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Kin Lane

Financial Gains of Cloud Computing

I read probably 10-20 articles daily about the cost savings of cloud computing. So many of them. This is definitely an area of consideration when making the migration to the cloud for your business. However I would like to see more analysts talk about the efficiency gains regarding performance and generally meeting the demands of your customers. There are a lot of savings and improvements in this area. This is the biggest area of benefit I see for companies after making the mi...
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Finally caught up on inbox...

Was able to find a couple hours today to read everything in my inbox regarding my cloud computing research. Thanks for those of you who responded and are getting involved. It was a busy week for me preparing for the SAP Sapphire event in
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Data Center Preparedness

I have talked before about data centers supporting the cloud and green data center construction strategies. I have heard comments on the amount of data center infrastructure we have is adequate for the next round of cloud growth. I tend to be an optimist, but I thi...
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Cloud Computing Migration as Part of your Marketing

I am encountering many companies that are putting together their cloud computing migration strategy for either their entire company or for specific programs. I see several companies posting comments and questions about this process which creates some transparency of their activities. I feel strongly that any company seeking to migrate their small or medium sized business to the cloud should do so in a very transparent way as possible. They can ask questions of the profession cloud com...
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Cloud Computing for the Government

I am conducting my cloud computing research and specifically focusing on: United States Federal Government Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing United States State Government Education, Adoption, and Usage of Cloud Computing <...
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JavaScript Array Size Limitation

I was just working on an EXTJS datarid and it wouldn't appear in Chrome no matter what I did.
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Ubiquitous Oriented Architecture (UOA)

I have been working real hard for the last couple of months to design a solid base for my companies architecture. I was seeing a new theme to my architecture planning, and as a typical geek I have to give this some name and / or achronym. So I came up with Ubiquitous Oriented Architecture (UOA). I want one platform for delivering our data using web services to any platform possible. I want to deliver event management and marketing tools through whatever channel the user wants ...
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Software QA in the Clouds Using SkyTap

So I have been test driving a new cloud platform or tool every couple days as I have time. I took a test drive and demo of SkyTap last week. I wrote down some notes on it, but will be pr...
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Multi-Tenancy Definition and Overview in the Clouds

So I was laying down by the river today in the sun and had a set of initial thoughts around defining and quantifying my tenancy within the cloud. I really want to see my presence more defined so I have a better understanding and control. Here are some initial thoughts. So my presence in the cloud usually is going to reside in a tenancy slot at on or more data centers, without getting too technical. Depending on the size and importance of my company or presence my tenancy will ...
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Government Adoption in the Cloud

A recent post called, How Cloud Computing is transforming global business really spoke to me. It was a very clear list of important factors on how Cloud Computing is transforming business. I would like to take the time and analyze each point in the post:
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Google's is Creating a Very Robust Cloud Platform

I have been playing around with some research on cloud computing lately. I am using the Google Platform as a base to store and present all the data. I used Google as a Platform when I was doing my social media marketing business. It gave me a ready to go platform to collaborate on without building something from scratch. I am enjoying trying to retrofit it to ...
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Taxes in the Cloud

I am last minute e-filing my taxes because my accountant just told me my extension was denied cause they say someone already filed using my SSN? Whole other issue. So I am working using an online software and it is pretty slow, but that expected because its 4/15. So I ask myself....are they scaling their infrastructure in the clouds?
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My Data in the US or EU Cloud

I was sitting in a pub last night drinking a beer and organizing my home photos so I could share with my ex-wife. I was uploading images in various zipped folders into different buckets in my Amazon S3 storage in the cloud. I was also uploading various zipped folders from my web application development businesss I ran for 8 years. All the project, accounting and business inf...
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Information on the Multi-Tenancy of Cloud Computing

Came across a nice overview of a core element of Cloud Computing, multi-tenancy. It is a good read, I recommend it.
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Google Doc Access Integration with Google Checkout

I am going through my notes of blog ideas from the last couple of weeks and getting a few things out of the way. I have been coding for a while and need to blog. And since I am talking about Google features I want, I have another request. I am using the Google Platform for a research project on cloud computing in my spare time. I am storing my research in Google Docs and organizing my research using...
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Google Contacts Feature Suggestion

I have had my Gmail account since the early days. I begged people to give me invites and finally got one. Ohhhh the early days. So my contact list is pretty large, and now that Google has expanded it beyond just a list of email addresses into an actual contact management system. It is pretty simple, but you can actually do a lot with it. I have been working to clean up my contact system and really start using it as a CRM. I really like that I can see the conversation history o...
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Changes and Evolving

Been pissed off for a couple days because my new browser tab in Firefox doesn't fit up there anymore because of some new search box.
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Amazon S3 Client Tool

I am constantly looking for better tools to manage my cloud environments. I have been using Amazon S3 since it first came out. I really saw the potential Amazon S3 had early on, as storage for all my web applications. I ran a web application development company with my now ex-wife for eight years called Original Web Solutions. We were on version 4.0 of our content management system when we dissolved the company. Version 4.0 was a completely SaaS based system and utilized Amazon S3 for...
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More major Internet and Data Center Outage

Was just reading this post about a major Australian Internet outage that left the entire top end of the country without telephone, internet or mobile communications for about 10 hours. Definitely brings attention to a MAJOR problem we will continue facing with our nations infrastructure. I wrote about the outage in San Jose the other day, that affected our company. There nee...
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Denial of Service Attacks

Was just reading this post on CloudPundit - DDoS season regarding several high profile distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The victims include: Neustar's UltraDNS. (Problems with specific regional DNS clusters, with little customer-visible impact.) Register.com. (Severe impact on Web hosting and email customers.) GoGrid. (Severe impact on cloud hosting customers...
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Cloud Computing Interroperability

I read every day about the need for cloud computing interroperability between providers. Just about all of it is talk. Providers claim they pay attention to this point, however the only major move beyond just straight API's is the Google Secure Data Connector release the other day. I really think interroperability between providers is going to have to be defined, and built by the masses. The developers who rely upon the...
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Tags

Tags help give me a visual summary of a lot of my work. I deal with a lot of content and it is hard to see the high level view. Tag clouds give us a great perspective of everything from our Blogs to Google Reader and beyond. I don't make enough time to tag all my blog postings. Most of my blog entries are purely shooting from the hip as I have the thought. Otherwise they don't make it in my blog. As I am sure some of you can tell, because when you read...I could use some edito...
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More Great Infomation on Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0

Another great post from Dion Hinchliffe @ ZD Net.....Determining the ROI of Entrpise 2.0 Each of Dion's articles leave me processing the links and information for days. Every IT director should be following his blog. Excellent advice as you are trying to figure out how to navigate the migration to Enterprise 2.0 and into the clouds.
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Google Seems to be Furthest Ahead in Cloud Interconnectivity

I have come across several articles on Google's new Secure Data Connector. Definitely a huge step in legitimizing the usage of Google Docs within a corporate environment. With the Google Secure Data connector you can access data within Google Gadgets, Google App Engine and Google Spreadsheets. It gives you user access control to applications. I was working on an overview of the opportunities Google provides for cloud computing interconnectivity as well (coming in next po...
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Google Cloud as a Viable Small Business Platform

So I have used Google as a platform for a while. I did several large scale social media marketing campaigns completely using Google as a platform. They just have the best software services, platform services, and infrastructure services. I have been finding the best route to provide a easy, but effective solution for some my mom and brother's technology platform. Google is the logical choice because with a domain I immediately get email, calendaring, document sharing, ...
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