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My friend Randy Bias very kindly came in and did a web conference presentation at work this week on his views of cloud computing (which are well summarised in a post he did at the end of last year). Inevitably the topic of security came up, and Randy, drawing on his past experience in the [...]
Filed under: architecture, cloud, security, software | 6 Comments
Tags: audit, bolt on, build in, cloud, compliance, firewall, gateway, iaas, paas, schema, security, validation, xml
A tale of two clouds
Over the past few weeks I’ve been kicking the tyres on two new(ish) entrants to the IaaS space. Both services are still in beta. Savvis Virtual Private Datacenter I first came across this back in June at the Cloud Computing World Forum, and I signed up straight away for a trial. Sadly there was some kind [...]
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Tags: API, aws, Brightbox, cloud, Hybrid Cluster, Hybrid Logic, iaas, Ruby, Savvis, snapshot, VPDC
My friend Randy posted a few days ago on Grid, Cloud, HPC … What’s the Diff?. I started to make a comment on the blog, but it was getting too long so I moved it here. Randy does a good job of pinning down both performance and scalability, but in my experience productivity trumps both. This [...]
Filed under: cloud, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: cloud, grid, MPI, parallel processing, performance, productivity, scalability
Using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy
I’ve been meaning to try this out for some time, and my recent trials with Amazon’s US Kindle Store prodded me into action. The theory Popular SSH clients (like OpenSSH and Putty) have features that allow tunneling. Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) normally have some way of being administered over SSH. So… start up an EC2 [...]
Filed under: cloud, howto | 9 Comments
Tags: amazon, AMI, ec2, howto, OpenSSH, proxy, Putty, SOCKS, SSH, web
When I registered thestateofme.com some years back it was for a project to allow synchronisation of RSS aggregator/reader state across a number of systems. I never wrote any code because things got overtaken by events. Firstly I discovered RSS Bandit, which had a mechanism to sync state via a WebDAV server (and a number of [...]
Filed under: cloud, could_do_better, media, technology | 7 Comments
Tags: audiobook, bookmark, cloud, ebook, media, player, reader, state, sync, synchronisation, video
SaaS tax trouble
In the last few weeks I’ve had snags with both Skype and Google over billing. I could take this personally – thinking that my bad teclo karma (which must run in the family) is now turning into bad SaaS karma? I suspect though that the problems are much more widespread. Skype I’ve had a Skype [...]
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Tags: billing, cloud, gapps, google, saas, skype, tax, VAT
Mowing the Cloud
I had a good chat with JP yesterday, and one aspect of that chat related to cloud computing. This got us talking about the disconnect between goods and services. Goods have become very cheap (relative to services), and I have a couple of favourite examples. The first is bicycles. A decent kids bike has been [...]
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Tags: cloud, economics, goods, services
Not Only SQL
No, or Not Only One of the most sensible things to emerge for the recent no:sql(eu) event (which sadly I didn’t attend) was a statement that NOSQL should be expanded to Not Only SQL rather than No SQL. This is an interesting development, as there’s been lots of good stuff going on in the NOSQL [...]
Filed under: cloud, software, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: cloud, database, dba, iaas, nosql, paas, rdbms, sql, storage
Dear Mr Soames, As the Digital Economy Bill leaves the Lords and heads to the Commons I’m writing to you in the hope that you can help stop (or fix) this damaging piece of legislation. Much ink has already been spilled on the issues around ‘piracy’ of media content such as music, videos, games and [...]
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Tags: debill, digital economy bill, saas
Digital Economy Bill vs SaaS
This evening I was supposed to be doing a lightening talk on PaaS at London CloudCamp, which would cover the stuff that I did over Christmas and New Year. Hopefully I’ll get to do that another day, as right now I feel obliged to speak out about an amendment that’s been introduced to the Digital [...]
Filed under: cloud, politics | 2 Comments
Tags: acta, cloud, cloudcamp, debill, digital economy bill, iaas, saas
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