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I went to a blog and a hockey game broke out.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

I am a huge fan of comments in blogs.  If you are too, then this one is a doozie.  Barry Lynn CEO of 3Tera is really funny guy.  Oh yea and he has a pretty cool product.
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Botchanmics: The Dimmer Switch

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

We were able to catch up with Botchagalupe, the international IT man of mystery, and pin him down long enouth to get his thoughts about whats going in IT.
Johnmwillis: Hello, Botchagalupe, its good to have you back again.
Botchagalupe: Yea, yeah, sure, sure.
Johnmwillis: What have you been up to?
Botchagalupe: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive […]

Do we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

It is my belief that what we today call the “cloud” will really just evolve into a complex IT infrastructure of the future, and in the end, will just be referred to as infrastructure. There is no doubt the traditional IT landscape of the last 20 years is going through a substantial transformation on […]

Bridging The Clouds

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Hmmmm… is this true?
Armijo says that several small cloud-computing firms including Elastra and Rightscale are already on board with 3Tera’s standards group.
Bridging The Clouds

Is Everyone an aaS?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

There has been a lot of name calling among cloud vendors and a lot of cloud vendors have been calling other vendors aaSs by defining them into three specific categories. They seem to be making an aaS of themselves in the process. In my opinion trying to fit all cloud vendors […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #4

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

In this forth podcast I have a discussion with Peter Nickolov President, COO and CTO of 3Tera and Bert Armijo, Senior VP of Sales, Marketing and Product Management at 3Tera. I have been a huge fan of 3Tera for quite a while now. In fact I have even been accused of […]

That’s What I’m Talking About - 3Tera

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Virtualization holds lots of promise: Move your physical machines to virtual ones, and you’ll reclaim capacity at the same time that you make operations easier. But applications seldom run on one machine; instead they’re a combination of servers, switches and routers. 3Tera’s recently announced product road map may let companies provision whole data centers atop […]

Cloud Computing With Python: Google App Engine and Amazon

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I will be giving my “Cloud Talk” presentation at the May The Atlanta Python Meetup Group. The esteemed “Python Guru” Noah Gift will first be giving a presentation on “Using Google Engine To Write Python Web Applications”. Who better to get a first glimpse of the new Google App Engine offering from. […]

AWSome Atlanta Cloud Technology User’s Group

Friday, April 11th, 2008

We have a venue for the AWSome Atlanta Cloud Technology User’s Group. The Georgia Tech ATDC has graciously allowed us to use their facilities for out meetings.

Agenda:
7:00 Introduction and Group Charter
7:15 David Wright of JungleDisk - AWS and JungleDisk Overview
8:00 Break
8:15 John Willis - Demystifying Clouds (Cloud Talk)
Discussions about the new […]

Cloud Pontification #2

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Smoothspan is a SaaS blogger I follow on my reader. He often has good articles on SaaS and stuff, but today, I think he went out on a limb and got a little “cloudy” on his latest topic. See his blog and my comments.
Hurry, The Cloud Computing Platform Opportunity is Perishable!

If I Were a CTO at IBM - “Blue Cloud Stuff”

Friday, April 4th, 2008

IBM CTO Presentation in Chicago

I would want to know that Amazon does more than just sell books.
I would have heard of 3Tera.
I would know who Cassatt is.
I would read this article before I mention the Google/IBM Cloud initiative. This way I wouldn’t be confused between the difference between Cloud servers and […]

Drupal Barcamp NYC - Podcast #1 Cloud Talk Presentation

Monday, March 31st, 2008

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How long would it take you to implement this architecture?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Elastra - Another Cloud Provider

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Elastra Cloud Server
I spoke to the founder of Elastra, Kirill Sheynkman, last week about his new cloud offering, “Elastra Cloud Server”. The Elastra Cloud Server is what I call a “Level 1 Cloud” that is designed to run on top of Amazon’s EC2. Due to their well-designed architecture, however, they have basically positioned themselves to […]

Cloud Talk Wiki

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

It was only a matter of time before some opportunistic person created a Cloud Wiki. Oh, that dude was me. The Wiki is actually running on a 3Tera grid however due to magical nature of clouds this doesn’t really matter. Hopefully this week I will be able to write a blog atricle […]

Is IBM’s Blue Cloud a Cloud?

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Last year IBM announced their Blue Cloud. Since then a few of their Blue Clouds have showed up around the world. A few months ago IBM announced a Blue Cloud in Wuxi China and today they announced another one in Dublin. The question is, are these really clouds or just steroid […]

Two Primary Factors of a Perfect Cloud

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Abstraction of the hardware from the service

Abstraction of the software from the service

Cloud Movements

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Let’s have a cloud party 2009. Here is a list of my predictions.

Mosso adds a new service that is 3Tera like and now Rackspace has the holy trinity of hosting providers.
3Tera and Rackspace partner.
Rightscale becomes cloud agnostic by building their own grid framework.
Rightscale is acquired by a big player (e.g. Sun).
IBM waits for someone […]

Cloud Pontification

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

James Governor of Redmonk wrote a blog article called “15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing” and as much as I like these guys I believe his article was way off the mark. First off as I have been saying, some cloud definitions need to be drawn before you talk about clouds otherwise the […]

Cloud Talk

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

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