fighting the lack of good ideas
Cloud computing has been hyped for the last decade+. For those few of you haven’t heard of it and understand it, cloud computing is a computing-as-a-utility concept wherein compute (and storage) happens on systems which you may not own. That’s it. So – now that we’ve been offloading our storage, computing, and other tasks to…
In my ongoing hunt to find worth-while tech books (most recently in the field of cloud computing), I’m here today to write about Cloud Computing in Easy Steps by David Crookes. First to note – this book is NOT about how to deploy cloud computing. It is about how to use lots of free and inexpensive options if you…
In Neal Stephenson’s seminal book, Cryptonomicon, he describes the creation of a “data haven” in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Why has no-one started building such a service (or, at least not in a public way) on existing cloud services (eg AWS or Rackspace) and/or create their own global network? Data backup and replication is not…
Yet another link I found off Hacker News, the Backblaze storage pod – 67 Terabytes of storage in a rack-mountable unit for <$8k. I’d love one or two or 80 of these in my spare bedroom 🙂
So I missed predicting anything like this one. If you’ve been under a rock, like apparently I was last week, you’ve missed out on hearing Dell is purchasing EMC. For $67 billion. With a “B”. This seems to be taking lots of people by surprise, but it makes perfect sense: Dell is already a huge supplier of servers into not only…
In update to my recent how-to, I found out from the founder of Pydio there are dedicated clients now. IOW, you don’t have to use just the WebUI. I haven’t tried any of them yet, but good to know they’re now there – it makes comparing Pydio and other tools like ownCloud easier.
Besides the fact that I have a referral code, I think Digital Ocean has done a great job of making an accessible, affordable, cloud environment for folks (like me) to spin-up and -down servers for trying new things out. You can’t beat an average of 55 seconds to get a new server. There are other…