last year i spoke at the panorama capital cio summit. until early the morning of my presentation, i didn’t even know what i was going to discuss. i didn’t sleep well the night before and got out of bed before 6am realizing i had something to say about how standardization and adoption of ‘cloud’ stuff will be similar to what happened in networking.

focus on many aspects of cloud standardization has reached astonishing levels of confusion and vitriol, none of which seem warranted. in an effort to introduce a bit of perspective into the debate, i am posting my slides from that talk last year. enjoy.