Clouds to the left of me and Jokers to the right
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Actually Canton is east of Acworth but it ruins the song title if I do it that way…
Learn how the City of Canton saved taxpayers’ money with Google Apps
Cloud Cafe #24 – Google App Engine
Monday, November 17th, 2008Last week we able to get Noah Gift, a local Python and GAE expert to give the Awsome group a presentation on Google App Engine. We were able to record the session here.
I think you will enjoy this podcast.
Listen to the Podcast Here
I wanted to add a special thanks to Florence Neal for the [...]
Google on ‘Myths’ of Cloud Computing
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Link via Data Center Knowledge
Blue Waters II
Monday, September 8th, 2008Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water.
Cuil is not as Cool as Google
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Some ex Google’rs have started a new search engine called cuil.com. A quick search, sorry for my vanity, of “john willis” does not render my ESM blog on “cuil”. However, those cool dudes at google.com have me as the third entry. Maybe I am old schuil, but for now I will stick with Google.
These Boys Know How to Have Fun!
Friday, July 25th, 2008Google App Engine PyAtl Hackathon
BUILD a speaker registration system, we can use to book speakers for PyATL, on GAE. The goal is to not leave until we have something useable, so if you feel like getting in on a fun community project this is your chance:
Perl on App Engine
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Google perl-appengine
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 [...]
