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Saasu Drops Freemium–Some Users Balk at the Change

Saasu Drops Freemium–Some Users Balk at the Change

By Ben Kepes on January 8, 2013

On New Years Eve, while on a holiday skiing trip in the French Alps, expat Aussie and Clouderati ringleader Sam Johnston wrote a series of tweets exclaiming his anger about a change that cloud accounting vendor Saasu had made to its terms and conditions. earlier this year, a Saasu blog post advised customers that it […]

Posted in Business | Tagged cloud computing, google, james urquhart, Lance Walley, New Years Eve, saasu, sam johnston, software as a service

Cloud is Simple. Well, It’s Real Complex but that Complexity Can, and Should, be Hidden from Users.

Cloud is Simple. Well, It’s Real Complex but that Complexity Can, and Should, be Hidden from Users.

By Ben Kepes on February 15, 2012

An interesting discussion occurred on the CloudU LinkedIn group recently. It was started by an awesome post from James Urquhart admonishing people to accept the fact that Cloud is complex and to simply deal with it. The inimitable Sam Johnston posted an interesting response, the essence of which was that, while Cloud is undoubtedly complex, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Application programming interface, CloudComputing, Information Technology, james urquhart, linkedin, sam johnston | 1 Response

Cloudology–All That is Bad About IT

Cloudology–All That is Bad About IT

By Ben Kepes on December 4, 2011

I haven’t got a lifetime’s experience in IT. Rather than an impediment in my career however, I’ve found that having come from a varied background has given me a degree of perspective that perhaps some of my lifers don’t enjoy. Case in point – this Cloudology diagram that Simon Wardley pointed out to me recently […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged CloudComputing, james urquhart, service management, simon wardley, software as a service, twitter, Wardley, werner vogels | 3 Responses

Podcast: Open Source and Cloud Computing

Podcast: Open Source and Cloud Computing

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 21, 2010

I have been advocating the role of Open Source in a Cloud based world. Recently, I got a chance to sit and talk with Geva Perry and James Urquhart on their podcast about the relevance of open source in a cloud based world. You can download the podcast here or head over to the podcast […]

Posted in General | Tagged cloud computing, geva perry, james urquhart, open source

Digging into Berkeley's View of Cloud Computing

By Paul Miller on February 17, 2009

In two posts in the past week, Krishnan has mentioned the recently published Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing. As he mentioned, this report has been the talk of the Cloud community in the past few days, and opinion has been pretty divided as to some of its language and interpretations. Over […]

Posted in General | Tagged above the clouds, berkley, cloud computing, cnet, james urquhart

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