Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category

CloudCamp 2010 schedule

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Today we announced our 2010 CloudCamp schedule for the North of England and Ireland. The events are: Dublin 14th April 2010 Cork 15th April 2010 Durham, 5th May 2010 Leeds, 6th May 2010 I hope that we have not taken on too much!

CloudComputing Congress Europe

Monday, February 15th, 2010

I am looking forward to attending the Cloud Computing Congress Europe event at Olympia in London on March 15 & 16th. I attend quite a few CloudCamp events every year and they are a great way to meet other developers in the CloudComputing space, but events like the CloudComputing Congress allow ...

CloudSeminar — Sponsored by NorthernNet

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I was not able to attend the CloudSeminar event in Teesside last month but SuperMondays recorded the event on video, these are here: Steve Caughey from Arjuna:[viddler id-f59d853d h-216 w-218] Andy from Onyx:[viddler id-75bef119 h-162 w-218] The event was sponsored by NorthernNet. So, who are NorthernNet? Well, they run a collection of of pay-as-you-go ...

Upscaling servers makes sense, but upscaling a system is better.

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

One of the great problems that any system manager has to deal with is capacity. In a strange way we all aspire to have capacity problems…in my opinion capacity problems come hand in hand with success and it is very rare that you have one without the other. If you work ...

Top 50 Spamvertised Websites

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

The emailcloud network processes plenty of data every day. Over the past few months we have been trying to make some of this data public so that other people can use it and last year we published some of this data in the form of a map of worldwide spam locations. ...

Advance Fee Fraud turned on it’s head by Mother London

Monday, January 4th, 2010

We have all heard about the Advance Fee Fraud scam emails that have been going around for the past 10 years. This scam has been around for generations...I remember getting a fax version of it over 15 years ago! The Scam operates as follows: the target receives an unsolicited fax, email, ...

Agile programming rocks! (Codeworks digital bootcamp)

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Yesterday I took part in the Codeworks Connect Digital Bootamp. The event was attended by around 80 software, web and games developers. After an excellent introdution from Meri Williams the attendees split into three groups for workshops.  Oli Wood from the Bgroup ran the web developers workshop, Chris Hadley from Ubisoft ...

antispam and antivirus resellers wanted!

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Since the release of our email spam and virus protection service (emailcloud) in September 2007 we have signed up over 1200 SME’s on the system. Our first 1,000 customers took 23 months to register, but since then sales have been very brisk, for example in October we signed up 138 ...

Downtime is unacceptable

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Downtime is unacceptable in any market, and especially not in a commoditized market where customers demand a solid user experience. Early adopters and Beta testers deal with buggy code, bad documentation and downtime. Such annoyances are ignored because the advantages of testing a new gadget or being the first in your ...

CloudCamp Dublin, presentations

Friday, September 18th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_412" align="alignright" width="158" caption="Dave Neilsen (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cloudcamp/2966839755/)"][/caption] 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 ...