Boxers or Briefs?
Friday, June 27th, 2008The Evil Genius of BMC (a.k.a. Marty McFly) called out Google yesterday on Twitter regarding their basic systems management principals and bad systems management practices. Not soon after the Evil Genius’ tweet, Heath Newburn from IBM Tivoli posted a quick tweet response. I’ll have to admit sometimes we “enterprise” boys […]
Puppet at Google
Sunday, June 15th, 2008I have been screaming to the IBM/Tivoli enterprise crowd about this tool for over a year now…
If it’s good enough for Google it’s probably good enough for you…
Puppet at Google - RedMonk Radio Episode 48
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Google Infrastructure (Two Big Words)
Friday, June 13th, 2008Google spotlights data center inner workings
Google fellow Jeff Dean turned a spotlight on some parts of the operation. Speaking to an overflowing crowd at the Google I/O conference here on Wednesday, Dean managed simultaneously to demystify Google a little while also showing just how exotic the company’s infrastructure really is.
Here are some more notes from […]
Biggest Under Reported Story: Google’s BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon’s SimpleDB
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Biggest Under Reported Story: Google’s BigTable Costs 10 Times Less than Amazon’s SimpleDB
Read the comments as well there is a lot of great additional info there.
Google App Engine Pricing
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Google App Engine Announces Pricing Plan, APIs, Open Access
Google and IBM - Keeping it Real
Monday, May 19th, 2008If you have been listening lately you would think that IBM and Google have been recently married. However, I would like to ask some simple questions…
How many Mainframes does Google have?
How many copies of AIX are running in those 1 million core Google data centers?
Does Google run Tivoli Provisioning Manager to provision their 1 […]
Amazon V Google (What Me Worry)
Thursday, April 17th, 2008No rest for the weary over at Amazon. Today they announced another huge feature. The are going to provide support for AWS. As far as I can tell they are pretty much ready to go prime time (i.e., out of Beta).
Here is a list of the recent annoucmenets for Amazon’s AWS:
Amazon Web […]
Salesforce.com Tried to Buy Zoho Before Google Deal
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Salesforce.com Tried to Buy Zoho Before Google Deal
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Google App Engine tanks Google’s (GOOG) stock price
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Google App Engine tanks Google’s (GOOG) stock price
An interesting perspective on the margins of clouds.
Cloud Computing With Python: Google App Engine and Amazon
Friday, April 11th, 2008I will be giving my “Cloud Talk” presentation at the May The Atlanta Python Meetup Group. The esteemed “Python Guru” Noah Gift will first be giving a presentation on “Using Google Engine To Write Python Web Applications”. Who better to get a first glimpse of the new Google App Engine offering from. […]
AWSome Atlanta Cloud Technology User’s Group
Friday, April 11th, 2008We have a venue for the AWSome Atlanta Cloud Technology User’s Group. The Georgia Tech ATDC has graciously allowed us to use their facilities for out meetings.
Agenda:
7:00 Introduction and Group Charter
7:15 David Wright of JungleDisk - AWS and JungleDisk Overview
8:00 Break
8:15 John Willis - Demystifying Clouds (Cloud Talk)
Discussions about the new […]
Google App Errors
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Anyone else getting a lot of Google App errors today?
Google
Error
Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.Please try again in 30 seconds.
Temporary Error (502)
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is […]
(Barack V Hillary) | (Amazon V Google)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Random Thoughts
Does your head hurt yet? Mine does. I am down in the hotel lobby this morning while the family sleeps in (spring break). CNN is blasting on the lobby TV “Barack vs. Hillary†stuff every ten seconds. I keep expecting to see a breaking Amazon vs. Google scroll on the bottom […]
Google Clouds Demystified?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Then I woke up!
However, after reading the blogoshphere this morning about Google’s App Engine offering, here are my two favorite posts…
App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google
Cloudy weather ahead…
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Cloud Pontification #2
Monday, April 7th, 2008Smoothspan is a SaaS blogger I follow on my reader. He often has good articles on SaaS and stuff, but today, I think he went out on a limb and got a little “cloudy” on his latest topic. See his blog and my comments.
Hurry, The Cloud Computing Platform Opportunity is Perishable!
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Today: Amazon Web Services Down Google Web Services Up
Monday, April 7th, 2008Looks lie EC2 went down today for about an hour, and this evening it looks like Google is going to announce its entry into the Web Services fray.
Amazon Web Services Gets AnotherHiccup
Major Google Announcement Monday Evening: Is It BigTable?
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Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Game on folks…
Techcrunh: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch. There are also rumors that press is being pre-briefed on the product, although we haven’t been contacted by Google. […]
What the FCC’s Auction Means
Monday, March 24th, 2008What the FCC’s Auction Means
A good wrap up on the 700-megahertz spectrum auction.
Verizon Wireless wins large chunk of 700MHz spectrum
Friday, March 21st, 2008Â Verizon Wireless wins large chunk of 700MHz spectrum
Looks like Verizon has won the coveted $4.7 billion bid for the C block in the recent FCC auction of the 700Mhz spectrum. Google also is a big winner in that they gave the FCC an insurance package that would guarantee a $4.6 billion reserve price if the […]
Trying to Figure Out How to Put a Google In Every Data Center
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Google No. 1 has required many years of work to get up and running, along with millions of dollars of equipment and countless hours of mental toil by some of the computer industry’s brainiest folks.
But Google No. 2 you might be able to build yourself in a spare weekend.
And then I woke Up
Trying to Figure […]
