The Diversity Blog – SaaS, Cloud & Business Strategy

It was past midnight when I found myself standing at the lounge window, watching a small machine quietly navigate the far corner of my orchard. I hadn’t asked it to do this. It had simply decided the grass needed cutting and got on with it. I stood there for longer than I’ll admit, and somewhere in that oddly peaceful moment, it struck me that this was exactly the kind of thi...

San Diego has a way of making things feel more consequential than they are. But standing in the conference hall this week, watching the FinOps Foundation announce the Tokenomics Foundation and unveil FOCUS 1.4, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something genuinely important was happening, and that not everyone in the room had clocked it yet.

Let’s be honest about somet...

I’ve spent 20 years working in a fairly arcane area, only to watch it become mainstream. When I first started out as an industry analyst covering cloud computing, the whole idea of cloud was a mystery to most people. I still remember being introduced to a notable New Zealand parliamentarian as a global cloud computing analyst. He looked at me with complete sincerity and asked...

The other day, I got into a situation where I pissed a bunch of people off. This is, of course, a not irregular occurrence, my ability to be outspoken is somewhat legendary. The combination of having strong opinions, a strong sense of social justice, and a very poor filter all conspire to make me the resident provocateur in many different setti...

Recently, I spent some time talking with some Government people in Wellington who are putting together a policy document on a new approach for cybersecurity within the context of New Zealand’s critical infrastructure. The thinking goes that in these ever-changing and high-risk environments, a more nuanced approach towards what our nations’ crown ...