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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009An interview I did with Jim Ericson of Information Management…
You’ve built up quite a bit of content blogging about the cloud at your site johnmwillis.com in just a short time.
I’ve been doing IT work for 30 years, including a lot with IBM Tivoli, but I’ve been focused on the cloud stuff for two years. [...]
Top 10 Private Cloud Denial Statements
Saturday, September 12th, 2009What rubbish. Cloud computing propaganda!
Yeah, but I still don’t get it.
Cloud this and cloud that; Sounds like a mainframe to me.
Isn’t this the same thing as having your own data center?
That’s just plain old grid computing.
Doesn’t it have to connect to one of those puffy diagrams in order to be a cloud?
I thought it had [...]
Cloud Cafe #42 Infrastructure 2.0 With Greg Ness
Thursday, September 10th, 2009I had a great time doing this podcast. Greg Ness of Infoblox is a leader in the new Infrastructure 2.0 initiative. We talk about the network being the new frontier for data center automation and clouds.
Infrastructure and the Cambrian Explosion
Infrastructure 2.0
The shell game of virtualization
VLAN virtualization
Infrastructure 2.0 working Group
DNS 2.0
Quick overview of what Infoblox does.
Listen [...]
Cloud Computing – IASA Atlanta September 2009
Thursday, September 10th, 2009IASA Atlanta September 2009
View more presentations from Christopher Curtin.
Guest Blogging at Force of Good – Government’s Gone Cloud
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Last week the first sentence of an article in the InformationWeek periodical specifically targeted at IT employees of the U.S. Government read as follows:
‘The General Services Administration has issued a Request For Quotation for cloud storage, Web hosting, and virtual machine services.’
Read the complete post…
UPDATE: There is more to this story…
link here
UPDATE: and more [...]
Cloud Computing for Healthcare – Awsome Meeting 8/11/09
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Atlanta Cloud Users Group
View more presentations from botchagalupe.
Cloud Computing and Open Source
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Cloud Computing and Open Source
View more presentations from botchagalupe.
Using Chef for Automated Infrastructure in the Cloud
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Using Chef for Automated Infrastructure in the Cloud
View more presentations from Jesse Robbins.
Note: I am an adviser for Opscode.
Calculus Computing
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009Upcoming “Cloud” Speaking Engagements
Friday, July 24th, 2009Invitation Only: CSA Federal Cloud Security Symposium
McLean, VA
August 05, 2009
http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/
Mil-OSS Working Group
Atlanta, Ga
August 12-13, 2009
http://www.mil-oss.org/
Devoxx
Antwerp, Belgium
November 16-20, 2009
http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV09/Home
Java2Days Conference
Sofia, Bulgaria
October 8-9 , 2009
Enterprise Cloud Summit – Interop Next Week
Thursday, May 14th, 2009I will be moderating two sessions in Las Vegas for this years Interop conference (May 17-21 2009). The first session is called “Lots to Love, Less to Use: How Enterprises Can Embrace the Cloud” and the second session will be part of an all day “Enterprise Cloud Summit” workshop held in conjunction with the Interop [...]
Awsome This Tuesday Should Be Awesome
Sunday, March 8th, 2009If you are in the Atlanta area this Tuesday night (3/10/09) you might want to stop by and attend our Awsome meetup. We have two great presenters as follows:
7:00 Hadoop
Don Brown of TwitPay will be giving a presentation on Hadoop and Map Reduce. For those of you who missed Don’s presentation at Cloud Camp [...]
Free Cool Tools for Educators
Friday, March 6th, 2009I attended SIGCSE 2009 yesterday and I had a blast. My main interest was to cover the new Alice 3.0 upcoming release; however, I found my self meeting extremely interested educators working with distributed computing. I found that a lot of the educators didn’t know about some of the really cool free tools I have [...]
Cloud Cafe #31 – Opscode Introduces Chef
Friday, January 16th, 2009It was a busy day for Adam Jacob the CTO of the startup Opscode. He spent the day trying to push out the first release of an exciting new “Cloud Orchestration” product while fighting internet provider/bandwidth issues and pesty geeks like me. However, at the end f the day we got this fantastic [...]
EC2 Infrastructure
Monday, December 15th, 2008Very well documented post on the AWS infrastructure behind MondTouch’s wik.is. If you are a cloud junkie, it doesn’t get any better than this:
Read the complete article here…
How will CIOs deal with rogue cloud computing?
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008A wise business technology leader told us once that he treats every rogue Web application an employee brings in as a warning flag that the IT team isn’t meeting a need in some way, and isn’t communicating the value it brings in being part of the process. To be ready for the inevitable demands, IT [...]
Cloud computing to fuel open source explosion
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008“The more we move towards cloud computing, the more that rewards open source because the cloud software vendor can not afford to pay for software for say 25,000 server CPUs.
“They will go towards open source and in many cases self support. People can not afford to spend the money that would be necessary in the [...]
Will data integration be its Achilles Heel?
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Cloud Computing: Will data integration be its Achilles Heel?
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Why the Enterprise will use Open Source in the Cloud
Friday, December 5th, 2008The other day I attended an Amazon Web Service (Cloud) bootcamp. There were about twenty-five people attending the workshop and by my estimation at least a third of them were enterprise customers. During the break I was able to talk to a few of these “Brand” name enterprises about their plans for using the cloud. [...]
What Color is Your Cloud?
Monday, November 17th, 2008I’ll admit I have hated CA for as long as I can remember. At the first startup I ever worked at we used to have Mary Kay cosmetic like sessions with “Kill CA” painted in Pink blood all over our faces (not really, but close). Although, I have never worked for Tivoli [...]
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