My first thought was "is there any actual content in among the buzzwords". My second thought was "what's he trying to sell". Apparently, cloudability is a service that allows you to track your "cloud" spending, which seems totally useless to me. I mean, why should I track SaaS and Amazon S3 backups in the same category, but leave off $1000 Yourkit license in some other category?
One Tool to Rule them All would be nice, but at the moment we're focusing on a fairly specific niche to address real problems we've personally encountered at companies. We're not the only ones who've had these sorts of problems either:
The key thing here is really to address two things that seem to come up a lot:
1) Cost items that can vary considerably and where a mistake -- code bug, forgetfulness, sloppiness, whatever -- can leave you with serious sticker shock. (At one company we were at, an engineer spun up a couple hundred EC2 instances for a map/reduce job and forgot about them, racking up an extra $100,000 that month.)
2) Cost items that don't vary much but which have such a low friction to signing up that you wind up with bunches of accounts across an organization without realizing it.
Finance departments already tend to have the software purchase cycle fairly well managed, but SaaS/PaaS/IaaS doesn't fit nicely into those procedures. Because of that, we're building our tools to play nice with others, so whether your finance group is managing things in Excel or you have a fancy SAP based system we're working to make it easier to get this data where it needs to be.
