I've been doing light updates to a bunch of my older research, but I have a totally new assessment of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: gartner.com/document/52076… (Gartner paywall). Use cases evaluated are public, private, multicloud, sovereign, and hybrid cloud -- and edge.

I am delighted to say that my 2nd grader ran Grant Howitt's Honey Heist at his school tabletop games club today and it was apparently awesome. HoneyCon was a faerie convention. First foray GMing something other than D&D. I had to black out the profanity on his game printout though.

This is simultaneously the funniest and saddest thing I've read today: Men hit on scheduling email bot. askamanager.org/2024/01/men-ar…

That didn’t take long

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Oh, right, the URL would probably help. github.com/DuckbillGroup/…

I agree with Corey Quinn's analysis. (But the inquiries from enterprises doing 'something psychotic with thousands of IPs' started yesterday...)

Very interesting thread, although I suspect some of the disconnect here is what constitutes an outage acknowledged on a status page vs what is 'just' a higher than typical error rate that hasn't yet violated an internal SLO.

Crazy new world we live in. Good reminder that having anything important remotely controlled is a bad idea. (Sources are in thread and here: medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-…)

Amazon is the same firm that remotely deleted books off of Kindles. Weekly reminder not to depend on the cloud!

said this a bunch recently, but we need a word that means this is equal parts unbelievable and totally believable

Is wreckage displayed on Google Cloud service health page real? If so, how has 'water flooded our Paris DC' turned into 'many services in South Carolina are impacted'? (Follow-on effects on the rest of Europe more readily imaginable if still surprising.)

New research from me (Gartner paywall): 'Quick Answer: How Should Executive Leaders Plan for Cloud Outages?' - gtnr.it/41EvTRW

After twenty years, it's time... new profile pic.

New research from me (yes, yet another note): 'Cloud Governance Best Practices: Managing Vendor Lock-In Risks in Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS'. Gartner for Technical Professionals paywall -gtnr.it/3GEtMW4

New research from me: 'Introducing the 'You Build It, You Run It' Modern Operations Pattern' (Gartner paywall: gtnr.it/3KO5Fqu)

New blog post addressing the reasons that many organizations don't need 'FinOps' per se. cloudpundit.com/2023/03/31/fin…

New research from me (with banking analyst Vittorio D'Orazio): 'Top Practices for Bank CIOs: Managing Cloud Concentration Risk' (Gartner paywall - gartner.com/document/42194…)

CloudPunditry weekly cloud computing links: paper.li/cloudpundit/14… #iaas #availabilityzones

There's a direct parallel between the way customers want to use cost info and sustainability metrics. cloudpundit.com/2023/03/13/gre…

More new research from me: 'Cloud Governance Best Practices: How to Create a Cloud Adoption Policy' (gartner.com/document/41657…). Gartner for Technical Professionals doc - paywalled. Covers aligning your cloud strategy with your decision rubric for what solutions go to the cloud.

New research from me: 'Quick Answer: How Do I Obtain Isolated Private Cloud Services?' (Gartner paywall: gartner.com/document/41621…) - public cloud equivalent services on-premises when you need to be able to disconnect.