A podcast with Felix Van de Maele, discussing Collibra
Steve Ardire introduced me to Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Brussels-based Collibra, at the Defrag conference in Denver last month. We met again at the European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC), where Collibra won the seedcamp event. I spoke with Felix recently to record a podcast exploring the issues that Collibra sets out to address [...]
November’s Semantic Web Gang podcast now online
November’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang podcast, which I host, is now online.
Lew Moorman, President of Rackspace Cloud, talks about customers, interoperability and more
Rackspace has been in the mainstream hosting business for over a decade, and was amongst early entrants into the utility computing market with the launch of Mosso back in 2006. Now rebranded as The Rackspace Cloud, the company’s Cloud Computing offering is one of the most widely used in the industry, probably sitting in second [...]
Kepes in the Clouds (Sans Diamonds)
My fellow Editor, Ben is to modest to post it, so I will do it: Due to the volume of listener response – including much Twitter discussion #Follow Friday, and #journchat and more — to its first panel on SaaS (Software as a Service) VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network has asked ‘Cloud Evangelist’ Ben Kepes to [...]
Talking with Kristof Kloeckner about IBM and the Cloud
With an enterprise-friendly combination of hardware, software and professional services, IBM should be well placed to work with wary CxOs as they try to understand the extent to which Cloud Computing makes sense within their own business. Announcements earlier this year, as I said at the time, seemed geared toward building and sign-posting an easy [...]
Built-in Support for the Cloud Makes Ubuntu Something Special
Krishnan wrote about the next version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, back in March and said; Essentially, Ubuntu has decided to focus on developing features which will help propel Ubuntu Server edition to play a major role in the Cloud infrastructure ecosystem By incorporating code from Project EUCALYPTUS into this latest version of the Linux distribution, [...]
In conversation with 3Tera's Bert Armijo
Continuing my ongoing series of conversations with Cloud Computing’s proponents, yesterday I spoke with 3Tera co-founder Bert Armijo. The result has just been released as a podcast, in which we talk about 3Tera, their ‘five nines’ SLA, and Bert’s perspectives on the rather fluid boundary between enterprise data centres, private compute resources outside the enterprise, [...]
Windows Azure explored, in conversation with Amitabh Srivastava
Microsoft‘s Ray Ozzie revealed the company’s Cloud Computing aspirations at their Professional Developers Conference (PDC) last October, when he unveiled Windows Azure. Intended – at least initially – to run in Microsoft’s own data centres, Azure is an integral part of the company’s efforts to retain and grow marketshare as aspects of their existing business [...]
Balancing Platforms and Applications at Salesforce.com
With steady growth, more than $1Bn in revenue last year, and a PR-grabbing tour just getting underway, Salesforce.com remains a company to watch in the Cloud Computing space. As the New York Times‘ Ashlee Vance put it this week, [Salesforce CEO Marc] Benioff describes himself as ‘the Billy Graham of cloud computing.’ And last week, [...]
HP sees opportunities in the Cloud
Hewlett-Packard‘s VP and CTO for Cloud Services Strategy, Russ Daniels, has an interesting job that encompasses far more than ‘simply’ worrying about how HP’s existing data centre business can adapt to the rise of utility computing. In a wide-ranging conversation that provides insight into the breadth of HPs interest and ambition, he recently spoke with [...]
Rich Wolski discusses Grids, Clouds, and the past, present and future of EUCALYPTUS
Rich Wolski is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the Eucalyptus Project. Rich joined me at the end of last week for a conversation about Eucalyptus, and the result has just been released as one of the podcast series I’m continuing to produce for [...]
Appistry releases CloudIQ Manager; co-founders talk about their company and the Cloud
St. Louis, Missouri-based Appistry [CloudAve coverage] announced CloudIQ Manager yesterday, describing it as; a smarter approach to cloud computing. As companies migrate their heterogeneous applications to cloud-based environments, Appistry CloudIQ Manager provides a single point of application management across the enterprise. Ahead of this announcement, I spent some time last week talking with two of [...]
Talking to CEO Michael Crandell about RightScale and Cloud Computing
Continuing my ongoing series of conversations with those shaping the Cloud Computing landscape, yesterday I spoke with Michael Crandell of Santa Barbara-based RightScale [CloudAve coverage]. The result has just been published as a podcast. RightScale is one example of a growing industry segment that seeks to disguise some of the complexity of maintaining (and, crucially, [...]
University moves 50,000 accounts to Zimbra in a private Cloud
‘Fresh’ after a trans-Atlantic flight to Los Angeles, a two hour drive down the coast to San Diego, and a night somewhat disturbed by the clanking of goods trains, I had to read my copy of the Wall Street Journal more than once to be sure of what I was seeing. But yes, sure enough, [...]
Nick Carr Discusses Cloud Computing and the Economic Climate
Nick Carr’s 2008 book, The Big Switch, has been closely associated with the rise of Cloud Computing in the minds of many; especially in the wider business world where these ideas are yet to achieve the prevalence that we expect for them over the next few years. With the paperback edition of Carr’s book just [...]
