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The Intercloud is a global cloud of clouds
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Few of us will dispute that: The Internet is a global network of networks So it logically follows that: The Intercloud is a global cloud of clouds It’s amazing
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“as a Service” moniker considered harmful (IOW: Say NO to *aaS!)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.This is a humble (possibly overdue) call for the community to start thinking about adopting sensible cloud computing nomenclature – it’s going to happen eventually anyway so we may
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Is HTTP the HTTP of cloud computing?
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Ok so after asking Is OCCI the HTTP of cloud computing? I realised that the position may have already been filled and that the question was more Is AtomPub
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Is AtomPub already the HTTP of cloud computing?
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.A couple of weeks ago I asked Is OCCI the HTTP of cloud computing? I explained the limitations of HTTP in this context, which basically stem from the fact
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Valeo’s 30,000 Google Apps users announced
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It’s been a long time in coming but I can finally tell you all about what originally brought me to France. Back in 2007 as a strategic consultant I
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Is OCCI the HTTP of Cloud Computing?
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The Web is built on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a client-server protocol that simply allows client user agents to retrieve and manipulate resources stored on a server. It
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Apple iPad to be Steve Jobs’ welcome back gift?
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.You may recall the Crystal Ball: Apple’s $599 “iPad Touch” Netbook (with pictures) article last year in which I mocked up the forthcoming Apple iPad. Although it turns out
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On the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems…
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Ok so IBM dropped Sun on the floor only to have Oracle snap them up (surely a nice bidding war would have been the least they could do for
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Introducing the Cloud Computing Stack (2009 Edition)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Those of you watching the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) mailing list over the weekend may have spotted the Resource Types: Compute / Network / Storage thread which the
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rel=shortlink: url shortening that really doesn’t hurt the internet
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Inspired primarily by the fact that the guys behind the RevCanonical fiasco are still stubbornly refusing to admit they got it wrong (the whole while arrogantly brushing off increasingly
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CBS/CNET/ZDNet interview on cloud standards and platforms
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’m a bit too busy right now for putting together my usual meticulously crafted blog posts and random thoughts have found a good home at Twitter (@samj), so I
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Introducing rel=”shortlink”: a better alternative to URL shorteners
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Yesterday I wrote rather critically about a surprisingly successful drive to implement a deprecated “rev” relationship. This developed virtually overnight in response to the growing “threat” (in terms of