Last Thursday night saw the second CloudCamp in London. The first one spawned: Nailing down the Cloud – A Definition for Cloud Computing? and this one was a sell-out gig, with the venue packed to capacity. The fact that a few hundred people came out on a cold wet London night to discuss Cloud Computing is a [...]

As far as the network is concerned, F5 Networks have become part of the furniture for most hosting providers, and I mean that in a good way. Load balancing across multiple servers has progressed a long way since the early days of Cisco’s Local Director, and Checkpoint’s early load balancing capabilities. F5 have evolved too. A number [...]

Next in the series of Interviews from IP08 is Meru Networks. US-Based Meru sits in the unusual situation of being a company that no-one has heard of, but everyone talks about. I’ll explain why in a bit, but first a little background on this wireless player. Meru has a strong engineering bent and a strategic [...]

Just about everything in the tech space is being sprinkled with a bit of ‘cloud’ magic right now. Anyone with a data center product, hosted application or storage service is sliding it under the ‘cloud’ umbrella. It is somewhat ironic, given the recent Amazon outages, but there is no doubting that cloud computing is hot. [...]

This little chap fell out of his nest outside of my office. He was ok, but it got me thinking about a long piece on Twitter over at The Go West blog…