The technology storms continue to form and merge. The Internet of Things, software-defined everything, blockchain, and cloud computing are combining and recombining in new ways. To provide and consume trusted and resilient services, solutions must be defined and designed to accommodate failure. Although the term resiliency is seldom defined, clarified, or used in a meaningful context, it is often used to describe applications. However, this vagueness leads to rework, cost overrun, frustration, and most importantly, solutions that do not provide the resilience required by the...
Steven Woodward
Cloud Perspectives
CEO of Ottawa-based Cloud Perspectives, Steven Woodward is a member of the National Institute of Standards for Technology cloud computing working groups, a co-leader of the Cloud Audit and Cloud Carrier sub-groups, and contributor to the Standards, Reference Architecture, SLAs, Security, Broker, and Services topic areas. Steven fosters collaboration and cooperation within and between standards groups (ISO/IEC, IEEE, IFPUG, TMFORUM, ITU-T, CSA, OMG) to clarify and quantify realistic expectations for cloud computing and the controls that build trust. Contact Steven at Cloud Perspectives, [email protected], and on Twitter @woodwardsystems or @cloudsimplify.