@botchagalupe, @krisbuytaert, me and the Kwak!!

I am a lucky chap.

I received this e-mail on Friday saying that “@botchagalupe is in town, feel like a beer together?”.

Botchagalupe aka John Willis is one of the best known Cloud evangelists and a legend in System Management; he is actually “involved” with Canonical and spreading the word on agility and life-cycle management on Cloud. You can read his thoughts on his well known blog.

The e-mail came from Kris Buytaert: Mr. “Everything is a freaking DNS problem“. If you don’t get it (the DNS, I mean) you are a candidate for one of his T-Shirts but you actually might not want it
Besides his passion for printed textiles, he is an Open Source specialist that has been giving a strong contribution to the community by maintaining several projects, among them OpenMosix. Kris is an Inuit and is deeply involved in DevOps. Read his blog here.

The mentioned town is Antwerp which happens to be in Belgium: a land that holds the record for the number of beer sorts (around 9.000).

 (Cloud + Vision)/Beer = entropic talking

So, while the Kwak came and went, we had quite an interesting time jumping on diverse topics (for the record: I carefully kept away from technicalities, I don’t want Kris to produce a Cloud T-shirt just for me!).
Of the many views we shared there is one on where I want to risk my neck and tell world+dog what I think:

I believe the majority of the IT community does not fully understand what revolution Cloud Computing is bringing, thus far.

John is pretty sharp in defining Cloud Computing: “It’s an operational model“.

Amen… I agree.

And I would like to add: “Cloud Computing is not relevant, per se!, What is really relevant is the whole new class of problems and solutions that are to be introduced adopting this operational model“.

The scale of Cloud Computing demands much more than what we are used to when we talk about security, efficient resource management, application architectures.

Thanks God, implementing Cloud Computing is a matter either of failing or being successful with the incentive of having results exposed to public (or private) “ludibrium”. The outcome might be a good kind of pressure: stimulus to innovation and consistency.

As I see it: Cloud Computing imposes maturity by visibility. That’s the real revolution.

Oh, and maturity might become the next big viral infection; every CIO of this planet could become a potential target as soon as an efficient and maintainable operational model becomes ubiquitous, measurable and, most of all, commoditized.

At the end Cloud Computing might be as relevant as silicon: everywhere but totally hidden before our eyes while maturity, Oh gosh!! That would keep knocking at the door of every IT shop.

Keep playing with PaaS, SaaS, IaaS or whatever aaS you might think of: it’s an operational model.

And, most of the time, it’s a freaking DNS problem