Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Every large IT project has a bottle neck and if you look closely enough you will find it.
A client of ours is working on a very complicated IT project and while I started keeping an eye on it during the early stages I found myself getting involved on a daily ...
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Two weeks ago I spoke at the London CloudCamp organised by Chris Purrington from CohesiveFT. I used the opportunity to answer a question I am asked every day...What is a message queue? and how can I use a MQ in my enterprise?
To get ready for the talk I spent a day with ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
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We started the development work for StormMQ over two years ago...you can only imagine how happy (and relieved) we were when we rolled out our first customer installation this month!
StormMQ is a startup company who provide a managed message queue service using the ...
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
I was asked a question at CloudCamp Gateshead on Safe Harbor...and I nearly expoded....its my favorite rant topic at the moment...here is a video:
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
I love everything about start-ups...the anticipation, feverish activity, hard work, late nights and most of all the risk. The energy of a start-up is contagious, infectious and addictive. And it is because of this that I joined StormMQ.
When I got involved in February the company had just started to get the private ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
At CloudCamp Gateshead I gave a presentation on how putting personal data in the cloud is a major problem for companies. This was a presentation that I borrowed from Daragh O'Brien (Castlebridge Associates).
The presentation covered areas such as:
The cloud computing promise -- a nirvana where all your needs are catered ...
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
Last week we ran CloudCamp Dublin and CloudCamp Cork.
CloudCamp Dublin was held at the Microsoft offices in Sandyford and attracted over 80 atendees. We started the event with a presentation by Daragh O'Brien from Castleridge Associates entitled Obscured by Clouds - Data Protection and Cloud Computing. This presentation went through all of the ...
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
On Monday and Tuesday last week I travelled to London to attend the Cloud Computing Congress Europe event at London’s Olympia conference venue. The event was packed full of speeches, demos and panel discussions for the Cloud Computing area. I especially liked the opportunity to spend some 1-2-1 time with ...
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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!
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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 ...
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