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Cloud Droplet #100 – Side One of DNS 2.0

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Drop #100
I put a dollar in one of those change machines.  Nothing changed.  ~George Carlin

Citrix to Take on VMware in the Cloud
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google’s electricity bill? – Hardware
Rumor Patrol: HP May Buy Sun Hardware? « Data Center Knowledge
ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: [...]

Cloud Droplet #98 Good Will VPC

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Drop #98

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Marshall Field

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Rackspace Getting Ready To Take On Amazon | CloudAve
Enterprises Embracing Cloud Computing, F5 Survey Says
The Xen 4.0 roadmap emerges | virtualization.info
NoSQLEast Oct 28-30

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Cloud Droplet #95 Virtualization is So Money

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Drop #95
Lack of mney is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw

Amazon Web Services Blog: Adding the Export to AWS Import/Export
VMware: The Console: Mobile Phones – The Next Frontier
Zendesk, the help desk that sits in the cloud, gets another boost | VentureBeat
Tr.im goes open source, avoids porn-redirection fate | VentureBeat
Rackspace: Shared Hosting on Borrowed [...]

Cloud Droplet #94 Botchagalupe Gets an iPhone is as Good as it Gets

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Drop #94

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

Amazon Web Services Blog: Adding the Export to AWS Import/Export
How Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon & Google Think About Big Data
Reconnoiter – Large-Scale Trending and Fault-Detection | High Scalability
Continuous Integration of the World | Agile 2009

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Cloud Droplet #93 Fenway Park and Infrastructure 2.0

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Drop #93

If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.
Yogi Berra

Virtualization’s Next Big Leap « ARCHIMEDIUS
Blog Joyent | New Joyent MySQL Solution is 3X Faster than Amazon EC2
Doug Cutting Moving On (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!)
Ignition Alley Coworking to Open in ATL September 1st! — TechDrawl
Eli Lilly, NASA Build Eucalyptus Clouds [...]

Cloud Droplet #92 Have You Ever Seen Healthcare Clouds?

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Drop #90

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no military son, son.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one, one.
John Fogerty

Awsome – Private Clouds
Mi-OSS – OSS and Clouds

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Cloud Droplet #90 – Big Data and The Summer Time Blues

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Drop #90

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Umberto Eco

Awsome – Private Clouds
Mi-OSS – OSS and Clouds

Supercomputer Boots 1 Million VMs « Data Center Knowledge
Canned Platypus » Blog Archive » Amazon vs. Rackspace vs. Flexiscale
osscomreview: HadoopDB, Hadoop + PostgreSQL
COBOL – Still doing the business
braindump: NOSQL debrief
Cloud [...]

Cloud Droplet #89 – CSA Cloud Security Symposium

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Drop #89

Obviously you’re not a golfer.
The Dude:

Cloud Interoperability
Does Interoperability Matter
What does Interoperability mean to me
Location control of virtual servers
What is the role of audit when administration is virtualized
Image management
Virtual images and random numbers
Micro Virtualization
Other really cool stuff

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Cloud Doplet #87 – Twitpocalypse Now

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Drop #86

“Charlie don’t surf!”
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

Conference Devopsdays 2009 – Agile Web
The ‘Cloud’ Is NOT Outsourcing | Cloudscaling
The Frog Who Desired a King
MVS/XA – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coming This September: Twitpocalypse Now
Data is not electricity
The Netflix Prize Buzzer-Beater
Splunk 4.0

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Cloud Droplet #83 Adam Jacob of Opscode and Chef

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Opscode and Chef – Listen here …