Saturday, May 01, 2010

VMForce, Zimki and the cloud.

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Before discussing VMForce, I first want to remind people of the tale of Zimki. Zimki was one of the first platform as a service offerin...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Use cloud and get rid of your sysadmin.

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Following on from my Cloud Computing Myths post. The principle argument behind cloud getting rid of sysadmins is one of "pre-clou...
Friday, April 09, 2010

Common Cloud Myths

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Over the last three years, I've spent an increasingly disproportionate amount of my time dealing with cloud myths. I thought I'd cat...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Cloud computing made simple

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It has been a truly amazing year since we embarked on our "cloud" journey at Ubuntu, hence I thought I'd review some of the h...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Cloud rant

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For the last two posts, I've had a pop at the term "cloud" , I'd like to now explain my reasoning in more detail. Fir...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Is your cloud a poodle?

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Since we're fond of replacing meaningful concepts such as commoditisation, lifecycle, categorisation and computer utilities with bland ...
Friday, March 12, 2010

What is Cloud?

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Before we can discuss this term, a bit of history and background is needed. Activities All business activities undergo a lifecycle, they evo...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Mystic Me 3.0

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It's time for a spot of bleary eyed crystal ball gazing. Last year, my predictions were fairly reasonable with 7 hits covering the comm...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The king was in his counting house ...

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... handing out our money. This was the year that Mervyn King & Alistair Darling managed to spectacularly fritter away billions of ta...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Where is Amazon heading?

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There is something that I've always found confusing about Amazon's cloud strategy. The development of EC2 & S3 makes good s...

Mystic Meg Epic Fail

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I hate predictions. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the "oh, it's already happening but I'll pretend it's new...
Friday, December 11, 2009

Cloud Camp Frankfurt

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A few months ago I provided an introductory talk on cloud computing at Cloud Camp Frankfurt . I was asked to be vendor neutral, so it is lig...