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BlogsTags > CloudThe demise of Google Reader: Stability as a serviceBy Mike LoukidesMarch 21, 2013 Om Malik’s brief post on the demise of Google Reader raises a good point: If we can’t trust Google to keep successful applications around, why should we bother trying to use their new applications, such as Google Keep? Given the … LISA mixes the ancient and modern: report from USENIX system administration conferenceBy Andy OramDecember 14, 2012 I came to LISA, the classic USENIX conference, to find out this year who was using such advanced techniques as cloud computing, continuous integration, non-relational databases, and IPv6. I found lots of evidence of those technologies in action, but also … Four short links: 20 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 20, 2012 Intercepted Drones — The demonstration of the near-disaster, led by Professor Todd Humphreys and his team at the UTA’s Radionavigation Laboratory, points to a “gaping hole” in the US’s plan to open US airspace to thousands of drones, Fox noted: … Four short links: 6 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 6, 2012 HM Government Consultation on Modernising Copyright (PDF) -- from all appearances, the UK Govt is prepared to be progressive and tech-savvy in considering updates to copyright law. Proof of the pudding is in the eating (i.e., wait and see whether the process is coopted by maximalists) but an optimistic start. Cisco Provides a Lesson (Eric Raymond) -- This is... Cloud Music: The Zombie Dinosaur Report
By Peter DrescherMay 20, 2012 Last year, a bunch of really smart people got together at a haunted mansion outside of San Antonio, Texas, to discuss audio trends and mobile technologies. Our group wrote a report describing a Utopian vision of what cloud music might look like. Jesse Robbins on the state of infrastructure automation
By Timothy M. O'BrienMay 11, 2012 OpsCode chief community officer Jesse Robbins discusses cloud infrastructure automation and the most surprising use of Chef he's seen so far. Complexity fails: A lesson from storage simplification April 11, 2012 Simple systems scale effectively, while complex systems struggle to overcome the multiplicative effect of potential failure points. This shows us why the most reliable and scalable clouds are those made up of fewer, simpler parts. Parts of healthcare are moving to the cloudBy Brian AhierMarch 12, 2012 Brian Ahier looks at offerings from CareCloud and athenahealth that combine cloud-based access with electronic health records. Four short links: 24 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 24, 2012 Excel Cloud Data Analytics (Microsoft Research) -- clever--a cloud analytics backend with Excel as the frontend. Almost every business and finance person I've known has been way more comfortable with Excel than any other tool. (via Dr Data) HTTP Client -- Mac OS X app for inspecting and automating a lot of HTTP. cf the lovely Charles proxy for... Business-government ties complicate cyber securityBy Howard WenFebruary 6, 2012 Is an attack on a U.S. business' network an attack on the U.S. itself? "Inside Cyber Warfare" author Jeffrey Carr discusses the intermingling of corporate and government interests in this interview. Strata Week: Genome research kicks up a lot of dataBy Audrey WattersJanuary 26, 2012 We take a look at the big data obstacles and opportunities for genomics, digital humanities scholars respond to Stanley Fish's mischaracterization of what they do with data, and Hadoop World and the Strata Conference merge. Strata Week: Genome research kicks up a lot of data January 26, 2012 We take a look at the big data obstacles and opportunities for genomics, digital humanities scholars respond to Stanley Fish's mischaracterization of what they do with data, and Hadoop World and the Strata Conference merge. Medical imaging in the cloud: a conversation about eMixBy Andy OramJanuary 16, 2012 It's a situation crying out for networked transfer, but HIPAA requires careful attention to security and privacy. Medical imaging in the cloud: a conversation about eMix
By Andy OramJanuary 16, 2012 It's a situation crying out for networked transfer, but HIPAA requires careful attention to security and privacy. Top Stories: January 2-6, 2012 
By Mac SlocumJanuary 6, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: Alistair Croll explained why the information economy is giving way to the feedback economy, Fred Trotter examined the epatient movement, and we looked at the three big stories that will shape the developer world in the months ahead. Developer Week in Review: 2012 preview edition 
By James TurnerJanuary 5, 2012 It's a brand new year, time to look ahead to the stories that will have developers talking in 2012. Mobile will remain a hot topic, the cloud is absorbing everything, and jobs appear to be heading back to the U.S. Four short links: 28 December 2011
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 28, 2011 Terrier IR -- open source (Mozilla) text search engine, now with Hadoop support. s3ql -- open source (GPLv3) Linux filesystem which stores its data on Google Storage, Amazon S3, or OpenStack. (via Adam Shand) Esprima -- open source (BSD) fast Javascript parser in Javascript. (via Javascript Weekly) Hogan.js -- open source (Apache) Javascript templating engine from Twitter. If it... Why cloud services are a tempting target for attackers 
By Jeffrey CarrDecember 5, 2011 Before organizations embrace the efficiencies and cost savings of cloud services, they should also closely consider the security repercussions and liabilities attached to the cloud. Why cloud services are a tempting target for attackersBy Jeffrey CarrDecember 5, 2011 Before organizations embrace the efficiencies and cost savings of cloud services, they should also closely consider the security repercussions and liabilities attached to the cloud. Four short links: 21 November 2011
