Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category
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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
We held our second CloudCamp event in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Wednesday 29th July.
You can download the following presentations here:
Looking inside a cloud -- Gihan Munasinghe from Flexiscale
Cloud, Dead Simple -- Stwart Townsend from SUN Startup Essentials
The Cloud: Implications for the Enterprise -- Matt Deacon from Microsoft
CloudGazing-- Steve Caughey from Arjuna
Bootstrap and ...
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Last week was a long one for us….we have been working very hard on new projects, including:
We completed some more development on the private cloud infrastructure project that we are working on with Arjuna. We are well on target to present this to the CloudSeminar event next week at Newcastle ...
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
On Wednesday I spent the morning with Lisa Smith and the team and kids from Big Ideas Youth Challenge 2009. The Big Ideas Youth Challenge is a scheme setup to help encourage the entrepreneurial talents of people under 20 years of age in the North East of England. The team were on ...
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
This month we have provisioned more capacity in our Liverpool data center and to celebrate we are offering companies a three month free trial of the emailcloud service. To see if your qualifies please check here.
This trial has no restrictions, it is open to companies or organizations of any size ...
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