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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

CloudU Webinar Recap: Does Data Want to be Free?

CloudU Webinar Recap: Does Data Want to be Free?

By Ben Kepes on October 14, 2011

Last week we had the latest CloudU webinar, this time looking at the role of Open Standards in Cloud Computing. I was really excited to be joined on the call by Scott Sanchez, someone who is intimately involved with one of the biggest Cloud Open Standards plays, OpenStack. As well as Sanchez, we were joined […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged CloudComputing, CloudU, data, google app engine, oci, open cloud initiative, Open standard, openstack, sam johnston, Scott Sanchez

Microsoft's Private Cloud Is #NotACloud?

Microsoft’s Private Cloud Is #NotACloud?

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 8, 2010

Image by ahockley via Flickr While talking about Private Clouds on Twitter, Sam Johnston (who is currently with Google and involved in OCCI , Cloud Audit, etc.) used to refer to them as #notacloud. His argument is that the so called Private Clouds are nothing but virtualization with management interface slapped around it. Even though […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged azure, microsoft, mugalia, private cloud, sam johnston

OpenECP, An Enomaly ECP Fork

OpenECP, An Enomaly ECP Fork

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 9, 2010

Image via CrunchBase I am a strong supporter of Open Source Software and a proponent of the importance of open source in cloud computing. It is my strong opinion that open source will empower the customers giving them access to the software even after the company behind the product goes out of business. In this […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged enomaly, open cloud, open source, openecp, reuven cohen, sam johnston | 2 Responses

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