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TOP 25 CLOUD BLOGGERS
BEST CLOUD COMPUTING BLOGS AND NEWS SOURCES
cloudTP recommends you make the time to follow these authors:
- Jack of All Cloud: Guy Rosen. Terrific cloud market research and analysis.
- Software Insider: Self-described as the buy side advocate for enterprise apps strategies, vendor selection, & contract negotiations. Great content.
- Geva Perry's Thinking Out Cloud: Helpful cloud computing framework analysis
- Randy Bias' blog: A cloud strategist and founder of Cloudscaling, a boutique cloud strategy consulting services firm. Extremely knowledgeable on the space.
- Kamesh Pemmaraju's Leaders in the Cloud: Great research, writing, and insight. Large and mid-market enterprise success stories balanced with areas of concern for migrating to cloud solutions.
- Sam Johnston: Clearly knowledgeable person on the subject. Is focused more on the cloud industry as a whole and less on applications, implementation etc. A good writer and absolutely worth your time.
- CloudSecurity.org: Craig Balding makes understanding cloud security fun.
- James Hamilton's Perspective Blog: Great insight on the latest happenings at Amazon and Google.
- No More Servers: Rackspace's cloud marketing site. Thoughtful, positive postings on cloud and SaaS vendors. Great rebuttal to McKinsey report. If you need to sell cloud to your organization, this site will help.
- TechCrunchIT: Frequent, relevant cloud computing news with good insights. Not afraid to be critical where appropriate.
- Grid Designer's Blog: Consulting firm specializing exclusively in custom grid applications. Well-written, practical analysis of high-performance cloud computing vendors.
- CIO.com's Bernard Golden on Cloud and Virtualization: Well-written practical analysis of important cloud computing topics.
- InformationWeek on Cloud Computing: Online magazine paying major attention to our favorite subject.
- Roughtype : Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World From Edison to Google... widely considered to be the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement.
- Cloud Spunje: Great feed of only relevant cloud news with point-of-view. Cool photos with each article too.
- Udayan Banerjee's blog: Thoughtful point-of-view on how cloud requires a change in thinking.
- Cloud Computing Journal: Online magazine with insightful articles, especially on government cloud computing. Be aware that they are written by corporate authors and may have an agenda.
- Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect
- ENKI Blog: Cloud 101 lessons with Cloud 201 and 301 equivalent details.
- Chirag Mehta's Cloud Computing Blog: Architecture, strategy, design, and innovation ramblings.
- GigaOm's Infrastructure Blog
- William Vambenepe's blog: IT management in a changing IT world
- Appistry Blogs: At the convergence of Grid Computing, Virtualization and SOA
- Paul Miller on the interface between Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web, providing original insights to exploit the next wave as we approach the World Wide Database. Worthy.
- Mark Brennan on IT 2.0 Visionary views of the future of IT organizations. Less bureaucracy. More SaaS.
- The Cloud Computing Show: Podcasts with top cloud computing leaders hosted by Gary Orenstein
GOOD CLOUD COMPUTING BLOGS AND NEWS SOURCES
These provide some useful content, if you have the time to follow them.
- Cloud Ave: New Zealand cloud blog from multiple contributors. They find non-mainstream news and cover it well. Unfortunately, they provide too much content that isn't about cloud stuff. They need better focus.
- James Urquhart's The Wisdom of Clouds : Good insights on IT and business organizational change coming from cloud computing.
- Jian Zhen's and Michael Mucha's cloudfeed.net: An automated feed of cloud computing and SaaS related stories. All the great, good, mediocre, and bad articles about cloud computing in one place!
- Google Alerts : Another way to receive emails or a feed on all great, good, mediocre and bad recent news on "Cloud Computing".
- Cloud Navatar:Navatar's vendor blog. One of the better vendor blogs. They make a strong case for using their financial services vertical cloud SaaS solutions.
- Data Center Knowledge: Good writing about current cloud news stories.
- CloudEnterprise.info by Dmitry Sotnikov - Fresh, thoughtful and up-to-date. Asking many of the right questions about cloud computing. Entries about every 10 days. Worth staying in touch.
- ProductionScale: Kent Langley, Scalable Web Infrastructure and Technology Operations. Something for everyone on this site. Kent chronicles his experience building legalcloud.net and discusses cloud issues, architectures and products. Monthly postings.
- Nati Shalom's Blog: Real-time analytics in the cloud with technical detail. Middleware and distributed technologies are his specialty.
