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By
Tim Young
Is it just me, or is the cloud everywhere.
It wasn’t that long ago that talking about cloud computing was the domain of IT
conference sessions or the sorts of boring dinner conversations that would get
you kicked under the table by your spouse. Now the cloud is starring in
multi-million-dollar Microsoft ad campaigns and becoming pretty pervasive in
general speech.
Seeing this concept balloon like this is strange. I feel like one of those guys
who was a big fan of a band like Apples in Stereo in the early 1990s, and then
didn’t know what to do with themselves when songs by their favorite band popped
up in Pepsi commercials.
But despite the growing ubiquity of the cloud as a concept, there’s still an
awful lot of confusion about what the cloud is and when it’s useful.
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There’s still an awful lot of confusion about what the cloud is and when it’s useful. |
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In this issue of Pipeline, we take on the cloud. We explore the cloud a bit,
from the hurdles to cloud adoption to the growing use of the cloud to deliver
hosted OSS/BSS services. We hear from NPRG’s Ed Gubbins on what the cloud is,
and why it’s notable. We speak to AT&T VP of Cloud and Hosting Steve Caniano
about why the cloud is useful for big carriers, and how AT&T is developing its
cloud strategy. We also hear from Telcordia CTO Adan Pope on how the cloud is
growing and changing. In addition, we hear from the cloud dynamos at Parallels
about the cloud services opportunity as they see it.
In all that, we hope to parse out terms and send a little sunlight through the
“cloud”, which has proven to be a murky term, expanding to cover more than its
fair share. However, for as long as the forecast includes clouds, we’ll be
around to talk about the impact of the technology on the communications space.
Enjoy,Tim Young, Editor-in-Chief
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