
Of little clouds and big clouds, local clouds and global clouds
Image: NASA Amazon’s globe-encircling cloud infrastructure is compelling to many. From Virginia to California, from Ireland to Singapore, and from Japan to Brazil; wherever you find yourself there’s a local instance of the same familiar set of services. And, in all likelihood, Australia will soon be added to the list. For those primarily interested in just serving […]

Research Shows Increased Cloud Adoption But Concerns Remain
Mimecast, a provider of cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, released the results of a survey sponsored by them. As it is always with any vendor sponsored research, one should take it with a grain of salt. However, it does offer some insight into cloud adoption in US and UK. I will highlight […]

How far would you go to get a job in todays market redux
Sarah Jones over at the IT Job Board UK has some interesting coverage on how far would you go to get a job in today’s market. In Mid 2009, I wrote about the idea that people would alter their skill sets and knowledge to land any gig in the area. At that point, it was […]

The Rise and Fall of Blognation: Follow up
It’s an interesting day in the ongoing saga of Blognation, Sam Sethi and Michael Arrington. While I have written about this in the past, there is one final chapter in this story, and that is the default judgment in a UK court against Michael Arrington. I will have to add this to the story of […]