The Cloud, The Fast Food Experience of IT, Users are tired of the waiting, and waiting, and waiting

The Cloud is old, yet new.  I have a good friend who was smart enough to join AWS in 2006, close to the beginning.  Hey, that was almost exactly 8 years ago.  So, Cloud is old.  But, it is still new in IT years for many even though it is popular.  What is behind the popularity of the cloud?  OMG you could go on and on, and it is so confusing.

How about this?  The Cloud is the Fast Food Experience of IT.

:  of, relating to, or specializing in food that can be prepared and served quickly <a fast–food restaurant>
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:  designed for ready availability, use, or consumption and with little consideration given to quality or significance <fast–food TV programming>

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Fast food is the term given to food that is prepared and served very quickly, first popularized in the 1950s in the United States. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a packaged form for take-out/take-away.

IT used to be the in-house experience.  Collecting requirements.  Asking everyone what they want to eat.  Prepare a menu.  Discuss the menu.  Make a shopping list.  Go to store.  Put everything away for cooking later.  Time goes on.  Get ready to prepare meal.  Realize you forgot something.  Go back to the store.  Running out time. Start cooking.  Family sees what you are cooking.  Makes new input.  Ewwhh, I don’t want to eat that.  Make a decision modify the meal plan or tell your family you will eat what is on the table.  You finish cooking.  But family is not all home.  Food sits in the oven, staying warm, degrading the quality and look.  Eventually everyone gets together to eat, and no one talks about how good the food is.  Clean the kitchen, put away the left overs.  Fast Food seems so much easier and the family gets what they want.  Never mind the cost, the quality is not as good or better depending on how good of a cook you are, the sugar, the fat and salt content are beyond your comprehension.  As your families health deteriorate and they gain many more pounds, they get used to fast food.

Fast Food is part of everyone’s diet.  The Cloud is too. 

 

 

Who has the best Quality Cloud?

The pricing of the cloud is highly competitive between Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, making the rest fall in line.  So you feel like you are getting good value, but are you getting good quality?

: how good or bad something is

: a characteristic or feature that someone or something has : something that can be noticed as a part of a person or thing

: a high level of value or excellence

McDonald’s rose through its belief in quality.  A consistent experience where your food tasted the same at any McDonald’s you went to.

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Consistency, quality and success

Ray Kroc opened the Des Plaines, Illinois restaurant in 1955, and with the first Golden Arches, launched a legendary brand. He saw the value of a restaurant system that could be famous for offering consistently prepared, quality food that tasted the same in every location, every time. In 1958, McDonald’s sold its 100 millionth burger.

One of the things that insiders know is the inconsistent qualities of the cloud between different locations.  Price is the same, but performance and quality is different.  This is shrugged off by most of the providers, but from a customer’s perspective it puts the ownership on you to measure the quality of the cloud.

Sounds wrong.

At some point someone is going to pull a Ray Kroc and focus on quality of the experience and win customers.

Why so much of Data Center News is boring, Missing Controversy

The Cannes Film Festival is known for controversy.

: argument that involves many people who strongly disagree about something : strong disagreement about something among a large group of people

Part of the reason why data center news is so boring is the lack of controversy.  As Mike Manos spoke 3 years ago at Uptime, the industry has too many donkeys which are the opposite of controversy.

This idea came to me, because one of the event folks for Gigaom reminded me in the panel discussion I am moderating is be controversial.  Why?  Because it is more interesting.

CNN posts on the 5 most controversial moments.

Cannes scandals: 5 most controversial film festival moments

By Mairi Mackay, for CNN
updated 11:51 AM EDT, Fri May 16, 2014
Starlet Simone Silva poses topless with idol Robert Mitchum in 1954.Starlet Simone Silva poses topless with idol Robert Mitchum in 1954.
 
 
 
 
 
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  • Since its inception, Cannes has attracted protests, spats and stunts
  • CNN looks at some of the greatest scandals to have rocked the festival
  • Among them: Danish director Lars von Trier says he is a Nazi and is banned
  • '50s starlet strips on beach and photographer breaks ankle in scrum for photos

(CNN) -- Cannes has been a hotbed of controversy since the beginning. The first festival, organized by the French in 1939 as a response to the Venice Film Festival -- then a vehicle for Nazi propaganda movies -- had to be canceled after it launched on the day WWII broke out.

 

Uptime Symposium's Cancellation of My Expo pass Confuses when Offered in the Past

I have gone to Uptime Symposium from 2008 until 2011, and in 2012 I was declined a media pass.  

Thanks so much for your interest again this year in attending Symposium. We have changed our policy in regards to press passes and will be limiting them to full-time (on-staff) journalists. I apologize for the inconvenience this may provide. You can still sign up for an Expo-only pass, which is free, which will grant you access to the exhibit hall, the Modular Data Center Campus, networking receptions and some sessions.

This year I signed up for the expo and my expo pass was cancelled because of a perceived conflict of interest.  In the invitation sent to me that many of you get there is wording that says if you are sponsoring or exhibiting you cannot get a expo pass.

The Complimentary Expo Hall Pass is not available if your company is sponsoring or exhibiting at Uptime Institute Symposium 2014.

Maybe on the invitations that get sent to me I’ll see this offer is not available to GreenM3 and Dave Ohara.  

I have received an amazing amount of support from my readers congratulating me on getting blacklisted by 451 Group. Thanks.

Now when people ask me whether I go to Uptime Symposium I can say I am blacklisted which ironically makes me stand out even more.  Thanks 451 Group, I take my exclusion as a compliment to being someone who stands out from the rest.

Off to 7x24 Exchange and Data Center Dynamics to see my data center friends which includes the event staff at 7x24 and DCD.

Is Rackspace up for sale?

Gigaom’s Barb Darrow posts on the difficulties Rackspace is having and how Morgan Stanley has stepped in to help.

Ruh-roh. Rackspace brings Morgan Stanley aboard to evaluate its options

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Rackspace President Taylor Rhodes
photo: Rackspace
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Faced with cut-throat pricing by cloud giants, you had to wonder how Rackspace, with its service-centric approach, could keep up.

And, Rackspace pops with news of who is looking to buy them.

Rackspace Pops On M&A Signal; AT&T, HP, Cisco Loom

By REINHARDT KRAUSE, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

 Posted 08:25 AM ET

 

 

AT&T, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), EMC (EMC), Cisco Systems and IBM loom as possible buyers of Rackspace Hosting (RAX), whose stock jumped late Thursday after the company said it had hired Morgan Stanley to explore strategic options, including a sale or partnership.

Rackspace's stock rose 14% before the market open in the stock market today. Shares in Rackspace popped 7% on Thursday — mostly on last-minute spike — after Bloomberg reported that Rackspace made a regulatory filing. Rackspace said in the filing that "multiple parties" had approached the company about a takeover or alliance.



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