utility cloud computing
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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Botchanomics and The Big Galupe
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008It’s been a while since we have been able to catch up with the international man of IT mystery, Botchagalupe. I was able to sit down with Botchagalupe to see what he has been up to lately.
Johnmwillis: Hello, Botchagalupe, its good to have you back again.
Botchagalupe: Yea, yeah, sure, sure.
Johnmwillis: The last time […]
Mosso Outage Today - Keeping it Real
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008This 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 […]
Oprah Needs a Cloud
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008The other night Oprah Winfrey’s Oprah.com New Earth Event had 500k simultaneous users with 242 Gbps bandwidth. It looks like they were not using a cloud. I heard from a little birdie that next time they will
UPDATE: Â It was not Oprah’s site that is getting the cloud it it is […]
February 2008 - Review Post
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Doug 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:
Level 2 Cloud Provider Matrix
Friday, February 15th, 2008Clouds to the left of me, Ruby to the right, Stuck in the middle
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Last night, I attended a local Ruby meeting here in Atlanta. Extremely nice group of people, and I look forward to attending more meetings in the future. I met some interning people, and one of them is the CEO of Morph, David Abramowski. David gave a presentation about the new Ruby […]
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 […]
IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray
Monday, February 11th, 2008IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray
5 reasons it might not be “Blue Skies” for IBM
Thursday, February 7th, 20085 REASONS IBM WILL HAVE POSITIVE CLOUDY SKY’S
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 […]
IT Management Podcast #004 - Cloud-crazy!
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008IT Management Podcast #004 - Cloud-crazy!
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What if I only had a hour to live?
Thursday, December 6th, 2007I was flipping channels this evening in my hotel room and heard a very touching story about a man who wrote a short Xen like essay about all the things he would do if he had only one hour to live. By the way, he dies shortly after completing the essay. Then, I started […]
The Skinny on Red Hat and EC2 Clouds
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007This week Red Hat made Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 available as Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud images. For the last few weeks we have been converting all of our web sites over to EC2 images. In fact we can spin a WordPress or Drupal site in less than 15 minutes. So last night […]
Let’s Party 2008 - Utility Cloud Computing
Monday, November 19th, 2007So if 2008 is the year of the utility cloud space computing then why don’t we play the “Gartner Predictions†game on 2008 possible cloud mergers? They never get their predictions right so why can’t we play? The assumption is that a “Tipping Point†has occurred with IBM’s announcement to compete with Amazon’s S3/EC2. […]
