Friday, July 30, 2010

Private vs Public clouds

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I thought this argument has been settled a long time ago, seems not. So, once more dear friends I will put on my best impression of a stuck...
Monday, July 26, 2010

OSCON 2010

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I thoroughly enjoyed the OSCON cloud summit and the talk that I gave at OSCON - the audiences were fantastic and the organisation was supe...
Monday, July 19, 2010

OpenStack

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There have been many attempts to create open source ecosystems around cloud computing over the last couple of years. Most of them have not ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

From Slime Mold to Neurons

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I wasn't going to write much about clouds, being focused on my new area of research but I could hardly let James' post go unchalle...
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

A life less cloudy

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For 18 months I ran the cloud strategy at Canonical. It was a real pleasure to work with some very amazing people and play a small part in ...
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...