Andy Mulholland

Andy Mulholland's CTO Blog ‘Complementary’ models are an integral part of Cloud Computing... I have wondered for most of the last couple of years just how long ‘free’, meaning paid for by advertising, services on the web could go on for, and with a recession looming this seems to be the time that this could get cut back. However when I look into this a little more carefully I find that my impression of ‘free’ as a business model supported by advertising is perhaps already out of date as the successful players have used ‘free’ to reach either ‘freemium’ or ‘complementary’ models. Even more interesting it would seem that the ‘complementary’ models are an integral part of Cloud Computing. Let’s start with ‘freemium’ as a business model, meaning give something away for free... (more)

Every C-Level Exec's New IT Dilemma. . ."Who Goes to Jail?"

The CIO has been living with the apparently unstoppable demand for more storage for quite a while, really since the Internet/World Wide Web introduced a whole new concept of "content." Recently American CEOs and CFOs have started to show an interest in this previously boring IT technology subject and it's discussed in quiet intense whispers. Put simply it's called the "Who goes to jail?" q... (more)

Cloud Computing Will Eventually Require Orchestration

Andy Mulholland's CTO Blog I have followed with interest a number of comments about the reliability of Cloud Computing, based on the actual, or perceived, problems with service from Google and Amazon. Of course there are some real incidents that have caused "out-rage" (my definition of the rage one experiences from a system ‘outage’), but are failures in ‘best endeavors’ mail services such... (more)