Posts by IPman

Look! We have direct fibre connection too, wails Google Cloud

Google owns Android

I think most people are being very shortsighted.

Owning an OS which will be used in pretty much every mobile device &service in the world as well as a productivity suite Google Apps give Google a different advantage that neither AWS or Azure have.

While i don't dispute that AWS and Azure are ahead of the game (for now), i would never count out Google who have so much money that it will be a three horse race between them, Amazon & Microsoft.

With Android being embedded into multiple facets of life from cars to banking terminals/kiosks (and loads more too) as well as Google now about to acquire HTC, i see that Google are moving in a different direction.

Virtual Reality will also enable Google to deliver to devices (HTC ones) and ensure smooth compatibility.

AWS bought Wholefoods as these guys know that they need to take a different approach rather than just selling servers/storage etc.

The game is changing and the market is still in its embryo stage and i expect Google to be right up there.

PS - I do not work for Google and i am not a Google fanboy!

AWS has made VMware the Airbnb of the cloud

Layers of Complexity

While on paper it make sense to move from On-Premise to Cloud, in the REAL world the complexity that is involved is too great for it to happen overnight.

These large businesses are riddled with so much complexity that they have to migrate in stages over years so you'll see the Hybrid Cloud that will be around for the next 5-10 years.

Microsoft (i hate to say it) have a headstart as everyone uses their solution already but even they have issues. Try moving from from AD/Exchange to Office365 adds significant administrative burden and breaks many security and compliance processes.

It's not as easy as one may think!

Is a $14,000 phone really the price of privacy?

Load of Hot Air

To enable and end to end encrypted communication, the other user being communicated too must have the same capabilities. Pretty simple that some doughnuts will buy this thinking everyone they communicate with will be done in secret.

Another point, not being open means that backdoors can be implemented into the hardware or software layer.