Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Over the past few weeks I have been working over in Ireland with some potential xSP partners (both ISP’s and data center providers). It is great to see that the Irish data center providers are very busy with most of them approaching capacity. Many of my contacts in Dublin commented ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
I just noticed that US President Elect Barack Obama uses AppEngine!
Barack has a website that canvases opinions on his various policies. This website uses Moderator, a Q&A manager running on App Engine written by Google.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
I have a notebook full of business ideas that in a perfect world I would love to develop. These ideas range from intelligent DNS systems, fast and scalable hosting environments and even the designs of a cool network switch which will speed up network communication. One of the ideas I ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
I really believe in the idea of using cloud computing to bootstrap and transition your business. This is the process where you use the extremely low costs of cloud computing to boot strap your business into 'month-on-month' profitability by building cash flow on services that are built and supplied using ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Over the past few months I have been helping to setup the Super Mondays range of events. The next event has been confirmed for Monday October 27th at the Beehive (Newcastle University). The event will kick off at 6:00pm.
After some networking / unstructured discussion, we will convene at 6:45 for the evenings entertainment….Language Wars. ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Dave Berry from Grid Computing Now has invited me to speak at a webinar on 14th October entitled:
Powering Your Business with Cloud Computing
I plan to tell the emailcloud story...how we are using a multi-tenanted, virtualised and scalable infrastructure to deliver an industry leading email scanning service.
In preparation for the event ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
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I spent yesterday at the Future of Web Apps show at London Excel. I was invited by Tony Lucas from Flexiscale.
The show was very well attended by focused speakers, exhibitors and atendeeds.
I gave a short presentation on 'How to use Cloud Computing in your Web ...
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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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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
After several months of planning we have finally held our first large usergroup event last night at the Beehive in Newcastle University.
At short notice we collected 20 people from the following various usergroups:
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Ruby
LUG (Linux User Group)
ACCU
Refresh Newcastle
The ultimte goal is to build the profile of open source ...
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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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