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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 […]
I Don’t Know About You, But This Guy Gives Me The Willies
Thursday, April 10th, 2008viewNode(”a0e22b02d699b”,{ width: 425,height: 274});
However, I do like the tour of Rackspace.
Matching the Customer With the Right Cloud (Part 1)
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Previously, 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, 2008I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)
Cloud Movements
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Let’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, 2008James 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 […]
Cloud Talk
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Enterprise Beware!
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008There was an interesting article yesterday in SearchDataCenter.com about how Motorola is using Splunk to troubleshoot IT management problems. Enterprise Search technologies are being used more and more by large customers to apply Google-like search technology to traditional data center analytics. Companies like Coke and Comcast are using Enterprise Search technologies to […]
What is a Cloud
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Here 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 […]
Demystifying Clouds
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
force ma·jeure - noun Etymology: French, superior force
Date: 1883 1 : superior or irresistible force 2 : an event or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled — compare act of god
I’ll admit it: I am caught up in the cloud hype. The caveat, however, is that I truly believe that this […]
