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  • Getting started with OpenStack in your lab

    This content is 12 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Having recently finished building my new home lab I wanted to put the second server to good use by installing OpenStack (the first is running VMware ESXi 5.0 with…

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  • Simplifying cloud: Reliability

    This content is 12 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Reliability in cloud computing is a very simple concept which I’ve explained in many presentations but never actually documented: Traditional legacy IT systems consist of relatively unreliable software (Microsoft…

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  • Cloud computing’s concealed complexity

    This content is 12 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.James Urquhart claims Cloud is complex—deal with it, adding that “If you are looking to cloud computing to simplify your IT environment, I’m afraid I have bad news for you”…

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  • John McCarthy: Father of cloud computing dies

    This content is 12 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it. If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone…

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  • VDI: Virtually Dead Idea?

    This content is 12 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’ve been meaning to give my blog some attention (it’s been almost a year since my last post, and a busy one at that) and Simon Crosby’s (@simoncrosby) VDwhy? post…

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  • Citrix OpenCloud™ is neither Open nor Cloud

    This content is 14 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’ve been busying myself recently establishing the Open Cloud Initiative which has been working with the community to establish a set of principles outlining what it means to be…

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  • Trend Micro abandons Intercloud™ trademark application

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Just when I thought we were going to be looking at another trademark debacle not unlike Dell’s attempt at “cloud computing” back in 2008 (see Dell cloud computing™ denied)…

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  • Introducing Planet Cloud: More signal, less noise.

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it. Update: PlanetCloud was retired after several years when news sources caught up with cloud coverage. As you are no doubt well aware there is a large and increasing…

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  • Press Release: Cloud computing consultancy condemns controversial censorship conspiracy

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.SYDNEY, 24 December 2009: Sydney-based Australian Online Solutions today condemned the government’s plans to introduce draconian Internet censorship laws in Australia. Senator Stephen Conroy (Minister for Broadband, Communications and…

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  • Cloud or Not?

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.As it seems people still just don’t get what is, and what is not (coughSidekickcough) cloud computing, I’ve put together a (tongue-in-cheek) flowchart to help you decide:

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