Cloud Computing

Cloud Capability – Thoughts from Dr Werner Vogels – Amazon’s CTO

Posted by Ian Burgess on July 4, 2010 at 2:15 pm

This is a  presentation from Amazon’s CTO at where he defines his definition of cloud and other interesting points, The explanation of cloud and the focus on the reasons why business are adopting the cloud.

OSCON 09: Simon Wardley, “Cloud Computing – Why IT Matters”

Posted by Ian Burgess on June 6, 2010 at 1:49 pm

This is a really good outline of Cloud fromSimon Wardley from Canonical.

SymetrIQ at the Cloud Computing World Forum

Posted by Ian Burgess on June 2, 2010 at 9:00 am

Today has been a good day as SymetrIQ has been put forward for an award in the category of “Best Cloud Service” at the Cloud Computing World Forum which will take place on the 29th of June at the Olympia Conference Center in London.

The Future of the IT Services Firm

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 15, 2010 at 6:29 pm

The presentation from the Drowning Director event for the JCF hosted by the BCS. The Future of the IT Service Firm View more presentations from ianburgess.

Larry Ellison & Ed Zander at the Churchill Club

Posted by Ian Burgess on April 11, 2010 at 9:58 am

An interesting look at the future of the industry with Larry Ellison the CEO of Oracle.

What is Cloud Computing?

Posted by Ian Burgess on November 15, 2009 at 12:25 pm

In my working life the concept of Cloud Computing comes up in discussion all the time whether it is looking at migrating SAAS applications over to the Cloud or developing applications to run in the Cloud from the launch. You still have to put the idea over to the project stake-holders and investors and sometimes [...]

Google Wave: Under the Hood

Posted by Ian Burgess on October 29, 2009 at 11:00 pm

Currently the development projects that are being discussed or I am currently working on are around SAS products and tools to integrate within existing collaborative platforms. The architecture of Google Wave is explained clearly in this video and it has shaped the way that I am structuring these developments. Its worth the hour to watch [...]

Google Wave Need an Invitation

Posted by Ian Burgess on October 2, 2009 at 8:48 pm

Still trying to get a invite for Google Wave and reading everything I can on it at the moment. Found this really good video explains Google Wave. As open source products go this may have the most impact on web development so I am following with great interest.

CloudCamp Scotland

Posted by Ian Burgess on September 24, 2009 at 7:26 am
CloudCamp Scotland

I attended the CloudCamp event in Edinburgh University last night and was really impressed by the format, turn out and the most Pizza I have ever seen in one location. There were well over 100 attendees and some fantastic speakers the event passed quickly. The speakers included: Alexis Richardson of RabbitMQ as MC Max Robbins on Geo-balancing [...]

Google Wave

Posted by Ian Burgess on June 1, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Google Wave snapshots inbox

I have just been watching this and think that Goggle may have just unveiled the future of collaboration software. Although in its infancy and with concerns around security and other elements this should make dispersed team communication much easier and may spell the end of share-point as a corporate tool in it current form. (I [...]