Archive for March, 2009

emailcloud wins ‘Best Online Security Solution’ at the NE Digital Awards

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Last Wednesday night was a busy time for Rozmic, and specifically the emailcloud team. While Ross was presenting at the CloudCamp event in Scotland, Nathan and Helen were at the NE Digital Awards accepting the award for 'Best Online Security Solition'. It has been a busy year at Rozmic and we want ...

CloudCamp North East, a review

Friday, March 27th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_223" align="alignright" width="168" caption="Ross Cooney, MD or Rozmic"][/caption] On Tuesday night in Newcastle-upon-Tyne we held the first CloudCamp event to be held outside London. The event was held in the Research Beehive at Newcastle University. The CloudCamp events are setup so that early adopters of the technology can get ‘face time’ ...

Six day working week for all email delivery, effective immediately.

Friday, March 20th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_208" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Array 5, the Union Rep at emailcloud"][/caption] Our emailcloud email operations will undergo a significant change in working practices effective immediately. These changes will impact on all customers of our spam protection service. After lengthy negotiations with the union who represent 90% of our computer servers we have ...

Bootstrap and Transition, the advantages of cloud computing

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I am speaking at the forthcoming CloudCamp event in Newcastle-upon-Tyne next week and I have decided to talk about the 'bootstrap and Transition' methodology that we used to get the emailcloud service off the ground. The talk will focus around why you don't need to raise VC funding for your early stage ...

Amazon integration, Arduino and a Cubicle story…yep it’s SuperMondays!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

The March 30th SuperMondays event has been announced, the speakers are: Oli Wood – Arduino The Arduino hardware is an open source circuit board which lots of developers, artists and home-hackers are using to build all sorts of interactive electronic kit.  It runs the Processing.org language (amongst other thing) and lets you ...

Eventual consistency Vs Linearizability

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

  Last week I spent a few days with an IT company in Montreal, Canada. We are looking at partnering with this company to share some intellectual property, basically, we want to use some of their applications and modules in our emailcloud service. Unfortunately we came to a road block due ...