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these 3 rules are great, very good article

2010-07-28T13:09:47.053+01:00

these 3 rules are great, very good article

I do like how Google App Engine pretty much gets t...

2010-06-11T09:33:24.471+01:00

I do like how Google App Engine pretty much gets the first two down.

Happy Happy :) thanks nice article!

2010-05-09T16:20:22.139+01:00

Happy Happy :) thanks nice article!

thank you for this very interesting article

2010-04-22T22:30:52.279+01:00

thank you for this very interesting article

Thanks for an inspirational article. Just be happy...

2010-01-29T18:57:29.899Z

Thanks for an inspirational article. Just be happy and give your best to your love ones. You will attain the happiness.

Sounds interesting Stephen.

2008-12-01T09:35:00.000Z

Sounds interesting Stephen.

We should be on the vCloud list, just abck from a ...

2008-11-20T10:50:00.000Z

We should be on the vCloud list, just abck from a meeting last week in London with VMware VP. At the moment, we sell our cloud platform on a 'non utility' basis - ie: you buy a set amount of resources on a monthly basis, but can burst and scale rapidly on demand.

We are developing a new brand to offer comprehensive utility models for storage and compute at the moment.

Hi Gavin,First of all your talk at FOWA was awe-in...

2008-10-23T15:26:00.000+01:00

Hi Gavin,

First of all your talk at FOWA was awe-inspiring and it was a great shame that so many people missed it.

"the energy consumption of my usage of the cloud, and the cloud itself, is measured and accessible".

Absolutely - but I'll call this Rule 0 as it should come top of the list.

Hi Tom,Though everyone is trying to be cloudy, man...

2008-10-23T15:25:00.000+01:00

Hi Tom,

Though everyone is trying to be cloudy, many seem to fail to grasp the fundamental shift from a product to a service world.

Hence we're getting a lot of "my product as a service" ideas rather than the development of a true service economy. So interoperability / portability / utility pricing / marketplaces / transparency and so on are generally lacking from today's incarnation of the cloud.

As for 3D printing and the future commoditisation of the manufacturing process itself, well it's happening ... slowly.

Hi Leon, yep Google AppEngine gets close but then ...

2008-10-23T15:20:00.000+01:00

Hi Leon, yep Google AppEngine gets close but then it FAILS with bigTable.

and after my FOWA talk, can I add a requirement th...

2008-10-22T18:12:00.000+01:00

and after my FOWA talk, can I add a requirement that "the energy consumption of my usage of the cloud, and the cloud itself, is measured and accessible".

If we have an allocation of 2 tonnes per annum per person as a target, a billion PCs and servers are really going to add to the mess.

I love how the traditional hosting companies (such...

2008-10-21T10:09:00.000+01:00

I love how the traditional hosting companies (such as hosting365.com) are now starting to redefine themselves as cloud providers (which in many ways they are) but continuing to miss the whole utility pricing/self service nature of the term. Not that infrastructure providers are the only ones at it; Oracle's debut on EC2 also lacked that pay-as-you-go model so essential to cloud economics.

On another note, I see 3D printing is starting to take off, this time an Irish company using paper and glue to manufacture 3D models ...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2008/0704/1215054784815.html

Tom

I do like how Google App Engine pretty much gets t...

2008-10-21T09:57:00.000+01:00

I do like how Google App Engine pretty much gets the first two down.

Hi Stephen,That sounds like positive news. I didn'...

2008-10-21T09:28:00.000+01:00

Hi Stephen,

That sounds like positive news. I didn't see Hosting365 as part of the vCloud partner list. Do you know if there is a reason why they're not?

Ideally someone would put together a podcast of a consumer easily and simply switching between that environment and another provider (say xCalibre or Amazon) and back again and then to their own machines. Do you know if anyone has?

Obviously a live running transition rather than a shutdown process would be ideal but a simple demonstration of say a load balanced lamp stack with a clustered database server switching between environments would be good.

Also I couldn't find clear utility like pricing for the service, maybe I was looking in the wrong area. Any pointers would be useful.

Portability at the VM layer between different nodes should be relatively straightforward, the problem always seem to start when you include other framework elements - such as message systems, storage systems etc.

Infrastructure cloud providers like www.hosting365...

2008-10-21T07:44:00.000+01:00

Infrastructure cloud providers like www.hosting365.com meet all of those three rules.

By focussing on providing 'virtual hardware' powered by VMware, everything up to the entire VMware image is portable...