Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
I have a notebook full of business ideas that in a perfect world I would love to develop. These ideas range from intelligent DNS systems, fast and scalable hosting environments and even the designs of a cool network switch which will speed up network communication. One of the ideas I ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
I really believe in the idea of using cloud computing to bootstrap and transition your business. This is the process where you use the extremely low costs of cloud computing to boot strap your business into 'month-on-month' profitability by building cash flow on services that are built and supplied using ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Dave Berry from Grid Computing Now has invited me to speak at a webinar on 14th October entitled:
Powering Your Business with Cloud Computing
I plan to tell the emailcloud story...how we are using a multi-tenanted, virtualised and scalable infrastructure to deliver an industry leading email scanning service.
In preparation for the event ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
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I spent yesterday at the Future of Web Apps show at London Excel. I was invited by Tony Lucas from Flexiscale.
The show was very well attended by focused speakers, exhibitors and atendeeds.
I gave a short presentation on 'How to use Cloud Computing in your Web ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
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Last month I took part in the Codeworks Connect event called SaaS and Cloud Computing. This event was sponsored by Amazon Web Services and emailcloud.
120 people from the IT sector in the North East of England attended. It was an excellent opportunity to network with ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Google Developer Day, Google App Engine Presentation
On tuesday I travelled to London to the Google Developer Day. As expected, the event was very well organised.
Mano Marks gave an excellent set of presentation on Google App Engine. You can view them on YouTube.
I went along to see what I can learn ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Next month I will be speaking at a webinar alongside Dave Berry and Alan WIlliamson. The webinar is entitled "Powering Your Business with Cloud Computing" and takes place on Tuesday October 14th 2008, 1.30pm.
More Details Here
You can signup for the event here.
Dave Barry has written a blog post about this here.
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
After several months of hard work we have finally announced the first event! Codeworks are promoting the event which will cover the 'Software as a Service' and Cloud Computing markets.
The event will take place on 25th September at a venue in Newcastle. There is more information on www.thinkandadrink.com (this will ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Traditionally, if you wanted to setup an online business you needed money...and lots of it. With the advent of commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers the economics of the internet startup has changed....for the better.
In the past if you came up with the next ‘killer app’ you would be ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I was asked to summarise the benefits of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to the business community over traditional server deployments.
I can only answer this from my personal prospective...but as a small business owner I can tell you that the benefit in IaaS is:
in allowing startups access to infrastructure ...
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