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Cloud Droplets #8 – The Emperor’s New Cloud

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Drop 8
Topics include:

Another contest – Free Coffe.
Speaking of the Abyss
The Emperor’s New Cloud
Puppet This
Puppet That

JungleDisk $500 to sale in 2 years

A list of Cloud Folk on Twitter

Have a nice day

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CloudDroplets #7 – We had to let Jenny go

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Drop 7
Topics include:

Jenny is AWOL and we gave Michelle some homework.
Stu Charlton (Elastra) upcoming questions
You’re on my fedora
Redmonk (@monkchips)
Cassatt
Appistry blogs
RiverMuse
Have a wonderful weekend

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CloudDroplets #6 – What they don’t teach you at Crotonville

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Drop 6
It’s Thursday … one more for the man.

Topics include:

Zydeco and Mocha
Hyperic HQ 4.0
The holy trinity of a software company
Cloud Expo
Controlling the Network

CohesiveFT/GigaSpaces Webinar
Carr, O’Reilly, and lawyers…
CouchDB

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CloudDroplets #5 – Where’s Jenny

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Drop 5
Back to the man’s place.

Topics include:

Working for the MAN.
Ylastic
The Valley v Hotlanta
Atlanta Startup Weekend
Twitpay
Google App Engine Ecosystem, Noah Gift
The Cisco “Nimbus 9000“
Windows AMI’s equal bad business
Fire at Five Guys.
HP, EDS, and SaaS

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CloudDroplets #3 – Open Source Clouds, SAP, and The Machine

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Drop 3
The first official CloudDroplets contest.  The first person who can tell me the approximate point in this podcast where my Venti becomes a Grande will win a Starbucks Gift card.
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CloudDoplets #2 – It’s All Good in Da Cloud

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Drop 2
This is my second attempt of dropping rain on the cloud-o-sphere.
Topics include:

My wife took the good car today.
Economist articles about the cloud.
Highs and lows
Let it rise
Corporate IT
Lots-o-cores (Cloudracks and IBM P7 racks.)
Amazon wish list.
Cascading v Hadoop
Divvs
On Demand IT management and the Cloud.  See Mailtrust example.

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CloudDroplets

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Drop 1
For the rest of the year I am working for the man… Hence, I have a 1 hour commute every morning. I am going to try and make good use of my time by recording short Cloud briefings each morning reviewing any relevant cloud news in the cloud-o-Sphere. This is my [...]