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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Come on folks, it doesn’t get any better than this. I wonder what side of the fence these guys would have been on, in the forth century BC, when folks were trying to decide which god was pushing the sun. It seems like some of our current day oracle’s might be a tad [...]
Cloud Camp Brussels
Monday, October 27th, 2008It looks like I was able to talk my wife into letting me stay one more night in Europe. I am planning on attending the Cloud Camp in Brussels this week (Thursday, Oct. 30th in Brussels, Belgium). This will be my first Cloud Camp so I am pretty excited about attending. If are planning on [...]
IDC – Cloud Computing to Grow to $42 billion by 2012
Sunday, October 26th, 2008IDC Finds Cloud Computing Entering Period of Accelerating Adoption and Poised to Capture IT Spending Growth Over the Next Five Years
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Cloud Favorites
Monday, September 15th, 2008I put together a couple my more popular “Cloud” posts.
Demystifying Clouds
The Night the NYT Used Hadoop and EC2 to Convert 4TB’s
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)
Is Everyone an aaS?
Top 10 Enterprises in the Cloud
Top 10 Reasons for NOT Using a Cloud
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Top 10 Reasons for NOT Using a Cloud
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Today I realized that I have been kind of stubborn about opening up to the idea of not using a cloud (go figure!). When I read articles that ask the question, “Should the enterprise use the cloud?”, I typically get annoyed and respond with “It’s not a binary question.” Enterprises will [...]
Have you caught cloud fever yet?
Thursday, September 11th, 2008This what one of our new members at Tuesday’s Awsome meeting had to say:
Truly AWSome! This meetup group had the best bunch of cloud
computing folks who really knew the subject inside out. It was
a great discussion and even though I didn’t contribute much to
it by talking (I had never used Amazon EC2), it surely gave [...]
ELASTRA Delivers Support for Open Source Eucalyptus Platform
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008ELASTRA Delivers Cloud Portability With Support for Open Source Eucalyptus Platform
IBM to open Amazon EC2-style cloud service
Thursday, August 7th, 2008IBM to open Amazon EC2-style cloud service
IBM Fellow for Server Design, Jim Rymarczyk, told iTnews that Big Blue is getting so much interest in cloud computing services from customers that it is looking to take its Research Compute Cloud public to meet the demand.
How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World
Thursday, August 7th, 2008BusinessWeek: How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World
AT&T follows Google and IBM, unveils ‘cloud computing’
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008AT&T follows Google and IBM, unveils ‘cloud computing’
Rightscale making all the “Right” moves…
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008That was awful… However, they are making some really good partnerships.
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Rightscale Partners with EnterpriseDB for Powerful Cloud Management and Open Source Database for the Enterprise
Cloud Cafe Podcast #8 Animoto
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008In this podcast I was able to speak to another customer of the “cloud”. Brad Jefferson the CEO of Animoto shares some of his experiences and thoughts about the cloud. Animoto uses Rightscale as their cloud infrastructure partner. Brad discusses their infamous week where Animoto went from 25k [...]
Botchanmics: The Dimmer Switch
Saturday, July 12th, 2008We 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 [...]
Classification of Cloud Computing Stakeholders
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Some great diagrams that Identify some of the SaaS, PaaS, and PaaS players.
Classification of Cloud Computing Stakeholders
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HP Clouds – If IBM Can Do It Why Can’t We?
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Here’s the scenario: You are huge hardware/software vendor and you need to re-brand your traditional hardware, software, and professional services line. You go out and find a large gullible organization that has lot’s of cash and offer to sell them this new cloud thing. You tell them it is the latest [...]
Does a cloud have to have an API to be a cloud?
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008At this evenings Awsome meeting th question came up about “cloud” definitions. It was suggested that a cloud has to have an API to really be a cloud. Now I am not putting a stake in the ground just yet on this definition; however, it does raise an interesting question. From an IaaS point of [...]
Cloud Cafe Podcast #7
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008In this podcast I was able to speak to a customer of the “cloud”. Tony McCune of Digital Chalk shares some of his experiences and thoughts about the cloud. Digital Chalk has been an Amazon EC2/S3/SQS customer for over two years. We also talk about using a service buss architecture (ESB) for scaling in the [...]
Is Guitar Hero a Cloud? The Cloud Wars
Monday, July 7th, 2008The Cloud Wars
I was reading a recent post about the Merrill Lynch’s research note titled “The Cloud Wars: $100+ billion at stake” and it started me thinking about the cloud vs. IT infrastructure question again. As the cloud-o-sphere tries to define this “cloud” thing, myself included, it seems like the list [...]
A really good review of Structure08
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Cloud Computing’s Identity Crisis: Does a Definition Matter?
Another Cloudy Day in the Cloud-o-Sphere
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOM wrote a great though provoking article about the Enterprise and Clouds called “10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud“. However, some of her arguments, IMO, were a bit cloudy, As with most thought provoking blog articles the comments section usally yeild some of the bet disucssions. Here are [...]
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