Archive for September, 2009
Friday, September 18th, 2009
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Last night I helped organise the first CloudCamp to be held in Dublin, and the 43rd to be held around the world. The event was hosted by Paul Lynch from Hosting365 at their excellent facility at Park West in Dublin.
The event had over 70 ...
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
During the first week of September I was asked to act as the 'blogger in residence' at Sunderland Software City. This involved a commitment to write a blog post every day for a week on the 'trials and tribulations' of running a small business in the software sector.
Sunderland Software City is ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
As part of some ongoing research into the behaviour of spammers we have started capturing the geographic location of spammers in a way that we can visualise it on a map. This map shows the source of spam attacks on our emailcloud network.
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The map is ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Over the years we have used several backup systems on our various IT systems. I have recently been asked by a few friends to publish these scripts.
Firstly, please allow me to make a few assumptions:
We want to run the backup every two hours and we want to keep 400 copies ...
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
We held our first CloudSeminar event on 29th September at Newcastle University. The event was attended by over 150 people.
Make no mistake, 'the cloud' is going to be disruptive to IT. It offers significant threats to market incumbents but huge opportunities to new entrants and established companies that respond quickly. ...
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