This post carries on from CloudCamp London, and picks up one of the themes of my special guest post on James Govenor’s RedMonk blog. During the second half of the event I shepherded the “standards and interoperability” open space, alongside Matthias Kohl of Zimory. The session started off on potential standards for system images. While that sort of portability [...]

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 testimony [...]

Rackspace (UK site here) has been in the news, and rattling around the blogosphere a fair amount these last few weeks. Not just because they are the top dedicated hosting provider (see Gartner report), but because of their recent adventures:

Acquired on-line storage company Jungle Disk.
Acquired specialist hoster Slicehost. (see Rich Miller’s post)
Struck a CDN Deal with Limelight Networks (detail [...]

A comment from Chris of Cohesiveft, reminded me that an update is due on London CloudCamp. The notional October meeting is now actually happening in November, details here. It kicks off at 6pm with drinks and registration, followed by a series of lightening talks, then 3 ‘open spaces’ discussions. Expect a who’s who of the UK [...]

I don’t often put a “?” and a “!” in a post title, but today deserves it, mostly because of this post on WebGuild. I like the thinking (shown in a nice diagram) that makes a continuum from on premise to SaaS (Software as a service, not a misspelling of the airline). Licensing runs from traditional perpetual [...]