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  • The Cloud Computing Doghouse: Nirvanix (aka Streamload aka MediaMax aka The Linkup)

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Although Dell have been denied the ill-fated cloud computing trademark (that’s lowercase please. hold the ™) and moved on to more interesting things, they’re yet to concede defeat and…

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  • Cloud User Shell (cush) multi-call executable prototype released

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.After much discussion of what goes on below the water line (in the provider/enabler space), hopefully this prototype release will refocus energy and get the creative juices flowing above…

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  • Cloud standards: not so fast…

    This content is 16 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 rate of innovation amongst cloud computing providers is mind boggling – developments are building on each other (for example look at the ecosystem which has sprung up overnight…

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  • Cloud computing and Open Source software

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Here is a post I just made to the cloud computing group in the ‘Power of opensource!!!’ thread. I thought was relevant for blog readers as well as it…

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  • Dell Denied: ‘Cloud Computing’ both desciptive and generic

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.USPTO have already denied Dell’s cloud computing trademark application: A non-final action has been mailed. This is a letter from the examining attorney requesting additional information and/or making an…

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  • Cloud computing and the coming clone wars

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.All this talk about Dell’s place in the cloud computing ecosystem has got me thinking… I’ve been saying for a long time now that the hardware market will turn…

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  • In defense of Dell and where to from here…

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Does Dell deserve to be lynched for attempting to register the ‘cloud computing’ trademark? I guess that depends a lot on their motives (which we will likely never know).…

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  • Sanity as a service: marketing gone mad

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.There’s been much ado over Dell’s (thus far unsuccessful) attempt to grab a large slice of the cloud computing landscape (‘clown computing’ is still available, thanks Dave), but it…

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  • Dell’s Notice of Allowance for ‘cloud computing’ CANCELED

    This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.No sooner do I finish posting about Dell, USPTO and ‘Trademark Insanity’ than does USPTO go an update the status of the offending trademark: Current Status:The Notice of Allowance…

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  • Dell, USPTO and ‘Trademark Insanity’

    This content is 16 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 not even been a week since I revealed my discovery of Dell’s trademark application #77139082 in the cloud-computing Google Group, and a few weeks since I actually discovered…

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