Tag: cloud computing
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RightScale Part 2: Why the cloud? Apple Fanboys and Server Suffrage
Tuesday I listened in on the RighScale webinar: How to Build Scalable Websites in the Cloud. This is part two of my thoughts and notes from the event. (Note: it doesn’t look like it’s been posted yet but it should be available here soon). As I discussed last time, RightScale acts as a management platform…
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RightScale part 1: Mickos joins and control moves up the stack
Yesterday I attended a webinar that RightScale put on entitled: How to Build Scalable Websites in the Cloud. It was basically a welcome to RightScale, welcome to the cloud presentation but overall interesting and credible. The presenters were their CEO, their head of marketing and a mini team of techies. Below is part one of…
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My Presentation and Interview from Cloud Camp
My blogging has been a bit anemic lately. We had our big Blueprint launch in the middle of last month accompanied by the post launch clean up of all the stuff I had designated as “get to it after the launch.” And then there was strep throat and visiting relatives…blah…blah..blah. So here I am back…
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Talkin’ to Mosso Co-founder, Todd Morey
Last year I did a podcast with Mosso (“The Rackspace Cloud”) co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Last Saturday at Cloud Camp Austin I caught up with the other co-counder of Mosso, Todd Morey to get his side of the story. Some of the topics Todd tackles: How Todd and Jonathan formed a good partnership, Todd on UI…
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Talking to Canonical’s KVM Kid — Dustin Kirkland
At Austin Cloud Camp on Saturday I ran into Ubuntu linux developer and Canonical employee, Dustin Kirkland. Dustin is on the server developer team at Canonical and, as he explains it, focuses on various aspects of virtualization, the plumbing layer below cloud computing. I grabbed Dustin for a few minutes and chatted with him about…
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Pics and Prose from Cloud Camp Austin ’09
This past Saturday, Cloud Camp Austin was held down on the UT campus. There was a very healthy turnout and a lot of great discussions were generated. Sequence of Events After opening salutations, camp got underway with a series of six five-minute lightening talks delivered by the camp’s gold sponsors. The Main Event From there,…
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Talking to Ubuntu’s Cloud Man
Today mark’s the release of Ubuntu 9.04, nee “Jaunty Jackalope,” and the debut of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud powered by Eucalyptus. To get some insight into the release and what it means, I grabbed some time with Simon Wardley of Canonical. Simon, who joined Canonical near the end of last year, is the person tasked…
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Lew Moorman and Robert Scoble of Rackspace
Last week Rackspace announced the appointment of Lew Moorman as president of Rackspace’s Cloud Computing Efforts. As luck would have it, Lew was attending Web 2.0 and I was able to grab a few minutes of his time to shoot a video. Not only that but as added bonus, recent Rackspace conscript Robert Scoble joined…
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Mark Shuttleworth dicusses the Cloud and Ubuntu
Last month Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, CEO of Cannonical Ltd and First African in Space, announced that Ubuntu was going to be making a big push into cloud computing with their release slated for October. This will add to early cloud support that’s debuting in next month’s release, Ubuntu 9.04. (BTW, For a…
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Animoto – The Poster Child for AWS & EC2
At SXSW interactive I came across the booth for the cloud-based app Animoto. I was intrigued since I have seen a couple of Amazon Web Services presentations and both held up Animoto as a great example of an application that would have been impossible to deliver any other way. Animoto, which creates videos for consumers…
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Force.com at Cloud Connect
Salesforce.com was one of the Platinum Sponsors at Cloud Connect. I stopped by their booth and had a quick chat with Kavindra from developer marketing, Ash, a Force.com evangelist and Ryan a technical marketer. To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that will appear on the bottom. Some of the…
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The rise of the Google Enterprise team and Cloud
On the second day of Cloud Connect I caught up with Kevin Gough of Google. Kevin leads marketing efforts for Google Apps, website search, enterprise search and geospatial products and we chatted a bit about the evolution of the Google Apps team. To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that…
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Talking “Cloud” with Rajen Sheth — Inventor of Google Apps
The week before last, the Cloud Connect event in Mountain View kicked off with an “Evening in the Cloud.” Representatives from Google, Amazon Web Services, and Force.com pitched heads of IT on why they should move all their IT to the cloud. (Not sure who convinced whom, but it was an interesting debate nonetheless 🙂…
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Alistair Croll – The Cloud, Meta-data and Predictions for ’09
Along with Sam Charrington of Appistry and Bob Sutor of IBM, Alistair Croll, a partner at BitCurrent made up the panel at Cloud Connect that tackled standards and data portability/lock-in. I grabbed some time (2:31) with Alistair after his panel to follow up on a comment he made during the session regarding meta-data in the…
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Talking to Sam Charrington of Appistry
The first full day of Cloud Connect last week in Mountain View began with a panel discussion on standards and the cloud. One of the panelist was Sam Charrington, the VP of product management and marketing at Appistry. I was able to grab a few minutes (2:37) with the affable Sam after his session and…
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Sun’s New VP of Cloud Computing Strategy: Ian Murdock
Last week at Cloud Connect I was able to grab a few minutes with my old boss from Sun, Ian Murdock. Ian, the founder of the Debian Linux distribution, came to Sun to lead the Open Solaris charge and after that tackled Developer relations. Turns out that with the latest Sun re-org Ian has now…
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Live from Cloud Connect: David Berlind
Ok well maybe its not live but here’s a short (3:34) video I shot yesterday with David Berlind, the man behind Cloud Connect. The conference kicked off Tuesday night and continues, as I type, until this evening. To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that will appear on the bottom.…
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Heading to California, Cloud Connect and Customers
Next week I’m making my way back to the Bay Area to attend the Cloud Connect un-conference that is being held Jan 20-22 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The conference is being held in the unstructured un-conference style which I prefer. It allows more time for meeting people and talking about what…
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The Cloud — Looking back at ’08 and forward to ’09: Taking with Rackspace’s Head of Strategy
I first met Lew Moorman, Rackspace’s Chief strategy officer, at Rackspace’s big Cloud Event back in October. It was at this event that Rackspace, through acquisitions as well their friendly annexation of Mosso, positioned itself as a major cloud player. I caught up with Lew during the slow time over the holidays and we chatted…