Stories
Reading various posts about application development platforms for IPhone, Blackberry, Vodafone, Android and many others.
Being a big fan of Wikinomics, Crowdsourcing and all those visionary 2.0...
I was just reading about Research in Montion and their innovation in Fast Company and about their applicaiton directory in Business Week.
I was also reading about Vodafone in Business Week.
...
IPhone applications are a success, no arguement here. With this success there are a lot of of mobile providers mimicking this. We saw the recent release of the Blackberry application directory and we see other mobile carriers talking of the same.
Having a platform dev...
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...
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...
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...
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
<...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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:
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 ...
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?
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...
Came across a nice overview of a core element of Cloud Computing, multi-tenancy. It is a good read, I recommend it.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
