Should You Train To Be A Cloud Computing Professional? – Part 1 Growing up as a high school student in the late 90s, I became interested in computers, and for the first time, considered making a career out of it. When I graduated high school in 2000, the love for computers hadn’t died down and I resolved to study computer engineering. Of course, that was the heyday of the dotcom boom, when any company with the word “technology” in its name had no problem getting millions of dollars in financing. We all know how it ended. The dotcom boom, now
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Packaging Cloud Computing as an Investment – First Cloud Computing ETF Launched A technology can be considered to have truly “arrived”, become part of everyday life, when an investment vehicle is dedicated solely to it. Cloud computing now enjoys that privilege, with the launch of the first cloud computing ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) on NASDAQ last Wednesday. An ETF is an investment vehicle that holds assets such as stocks, commodities, or bonds, and trades close to its net asset value over the course of the trading day, usually tracking an index. First Trust Advisors L.P., a privately owned Illinois-based investment
Should You Be Concerned? A List of Recent Cloud Computing Failures – I “One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day.” – Aristotle (384BC – 322BC), Greek philosopher. Now, Aristotle’s sayings are as relevant today as they were 2400 years ago. In case you differ, consider what he had to say about the youth of his age: “The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us
Breakout Quarter for Cloud Computing Stocks Some time back I had discussed the possibility of cloud computing stocks being valued more than they are worth (See: Are Cloud Computing Stocks Overvalued?). While, personally speaking, I believe that cloud computing stocks have more solidity than their vaporous counterparts during the Dotcom Bubble, I did recommend caution. Perhaps this quarter will be a good time to examine the fundamentals of cloud computing stocks, considering they have had the best time in the markets in recent times. A lot of the exuberance was fueled by consolidation in the space, with some bigger companies
How to Avoid a Cloud Computing Gold Rush “The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.” – Will Hobbs, American writer. As you can see, equating computing with prospecting is not a new analogy. For those of you whose histories are a bit rusty, the Gold Rush was a manmade phenomenon in the 19th century when 300,000 people rushed to California to search for gold. While some did strike it rich, most returned empty-handed. The Gold Rush had both a positive and negative impact on American history. On the negative, the
Are Cloud Computing Stocks Overvalued? “It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.” – Warren Buffett, legendary American investor and one of the richest men in the world. If one were looking for lessons in creating wealth in the stock market, there can be no better teacher than Warren Buffett. In fact, I would venture that he is the guru of value investing, a an investment paradigm that derives from the ideas on investment and speculation that Ben Graham and David Dodd derived while at Columbia Business School. Not surprisingly, Buffett was one of
