Advice on Clouds
Ok, need some help here. I picked up some new job responsibilities in the cloud space this past week and thought I would ask for some help with two things-
1) Am looking for some good people with a background in cloud architectures (cloud computing and cloud-based service offerings like SaaS models and such) and a solid understanding of network architectures that have strong presentation skills and can also help write on this blog, so also need good written communication skills. (or at least be able to use spell-check and thus do a better job than I do at this)
2) And this is the fun/challenging part- what should Cisco do in the cloud market? Seriously, play John Chambers for a day. What do you think Cisco’s role is and what should it be? I know Allan Leinwand who often writes for GigaOm has some thoughts, I am sure Rich Miller has a few and James Urquhart wrote some solid pieces with his perspective. Join the conversation, and tell us what we need to be building, what M&A we should pursue (if any), and what role you see the network and Cisco playing in the evolving cloud environment.
Last thought, and a bit of a test of a theory- can cloud computing models be ad-supported?
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Posted by Douglas Gourlay at 03:09AM PST
, but my contribution to the blogosphere on clouds is here 
Douglas Gourlay Sep 16, 2008
and to kickstart the conversation I could throw out that I think we need to work, as part of the broader IT industry, to figure out how to make workload ‘containers’ portable, between providers and ensure data integrity an prevent data loss and leakage while synchronizing transaction state, storage state, and addressing across a federated network of autonomous systems between enterprises and service providers…