Comments on: The 2008 Cloudies Awards

By: Frank Cohen

Frank Cohen — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:23:17 +0000

May I nominate my company’s own PushToTest TestMaker product for your consideration. Imagine running a load and performance test in a cloud environment at up to a million virtual users for less than $1000. Details at http://www.pushtotest.com/products/cloudtesting

-Frank

By: Jeff Darcy

Jeff Darcy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:01:29 +0000

I'd like to nominate James Hamilton and Jonathan Ellis for best cloud blogger. I think the Dynamo is Flawed debate also deserves some consideration for best cloud argument. Lots of good stuff came out of that one IMO.

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By: The GigaSpaces Blog » Blog Archives » Best Cloud Application Providers

The GigaSpaces Blog » Blog Archives » Best Cloud Application Providers — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:38:04 +0000

[...] This week i got a nice xMas surprise hearing that we won the Best Cloud Application Provider category in the The 2008 Cloudies Awards [...]

By: Kevin Jackson

Kevin Jackson — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:54:59 +0000

Maybe you can consider some industry specific awards next year

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:33:44 +0000

Have you checked out Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud? I do not think I have seen them mentioned anywhere on your site. Worth reviewing IMHO.

By: John

John — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:59:33 +0000

Thanks Matt

Are you going to be able to make it to our cloud camp Atlanta? I received a lot of great feedback from your last visit.

By: Matt Small

Matt Small — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:29:21 +0000

I’ll vote for John too! Keep up the good work! I’ll echo James on the droplets comments.

Great list and thank you for the mentions of RightScale.

By: Nati Shalom

Nati Shalom — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:39:23 +0000

+1 to Geva comment:

“Let me add another one:
Best Cloud Blogger
John M. Willis”

Thanks anyway for nominating GigaSpaces as Best Cloud Application Providers. Next year i’ll try to get to the CTO nomination short list:)

For those not familiar with GigaSpaces you can view the presentation i gave cloud event in Tel Aviv here entitled “Getting ready for the cloud where i ran an online demonstrate auto-scaling and self healing.

http://tinyurl.com/giga-getting-ready-for-cloud

The slides are avliable here:
http://tinyurl.com/giga-getting-ready-4cloud-ppt

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:28:21 +0000

Hey John,

Thanks for the consideration! A quick correction: the name of our company is “Cloudera”, not “CloudERA”. Look forward to the, er, cloud era.

Regards,
Jeff