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In a world of niche Clouds, how do you define a useful niche?

In a world of niche Clouds, how do you define a useful niche?

By Paul Miller on December 15, 2010

There are a couple of interesting posts on the blog of the UK’s FLESSR project, detailing their efforts to work out how feasible it might be to offer a new Cloud service to universities. More on that in a moment. I don’t think I’ve ever really been convinced by the argument that everything will end […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Andy Powell, cloud computing, data center, Eduserv, Enterprise Computing, FleSSR, iaas, JISC, Joint Information Systems Committee, rackspace, vmware

Do we need a Registry… to register technologists’ numerous contradictory uses of the term?

Do we need a Registry… to register technologists’ numerous contradictory uses of the term?

By Paul Miller on October 18, 2010

The act of registration seems ingrained in all of us, especially where dealing with ‘authority.’ That seemingly random agglomeration of letters and numbers on the back and front of our cars? A registration number. We visit the Registry Office in order to make births, marriages and deaths official. Indeed, in the dark days before it […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged ckan, Enterprise Computing, JISC, Joint Information Systems Committee, registry, uddi

Repositories in the Cloud? Why on earth not?!

Repositories in the Cloud? Why on earth not?!

By Paul Miller on February 22, 2010

To be honest, I’ve never fully understood Higher Education’s penchant for building ‘institutional repositories.’ These frequently under-populated aggregations of academic papers produced by ‘research active’ employees of a particular university appear aligned almost exclusively to vaguely expressed institutional imperatives, and seem largely unrelated to either the selfish aspirations of the contributing authors or the tangible […]

Posted in Analysis, Infrastructure | Tagged Academic publishing, Amazon Web Services, Andy Powell, Archives, aws, cloud computing, Colleges and Universities, Eduserv, Higher Education, infochimps, Institutional repository, JISC, Open access, open data, Panton Principles, repcloud, research, software as a service

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