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Category Archives: cloudcomputing
Karmic Koalas Love Eucalyptus
Mark Shuttleworth recently announced that the release of Ubuntu 9.10 will be code-named Karmic Koala. Whilst many of the developments around Ubuntu 9.10 are focused on the desktop, a significant effort is being made on the server release to bring Ubuntu into the cloud computing space. The cloud effort begins with 9.04 and the launch of a technology preview of Eucalyptus, an open sourced system for creating Amazon EC2-like clouds, on Ubuntu. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, cloudcomputing, opensource, operations, ubuntu
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Cloud Computing defined by Berkeley RAD Labs
I am pleased to finally have found a paper that manages to bring together the different aspects of cloud computing in a coherent fashion, and suggests the requirements for it to develop further. Written by the Berkeley RAD Lab (UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory) the paper succinctly brings together Software as a Service with Utility Computing to come… Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Web2.0, cloudcomputing, operations
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Four short links: 23 Jan 2009
Potty mouth, piracy, pointers to the future of the web, and Presidential technology woes, all in today’s link roundup. F*ck the Cloud – Jason Scott’s brilliant (and profanity-strewn) rant about cloud computing and the things people throw away without thinking about. Jason, an Internet historian, has a unique perspective and I think what he says makes a lot of sense…. Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized, cloudcomputing, copyright, javascript, piracy, president, web
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Palm’s webOS Represents Major Shift for Syncing and Data
In an article covering the Palm Pre mobile device, Ars Technica makes a very important point about how devices utilize network connectivity, and what the assumptions are underlying their… Continue reading
Posted in Android, DRM, Devices, Iphone, Palm, Publishing News, Read20, Uncategorized, cloudcomputing, digitalcontent, lockin, mobile, mobilecontent, proprietary, sync, webos
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Data Center Power Efficiency
James Hamilton is one of the smartest and most accomplished engineers I know. He now leads Microsoft’s Data Center Futures Team, and has been pushing the opportunities in data center efficiency and internet scale services both inside & outside Microsoft. His most recent post explores misconceptions about the Cost of Power in Large-Scale Data Centers: I’m not sure how many… Continue reading
My mind is buzzing right now…
My mind is buzzing right now, full of ideas that are all demanding my attention, begging to be written up. I don’t have time right now, but I thought I’d write down the headlines, both as a kind of “to do list” and also to give a sense of the stew of topics I’m spending time on: Why change.gov needs… Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Web2.0, cloudcomputing, government
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