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Cloud Cafe – Interop 2009 Discussions #4

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Last but certainly not least James Urquhart of Wisdom of Clouds and Cisco.

Cloud Cafe – Interop 2009 Discussions #3

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Introducing the suave and intelligent Randy Bias of CloudScaling.

Cloud Cafe – Interop 2009 Discussions #2

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Joe Weinman, Strategic Solution Sales, AT&T Signature Client Group, was my second victim.

Cloud Cafe – Interop 2009 Discussions #1

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

After my Interop session “Lots to Love, Less to Use: How Enterprises Can Embrace the Cloud” I sort of hit the jackpot. I was able round up an impressive group of cloud thought leaders for some one on one interviews. John Janakiraman, Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Skytap, was [...]

Amazon Cloud Big News

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources, starting with Amazon EC2. It provides customers with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns — including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. To use Amazon CloudWatch, simply select the Amazon EC2 instances [...]

Cloud Podcasts

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Here is a list of five of my podcasts, in order, that might serve as a good introduction and tutorial on the topic of “clouds”.
Cloud Cafe Podcast #30 -What is a Cloud from the Beginning

It only took 30 podcasts to figure out a way to get my favorate analyst, and IT management co host [...]

Into Thin Air

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

My IBM Pulse 2009 article has been published by SearchServerVirtualization.
IBM Blue Cloud: More than thin air

Stop Saying 3 Layer SPI, It’s Now 9 layers

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

IT Management and Cloud Blog January Roundup

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Blog Posts:

Unified Ontology of Cloud Computing

Cloud Camp Atlanta Recap

Oh No, Not another “What is a Cloud”

Introduction to Clouds

jcollectd – Java integration for collectd

Say it Ain’t Soa

How Eli Lilly Taps Into The Cloud

Alternate Cloud 20 List

Don’t shout at your JBOD it may hurt Dtrace’s ears

Who Coined The Phrase Cloud Computing?

A Breif History of IBM Cloud

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Google and the Wisdom of Clouds

Semantic Cloud Abstraction

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

This is a great start to unifying the cloud.  Check it out.
Semantic Cloud Abstraction

Unified Cloud Interface Web Site

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

@ruv has created a new site for the the unified cloud interface (UCI), Here is a blurb…
The unified cloud interface (UCI) or cloud broker will be composed of a semantic specification and a ontology. The ontology provides the actual model descriptions, while the specification defines the details for integration with other management models.
Unified [...]

Unified Ontology of Cloud Computing

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

There, I said it out loud.  Seems like many of the cloud experts are embroiled in a Arthurian quest to define the perfect taxonomy for cloud computing.  Personally, I’m happy with the original SPI model (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).  However, as I have stated many times, it is not a perfect definition.  Recently, David Linthicum wrote [...]

Atlanta Cloud Camp 1/20/09

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Everything is printed that needs to be printed. Everything is paid for that needs to be paid for. All we need now is a bunch of people to show up and talk about “Clouds.” Hope to see you all tomorrow night.
Cloud Camp Atlanta
View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: #ccatl)

Announcing Chef

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

With Chef, you can:

Manage your servers by writing code, not by running commands.
Integrate tightly with your applications, databases, LDAP directories, and more.
Easily configure applications that require knowledge about your entire infrastructure.

Looks like this could be a very interesting product.  It looks like they already have a working customer and it’s Engine Yard’s new Solo .. [...]

Cloud Cafe #30 What is a Cloud from the Beginning

Friday, January 9th, 2009

It only took 30 podcasts to figure out a way to get my favorate analyst, and IT management co host on my Cloud Cafe series.  Actually I wanted the 30th podcast to be special and I had this idea of doing a “What is a Cloud from the Beginning” a few weeks back.  At first [...]

Alternate Cloud 20 List

Monday, January 5th, 2009

In my humble opinion Nick Carr just got lucky. It’s all about timing. He just happened to be working on a book about Google at the same time Amazon was about to part the sea. He lifted an old cliched metaphor of the 19th century electricity [...]

Top 5 Cloud Cafe Podcasts in 2008

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Cloud Cafe #27 – What is a Cloud?
By John | November 24, 2008
Cloud Cafe Podcast #1 Cassatt

By John | April 4, 2008
Cloud Cafe Podcast #5 Elastra

By John | June 20, 2008
Cloud Cafe Podcast #4 3Tera

By John | June 15, 2008
Cloud Cafe Podcast #9 – Enomaly
By John | July 22, 2008

Who Coined The Phrase Cloud Computing?

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Chris Sears, one of Atlanta’s finer cloud enthusiasts has earned some battle scars on the forums discussing the topic of “Cloud Computing”.   I remember him once telling me that he had done some research on the original sighting of the phrase “Cloud Computing”.  So this afternoon when I posted a tweet asking the titled question [...]

Cloud Computing 102

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

This video says more about the value of cloud computing than I could do in about 20 blogs. Here are some of the key points I pulled from this clip:

Brink and Mortar you should be worried
Creating a business that has a virtual footprint
A real network doesn’t have any walls, it just has services and [...]

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