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A quick shout out to anyone interested in joining us for a beer or two in London next Thursday night to meet and talk about Live Mesh and cloud computing. As Steve Lamb says we have Jeff Hansen and Angus Logan in town so it should be a fun chat. Jeff Read More...
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[image credit NY Times] BusinessWeek published an interesting take on the brewing data center wars this week . They interviewed Debra Chrapaty, our Corporate Vice President of Global Foundation Services who is pretty bullish about our plans and progress. Read More...
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  A great list by Geva Perry ...reminder that I must talk about clouds more. [image credit – vincentabry ]   Read More...
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I just read the details of Capgemini hooking up with Amazon Web Services and was intrigued by one part of the press release   Capgemini’s new Cloud Computing Center of Excellence will initially focus on three enterprise use cases: Microsoft Sharepoint Read More...
The PDC was full of proper geeks as I like to call them – people who write code and talk fluent machine language. i.e. not me…for us mere mortals I found David Chappel’s paper on Azure to be a good primer. In particular he captured well what the CTP offers Read More...
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The broadsheet coverage of cloud computing continues apace with Tim Walker at The Independent covering it today under the soon to be overused title Cloudsurfing . What I love about serious papers covering the topic is they remove a lot of the hyperbole Read More...
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Sometimes The Register makes me grimace but today they made me smile. Okay so their view of Azure isn’t totally accurate but it’s not that far off and you have to love the style in which it’s written. As an example   Windows Azure protects you from Read More...
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  I really enjoyed Marc Andreessen’s post last year titled The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet . Back then I sort of knew where Microsoft was going with what was then called Red Dog, Zurich and Horizon and is now the Azure Services Read More...
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Tim O’Reilly sits atop Techmeme at the moment with his post on Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing . It reminded me of Andreessen on Platforms from just over a year ago. Good to see my old pal Hugh involved in this debate too as he often brings some sanity in Read More...
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  Yep, we’ve been saying the iPhone is a great example of cloud computing – or more accurately Software plus Services – for a while. I’ve said this at a few recent conferences and it always get’s a raised eyebrow when I put an iPhone in my presentation Read More...
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Hats off to Jas for capturing SteveB on video during one of his sessions this week in London. He even went so far as to transcribe much of the interview which has been picked up by CIO Magazine . I enjoyed this quote   By the time we finish our Professional Read More...
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Hot on the heels of yesterdays news that Amazon will enable users to run Windows Server on EC2, another big cloud company, 3Tera , has added Windows to their portfolio. For those not familiar with 3 Tera they’re a specialist data centre/cloud vendor whose Read More...
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Damn. I got invited to the recent Data Center Experience event we hosted in our San Antonio data center last week but couldn’t make it. It sounds like I should have moved heaven and earth to go. The subject line of this post is from one of the attendees Read More...
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Amazon EC2 With Windows – I sort of knew this was coming and now it’s announced . This should make their booth at the PDC very interesting. From their blog post   The product is currently in a private beta and is scheduled for public release before Read More...
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I never thought I’d see myself agreeing with Richard Stallman and I think his jibe that “ Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity " is a little OTT but I get where he’s coming from. He followed up by saying “users should be keen to keep their Read More...
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