- Overcast: Conversations on Cloud Computing : Podcast series on cloud computing done in early 2009 by James Urquhart and Geva Perry. No new material since May, 2009.
- Reuven Cohen's ElasticVapor Blog. Relevant, but sometimes needs to think a bit more before writing.
- Tarry Singh's Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds From the Netherlands. Monthly postings to useful cloud news and some write-ups on cloud conferences.
- Dan Kusnetzky's & Paula Rooney's Virtually Speaking: Well-written, practical, high level point of view on what is happening in the cloud.
- Cloud Savvy": by Mark Hodapp. Insightful posts infrequently.
- Capitalizing on the Cloud: by MR Rangaswami, host of Cloud Summit Executive. Has a pretty good collection of opinion pieces on various aspects of cloud computing by various contributors. No updates in August and September 2009.
- Rightscale's vendor blog: Frequent posts. Nice summary and analysis of Amazon AWS ecosystem and Rightscale.
- SpoutingShite: Ross Cooney, MD of Rozmic. Cloud computing, email and spam. Notes and links to good presentation materials from Cloud Seminars and Cloud Camps in the UK.
- Phil Wainewright's IT management in a changing IT world: Very technical. Some great articles on PaaS.
- Nubeblog : El Blog en Español sobre Cloud Computing, Grid, Alta Disponibilidad y Escalabilidad.
- Joyent's Vendor Blog: Better than most vendor blogs. Practical webinars with cloud thought leaders and good technology posts.
- Barton's Blog: Barton is Dell's Cloud Computing Evangelist. Good content if you are interested in Dell.
- The Cloud Tutorial: has Cloud 101 content mixed in with some cloud stuff that is oversimplified and some that is overcomplicated. They have some good interviews with some key cloud leaders.
OTHER CLOUD COMPUTING BLOGS AND NEWS SOURCES
We are always looking for new sources to list them on this page. If you are an cloud computing blogger, please let us know!
- Toon Vanagt's virtualization.com/ Daily links to virtualization news without point of view or commentary.
- Kunal Mittal Blog : Written by Kunal Mittal who is partnering with Bodhtree Consulting, a boutique consulting firm from Hyderabad, India to build a SaaS and Cloud Computing center of excellence. Light content, very broad topic areas (about 20% cloud). Very little new insight, just personal commentary.
- Cloud Computing and Enterprise IT : Written by Manjunath Gangadhar, Enterprise Architect. Some good material, but no updates since May. Some nice vendor-neutral graphics of technology stacks for clouds.
- dev2ops: By consultants specializing in open source, SaaS, e-commerce, and cloud automation. Nice article on how the role of system administrator will change with cloud.
- Cloud Musings: Kevin Jackson, Personal comments and insight on cloud computing and it relationship to net-centric warfare. Gov/DOD focused. Posts are mostly ads for upcoming conferences. Lots of Google ads and links to other blog sites.
- GoGrid Vendor Blog: Product and industry news related to Cloud Computing and GoGrid.
- High Scalability: Lots of talk. Needs more focus and practical advice.
- Elastic Server Blog: CohesiveFT/VPN-Cubed vendor blog mostly about their products.
- Bert Armijo's Head In The Clouds: 3tera vendor blog featuring 3tera announcements.
- Cloud Talk: John M Willis blog on IT management and Cloud technology and Cloud Cafe Podcasts: Seemed promising, but no posts from June-September, 2009 and no new cloud podcasts since January, 2009.
- Dell's Cloud Computing Blog, err Enterprise IT blog with a few wisps of cloud topics.
- SearchDataCenter.com’s Server Farming Blog: Some good needles in a haystack where you can fall fast asleep.
- On Cloud Computing: Poor English. Bad capitalization and grammar. VERY SEO-savvy. They know the terms to draw traffic. Their Top Cloud Computing Solutions people are looking for in 2009 Survey appears to have derived its results from the most frequently searched terms around "Cloud Computing". They do have a good feed of cloud-related news articles.
- CloudDB.info: by Lewis Cunningham. Infrequent postings on technical topics such as generating SSH keys by an Amazon zealot.
- News and Ideas about Cloud Computing: by Edward M. Goldberg. No posts from May-Oct 2009.
- Draw Cloud: No cloud drawings since spring, 2009.
- Markus Klems' Cloudy Times Blog: A few slightly funny cloud-related things once a month.
- Grid Gurus: Must be busy. Only one post in 2009.