Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
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 […]
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Tags: cloud, database, dba, iaas, nosql, paas, rdbms, sql, storage
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 […]
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Tags: acta, cloud, cloudcamp, debill, digital economy bill, iaas, saas
GDrive
I’ve been a keen user of Gmail since its earliest days, and I also use Google Apps at work, so I’m not surprised by the excitement around the launch of what people are calling ‘GDrive’, which is actually just a new feature of Google Docs that allows arbitrary files to be shared. What is a […]
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Tags: aws, bittorrent, cloud, gapps, gmail, google, s3, SMEstorage, storage
Workload factoring
One of the things that IGT2009 got me thinking about again was workload. It’s clear when listening to people’s stories of what they’ve put ‘on the cloud’ (both public and private) that certain workloads fit more easily than others. The easiest pickings seem to be embarrassingly parallel high performance compute (HPC) tasks that have high CPU demands […]
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Tags: cloud, grid, hpc, iaas, paas, workload
I spent most of last week at the IGT 2009 ‘World Summit of Cloud Computing‘. There were some great speakers there, but the session that sticks in my mind was Alistair Croll’s piece at the end where he talked about the future of cloud. One of the most thought provoking statements that he made was […]
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