Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
I am speaking at the forthcoming CloudCamp event in Newcastle-upon-Tyne next week and I have decided to talk about the 'bootstrap and Transition' methodology that we used to get the emailcloud service off the ground. The talk will focus around why you don't need to raise VC funding for your early stage ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
The March 30th SuperMondays event has been announced, the speakers are:
Oli Wood – Arduino
The Arduino hardware is an open source circuit board which lots of developers, artists and home-hackers are using to build all sorts of interactive electronic kit. It runs the Processing.org language (amongst other thing) and lets you ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Last week I spent a few days with an IT company in Montreal, Canada. We are looking at partnering with this company to share some intellectual property, basically, we want to use some of their applications and modules in our emailcloud service. Unfortunately we came to a road block due ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
On 12 February 2009 175+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.
We are happy to announce that emailcloud, our email spam scanning service have become the platinum sponsor of the Newcastle Twestival. The event will start at ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
We finally launched our Liverpool network last week, this is after three months planning and many late nights adapting our administration system.
Emailcloud is our email filtering service. The service is run over a cloud of servers initially on the AWS network. In October we opened our own network in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
I am really heppy to be working with a great team to help organise the upcoming CloudCamp event in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 24th March 2009.
the North-West event is following on from the great success of the first two London CloudCamps, and various other CloudCamps around the globe. I am really ...
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
The MD5 checksum algorithm should create a unique signature for every file...but it has a flaw. This flaw was theorized in 2004 by a team of Chinese developers who proved that you can create two different files that had the same MD5 hash. In 2007, another team showed how this ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Google is the undoubted leader in the scalability race. They run one of the biggest networks of servers in the world, perhaps more than the US government host. They have pushed the edges of traditional technology and invented many, many new technologies, some of which they have released and some ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
In its current guise, I am not a big fan of Google App Engine…even the new leader of the Western World couldn’t convince me of the virtues.
In my September post I wrote about why I don’t like the existing service. I was a little critical of the service but I ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
I just gave a presentation to the North East Chapter of SOCITM (Society of Information Technology Management) in St James's Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. SOCITM is the professional association for public sector ICT managers.
In the presentation I gave an introduction the Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS) and how the technology is different to ...
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