Archive for December, 2008
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Google is the undoubted leader in the scalability race. They run one of the biggest networks of servers in the world, perhaps more than the US government host. They have pushed the edges of traditional technology and invented many, many new technologies, some of which they have released and some ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
In its current guise, I am not a big fan of Google App Engine…even the new leader of the Western World couldn’t convince me of the virtues.
In my September post I wrote about why I don’t like the existing service. I was a little critical of the service but I ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
I just gave a presentation to the North East Chapter of SOCITM (Society of Information Technology Management) in St James's Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. SOCITM is the professional association for public sector ICT managers.
In the presentation I gave an introduction the Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS) and how the technology is different to ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Over the past few weeks I have been working over in Ireland with some potential xSP partners (both ISP’s and data center providers). It is great to see that the Irish data center providers are very busy with most of them approaching capacity. Many of my contacts in Dublin commented ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
I just noticed that US President Elect Barack Obama uses AppEngine!
Barack has a website that canvases opinions on his various policies. This website uses Moderator, a Q&A manager running on App Engine written by Google.
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