My recent post on how sick I am of people being confused by the basic concept of cloud computing quickly brought out the comments on “what cloud is” and “what cloud is not.” And the truth is, it’s a little…
My recent post on how sick I am of people being confused by the basic concept of cloud computing quickly brought out the comments on “what cloud is” and “what cloud is not.” And the truth is, it’s a little…
Recently, I delivered a presentation at the Austin Cloud User Group introducing them to Microsoft Azure. I’m a UNIX bigot and have been doing the Amazon Cloud and open source thing, but we are delivering a product via Azure next…
This month’s ACUG meeting was cooler than usual – instead of having one speaker talk on a cloud-related topic, we had multiple group members do short presentation on what they’re actually doing in the cloud. I love talks like that,…
Two cloud systems management suppliers talk about their bidness! My comments in italics. Cloud Autoscaling in Enterprise Computing by George Reese (enStratus Networks LLC) How the Top Social Games Scale on the Cloud by Michael Crandell (RightScale, Inc) I am…
Mark your calendars; Thursday of next week (June 10) is CloudCamp here in Austin! It’s in North Austin at Pervasive’s offices (Riata Trace) from 5:30-10:00 PM. Get details and sign up here.
In the recent Amazon AWS Newsletter, they asked the following: Some customers have asked us about ways to easily convert virtual machines from VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen Server, and Microsoft Hyper-V to Amazon EC2 instances – and vice versa. If…
The second CloudCamp in Austin is happening June 10. It’s an unconference about, of course, cloud computing. Read about it and sign up here! I missed the first one but loved OpsCamp so I’m going!
What is Microsoft Azure? Here’s a clear explanation of this new cloud computing product and how it compares to Amazon and Google.
I went to OpsCamp this last weekend here in Austin, a get-togther for Web operations folks specifically focusing on the cloud, and it was a great time! Here’s my after action report. The event invite said it was in the…
The industry is abuzz with people who are freaked out about the outages that Amazon and other cloud vendors have had. “Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud Customers,” says InformationWeek! This is because people are going into cloud computing…
