Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category

Safe Harbor is a red herring…it adds no value

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: [viddler id-ce2a8869 h-206 w-218] [slideshare id=4465711&doc=shrant-100610104630-phpapp01]

I love start-ups !

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 ...

Putting private data in the cloud may be breaking the law

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 ...

CloudCamp Ireland

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 ...

CloudStorm London

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 ...

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. ...