Finally! It's been a long time coming, but the "morphing" of The Wisdom of Clouds I've hinted at a couple of times in the last month is finally here. Dan Farber and Margaret Kane, the good edito...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/12/wisdom-of-clouds-is-moving.html
One of the fun aspects of a nascent cloud computing market is that there are "veins" of innovative thinking to be mined from all of the hype. Each of us discover these independently, though the v...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/12/two-faces-of-cloud-computing.html
An interesting discussion ensued on Twitter this weekend between myself and George Reese of Valtira . George--who recently posted some thought provoking posts on O'Reilly Broadcast about cloud ...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/12/enterprise-barrier-to-exit-to-cloud.html
RPath's Billy Marshall wrote a post that is closely related to a topic I have been thinking about a lot lately. Namely, Billy points out that the effect of server virtualization hasn't been to s...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/what-is-value-of-it-convenience.html
It's been a busy week or so for Geva Perry and I, as we took Overcast to a joint podcast with John Willis's CloudCafe podcast, and had a fabulous discussion with Greg Ness of Archimedius.net . ...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/two-two-two-two-great-overcast-podcasts.html
There was an interesting announcement today from IBM regarding their new "Resiliant Cloud" seal of approval --a marketing program targeted at cloud providers, and at customers of the cloud. The i...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/is-ibm-utlimate-authority-about-cloud.html
I got to spend a few hours at Sys-Con's Cloud Computing Expo yesterday, and I have to say it was most certainly an intellectually stimulating day. Not only was just about every US cloud startup ...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/do-your-cloud-applications-need-to-be.html
Gotta luv the Ruv. One of the highlights of this week's Sys-Con Cloud Computing Expo was Reuven's session on World-Wide Cloud Computing , "presented" to a packed room filled with some of the mos...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/reuven-cohen-invents-unsession.html
Quick note before I go to bed. Amazon just announced their previously discussed content delivery network service, CloudFront , tonight. Jeff Barr lays it out for you on the AWS blog , and Werner...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/amazon-launches-cloudfran-ont-content.html
Thanks to Ron K. Jeffries' Cloudy Thinking blog , I was directed to Redmonk's Stephen O'Grady (who I now subscribe to directly) and his excellent post titled Cloud Types: Fabric vs Instance . St...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/why-choice-of-cloud-computing-type-may.html
There is a simple little truth that is often looked over when people discuss "moving to the cloud". It is a truth that is so obvious, it is obscure; so basic, it gets lost in the noise. That trut...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/in-cloud-computing-good-network-gives.html
I know I promised a post on how the network fits into cloud computing , but after a wonderful first part of my week spending time first catching up on reading, then one-on-one with my 4-year old ...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/two-announcements-to-pay-attention-to.html
As those of you that follow me on Twitter already know, last Friday (11/7) was my last day at Alfresco . Although my time there was very short, it was one of the most valuable experiences of my ...
We live in interesting times--in fact, historic times. From the highs of seeing the election of a presidential candidate inspire millions to see opportunity where they saw none before, to the low...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/quick-guide-to-big-four-cloud-offerings.html
Geva and I completed the second of our series of podcasts on Tuesday. This is a shortened conversation, as we only had a few days between recording numbers 1 and 2, but it covers some key announ...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/overcast-conversations-on-cloud_06.html
I had some business to take care of in downtown San Francisco this morning, and on my way to my destination, I strolled past Moscone Center, the site of this year's Dreamforce conference . The ne...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/salesforcecom-announces-they-mean.html
I'm happy to announce that Geva Perry and I have started a new podcast, titled "Overcast: Conversations on Cloud Computing ". The show covers cloud computing, virtualization, application infrast...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/11/overcast-conversations-on-cloud.html
There is an interesting twist coming out of the events of last week that I think warrants explicit notice. By "connecting the dots" on a series of observations, one can come to the conclusion tha...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/10/microsoft-azure-may-be-too-good-to.html
You may have seen some news about CohesiveFT's new product today --in large part thanks the the excellent online marketing push they made in the days preceding the announcement. (I had a great co...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/10/why-i-think-cohesivefts-vpn-cubed.html
Tucked in a backwater paragraph of this interesting interview with Microsoft corporate VP Amitabh Srivastava is an interesting note about the prioritization and pacing for rollout of Azure into...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/10/even-microsoft-is-cautious-about-legal.html
The Microsoft PDC2008 keynote presentation just concluded, and the team in Redmond announced Azure, a very full featured cloud PaaS allowing for almost the entire .NET stack to run in Microsoft's...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/10/microsoft-chooses-azure-paas-to-clouds.html
Update: Serious misspelling of Walmart throughout the post initially. If you are going to lean an argument heavily on the controversial actions of any entity, spell their name right. Mea culpa. T...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/10/is-amazon-in-danger-of-becoming.html
Big news today , as you've probably already seen. Amazon has announced a series of steps to greatly enhance the "production" nature of its already leading edge cloud computing services, including...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/10/amazon-enhances-proto-cloud.html
Thanks to Luis Sala , I was alerted tonight to one of the really big rumors working its way through the "cloud-o-sphere". Apparently, it was officially stated that Google AppEngine will be suppor...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/10/google-appengine-to-support-java-and.html
There is a dirty little secret about the current spate of cloud computing storage offerings out there today. Yeah, they are a powerful alternative to buying your own disks and filers or SANs, bu...
http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/10/significance-of-cloud-proxy.html