Friday Video: On The Brink Of A Networked Society
It is Friday and we need some food for thought for the weekend. Here is an interesting video which we thought might be interesting to CloudAve readers. Thanks to Reuven Cohen for the link
Video: Future According To Microsoft
Today Microsoft released a concept video about how they see the future of productivity is going to be. We would like to share the video with our readers. I am not sure what timeline they are talking about but I will expect most of what is shown to be available in 3-5 years. Some of [...]
Video: Cloud In The Eyes Of VCs
From time to time, we post videos from different vendors on their take about cloud marketplace. Below is a video of Okta CEO, Todd McKinnon, talking to two of their VCs Ben Horowitz (from Andreessen Horowitz) and David Weiden (from Khosla Ventures) about their take on where cloud is heading. While we take pride in [...]
THE SOCIAL PHD: 9 Sure Fire Ways to Become a Social Business (Video)
We were able to assemble a powerful cast of experts to give the rest of us advice on becoming a Social Business. But we did it with one catch. We asked these 9 experts to do it in under 60 seconds. Thank you Robert Lavigne for essentially doing all of the video, post production and [...]
Bing Maps Data Center Time Lapse
This is pretty cool. A minute and a half time lapse of a data center build out in Colorado. It’s kind of interesting, in a hardware hacker geek kind of way. :) (Cross-posted @ Composite Code)
Dell Takes On Proprietary Clouds With An OpenStack Solution
Last week at OSCON 2011, Dell unveiled Dell OpenStack Cloud, its OpenStack based solution to go against the likes of IBM targeting both the enterprise and service provider markets. While talking about Dell’s attempts against the unified computing efforts by IBM, Cisco, HP and Oracle, I highlighted how Dell is taking a more “open” approach [...]
OSCON: Energy + Awesome + Space Exploration + Hacking
I wanted to post these two keynotes from OSCON 2011. They really bring out the spirit of exploration, adventure, care, and doing things bigger than oneself. This is about doing things that go beyond the cat picture of the day. These presentations, well, I’ll let them speak for themselves. Absolutely great!
OSCON Week: Eucalyptus Systems
I was at OSCON 2011 for two days. Like last year, OpenStack was garnering the media attention this year too. I thought I should check out the other open source cloud platform (open core, to be precise), Eucalyptus Systems, and see how they are doing. I spoke with Brady Murray, Director of Alliances at Eucalyptus [...]
Enterprise Tablets: Hurry and Get One Before They Are Gone
The Cius is here. That makes two enterprise UC tablets: Cisco Cius and Avaya Desktop Video Device with the Flare Experience. First some clarifications and differences, then a few conclusions. These devices do not compete with each other. The Cisco Cius is for Cisco UC customers and the Avaya Desktop Video Device is for Avaya [...]
Danger Will Robinson
The new next big thing is Telepresence robots. At least that’s what some people think. I think not. With any luck, telepresence robots are currently experiencing their peak in popularity. That probably isn’t the case – telepresence robots may become the perfect yardstick for ego measurement, but I seriously doubt they will positively impact productivity. [...]
WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free
I’ve been wanting to get a write up done for WordPress on AWS, the fact that it is free for a year, since they’ve released the free-tier many months ago. Well I finally got around to it, however it isn’t a write up. I went ahead and put the work in to produce a video [...]
Will Amazon’s Video Streaming Service Hurt Netflix?
Amazon recently announced a video streaming service available for free to their Amazon Prime subscribers. From what we have heard in the media, Amazon will end up offering a competitive service to Netflix. We all know that Netflix has recently moved most of their infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. In this post, I will briefly [...]
Circle Pull Explosion!
The Inception of Circle Pulling from Bobby Johnson on Vimeo. Also check out Bobby’s Cover here and here of the Harmony Hill Hackathon! It was a blast. :) (Cross-posted @ Composite Code)
Rework Reminder (Kill your BDUF, Code Smells, Anitpatterns, Etc ASAP!)
Rework is ok. Refactoring is ok. BDUF (Big Design Up Front) is bad. Minimal amount to get to market is good. Getting to market is good. Don’t get into analysis paralysis. Best book that cleanly cuts to the chase I’ve read in a long while: Rework …and a few friendly reminder videos. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlw0aLp14Us httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3imeeLHiA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJFTC9C_IBk [...]
Deploy Kaltura 3.0 On AWS In 15 Minutes
Kaltura, the open source video platform, recently announced the release of Ver 3.0 of its community edition bringing parity with their commercial offerings. The key highlights of this version is the availability of the same feature set of the commercial offering and an easy way to deploy their software on the cloud. More than 100,000 [...]
