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Does a Cloud Have to be a Grid?

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Honestly I am not sure.  Are Mosso and IBM’s Blue Cloud grids? My guess is no.  Therefore are they both still clouds.  I would say yes to the former and no the latter.
I have tried to avoid Dell’s Blog about cloud computing because I liken it to the “Fox in the Hen House.”   I am […]

Cloud Computing With Python: Google App Engine and Amazon

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I 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, 2008

We 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 […]

I Don’t Know About You, But This Guy Gives Me The Willies

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

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However, I do like the tour of Rackspace.

Drupal Barcamp NYC - Podcast #1 Cloud Talk Presentation

Monday, March 31st, 2008

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Matching the Customer With the Right Cloud (Part 1)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Previously, I created a “Cloud Vendors A to Z,” and I have received a little push back from some of my new Cloud friends (mostly vendors). I put a stake in the ground by categorizing cloud vendors as either level 1, level 2, or level 3. Although I am still refining my definitions, the bigger […]

Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)

Cloud Movements

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Let’s have a cloud party 2009. Here is a list of my predictions.

Mosso adds a new service that is 3Tera like and now Rackspace has the holy trinity of hosting providers.
3Tera and Rackspace partner.
Rightscale becomes cloud agnostic by building their own grid framework.
Rightscale is acquired by a big player (e.g. Sun).
IBM waits for someone […]

Cloud Pontification

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

James Governor of Redmonk wrote a blog article called “15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing” and as much as I like these guys I believe his article was way off the mark. First off as I have been saying, some cloud definitions need to be drawn before you talk about clouds otherwise the […]

Does Your Hosted Provider Give You This Kind of Elasticity?

Friday, March 14th, 2008

A little over a month ago I switched my blog site over from Amazon’s EC2 to Mosso.com in preparation of some viral activities I was planning. Some of those activities did hit and Mosso has supported my traffic fluctuations brilliantly. Even though Amazon uses “Elastic” as part of the EC2 name it really […]

More Mosso Virtualization Insights

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

More Mosso Virtualization Insights
A small glimpse into how Mosso might be working that voodoo that they do… (good stuff)…

Cloud Talk

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

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Mosso Outage Today - Keeping it Real

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

This blog site was down for about 20 minutes today.  It looks like Mosso lost a MySQL cluster this morning.  That was not cool.  Just keeping it real, I had Amazon EC2 for 90 days and I had zero outages.  However, I am still a fan of Mosso due to their ability to handle spikes […]

February 2008 - Review Post

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Doug McClure started doing an end month review and I think it is a great idea. In fact it is Doug who first tutored me on how to get my blog site started so it makes sense that I would continue to copy him. Here’s a quick look at Feb 08:

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Mosso Saves My Bacon!

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

A phrase that is used in the new SEO world is “Slashdotted,” which is also referred to as the Slashdot Effect. Last Thursday, the meta-blog site called Reddit somehow put my Top 10 Worst Captchas on its top 25 first page. By 9 am, I had 7k views on that one blog. […]

Look Mom, Two Nines - Amazon S3 Major Outage Today

Friday, February 15th, 2008

I guess it’s 99. today for Amazon S3 customers. Man do I have timing or what. We literally moved this blog site server off of AWS this week in preparation for our move over to Mosso this weekend. I have seen reports of AWS being impacted for at least two hours, and […]

Level 2 Cloud Provider Matrix

Friday, February 15th, 2008

What is a Cloud

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Here is my definition of the Holy Grail “Cloud”.
Primary Characteristics

It uses commodity-based hardware as its base. The hardware can be replaced anytime without affecting the cloud.
It uses a commodity-based software container system. For example, a service should be able to be pulled from one cloud provider to any other cloud provider with no effect […]

The Big Switch

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

No not that one. We are switching from Amazon’s EC2 over to Mosso. Lots o’ fun blogging adventures to follow.

IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray

Monday, February 11th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray

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