Next time you’re talking to a software vendor who’s trumpeting that their software will run in the Cloud, ask them what their replication strategy is.

There will always be a Big Data category at the fringe of what our tools can currently handle.

There remains a gap between how businesses think about their processes and how techies think about building software to automate those processes.

If you treat Cloud resources like physical resources, then you've given up much of the flexibility the Cloud promises.

Have we really solved the coupling problem by moving to REST?

The marketplace is responsible for defining Cloud Service Models.

A backup is only as good as your ability to restore your data from the backup.

Combining  SSL and encrypted volumes can secure your Cloud data in motion and at rest, but it plug all the holes.

Not all software development project tasks must be done in a sequence. With Agile requirements prioritization you can complete the deliverables and tasks in order of importance.

With hypermedia-based discovery, any client can determine what any resource can do for it simply by following hyperlinks. The API is the bookmark, which never changes.