Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category
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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Friday, July 11th, 2008
I was asked by a friend how I would setup a website in a scalable way using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The website will have a service where it will take file uploads from users, process them and make the result publically available on the website. It is expected that this ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Stacey Higginbotham from Gigacom wrote an interesing article about AWS. I found the article opened up an interesting discussion around the future of innovation at AWS.
Stacy says:
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon said that they built AWS for the company’s internal developers, and as such, didn’t feel the need to wrap ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
My day job is managing the worldwide network of spam filtering servers used to provide the EmailCloud service. I have been managing email servers for almost ten years and have quite a bit of experience in the area. Recently I have been using several cloud computing providers to host parts ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
The guys at Rightscale came up with these really easy ways to define the various level of cloud computing offerings; I have slightly rephrased their explanations:
Applications in the cloud: In my opinion this is not 'cloud computing'...it is simply SaaS, Software as a Service, looking to join the ‘cloud’ craze. ...
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