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 21, 2011 Steve Jobs in Early NeXT Days (YouTube) -- documentary footage of the early retreats at NeXT, where Jobs talks about plans and priorities. Very interesting to watch this knowing how the story ends. I'm astonished by how well Jobs spoke, even then, and delighted by the glimpses of impatience and dismissiveness. I wonder where the raw footage went. (via... Four short links: 19 October 2011
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 19, 2011 OmniTouch: Wearable Interaction Everywhere -- compact projector + kinect equivalents in shoulder-mounted multitouch glory. (via Slashdot) Price of Bitcoin Still Dropping -- currency is a confidence game, and there's no confidence in Bitcoins since the massive Mt Gox exchange hack. vim Text Objects -- I'm an emacs user, so this is like reading Herodotus. "On the far side of... Publishing News: Amazon launched the HTML5 Kindle Cloud ReaderBy Jenn WebbAugust 12, 2011 In the latest edition of publishing news, the Kindle Cloud Reader's HTML5 platform offers a new level of content ubiquity, BookStats latest survey shows optimistic results for publishers, and a Seattle law firm alleges Apple and five US publishers colluded. Publishing News: Amazon launched the HTML5 Kindle Cloud Reader August 12, 2011 In the latest edition of publishing news, the Kindle Cloud Reader's HTML5 platform offers a new level of content ubiquity, BookStats latest survey shows optimistic results for publishers, and a Seattle law firm alleges Apple and five US publishers colluded. Apple and a web-free cloud 
By Alasdair AllanJune 16, 2011 From custom chips, to the data centers backing its new iCloud effort, Apple is committed to controlling the end-user experience. The web has no place in their vision. On Virtualization and The Cloud: The Most Ridiculous Article I've Read in a Very Long Time
By Caitlyn MartinJune 8, 2011 In a piece published this morning called Don't Throw Away Your Physical Servers Just Yet, the author, Ken Hess, wrote a piece that ridicules and derides anyone who doesn't virtualize literally all, as in every last one, of their servers. No, I'm not exaggerating. Behind the Scenes at OST
By Trent JohnsonJune 7, 2011 Trent Johnson, the lead systems administrator for OST, gives us the low-down on the recent expansion of OST's datacenter. The future of technology and its impact on work
By Jonathan Reichental, Ph.D.May 16, 2011 In this presentation, O'Reilly CIO Jonathan Reichental discusses a range of future technology trends and what it will mean for work and the workforce. How the cloud helps Netflix May 11, 2011 Netflix moved some of its services into Amazon's cloud last year. In this interview, Netflix cloud architect Adrian Cockcroft says the move was about building a scalable product and paying down technical debt. Feeding the community fuels advances at Red Hat and JBoss
By Andy OramMay 8, 2011 Red Hat's usual modus operandi is the precise inverse of most companies based on open source. This drives what I heard at Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, solid progress along the lines laid out by Red Hat and JBoss in previous years. Open question: Would you rent a laptop? April 29, 2011 Can't afford to buy a laptop? You might be Google's next target audience. New rumors suggest the Internet giant may be plotting to rent laptops, complete with hardware updates and repair as needed. The Whole Cloud, Part II: Suitability for the Cloud
By George ReeseApril 16, 2011 In my discussion of the Whole Cloud, I assumed as fact that a mature cloud computing infrastructure leverages all kinds of clouds. Given the amount of energy put into arguments on the subject, it's obviously not a given to most people. Today, I want to talk about how these different "pieces of cloud" can be integrated together from a decision-making perspective The Whole Cloud
By George ReeseApril 15, 2011 A few companies are currently well positioned to create a view of cloud computing that encompasses all aspects of cloud from IaaS to SaaS, public cloud and private cloud, internal and external. A mature cloud infrastructure, however, will be made up of all pieces of the cloud puzzle. A Proposal for Cloud State Notifications
By George ReeseApril 2, 2011 The cloud ecosystem needs a mechanism besides polling that enables monitoring, management, and automation tools to learn about changes in the state of cloud resources. This proposal attempts to define a simple protocol for notifying those tools through a push notifications system rather than polling. Publishing News: Week in ReviewBy Jenn WebbApril 1, 2011 In the latest Publishing News: Amazon extended its reach into the cloud, Dana Newman looked at overlapping issues between the Google Book settlement and Golan v. Holder, and what publishers need to do with all that data. Publishing News: Week in ReviewApril 1, 2011 In the latest Publishing News: Amazon extended its reach into the cloud, Dana Newman looked at overlapping issues between the Google Book settlement and Golan v. Holder, and what publishers need to do with all that data. Publishing News: Week in ReviewBy Jenn WebbJanuary 28, 2011 In this week's edition of Publishing News: We asked an open question about the true purpose of DRM; the ebook discussion shifted from DRM-locked files to URLs; and a bookstore might end up with a truckload of unwanted Kindles that Worldreader.org will happily take off their hands. Publishing News: Week in Review January 28, 2011 In this week's edition of Publishing News: We asked an open question about the true purpose of DRM; the ebook discussion shifted from DRM-locked files to URLs; and a bookstore might end up with a truckload of unwanted Kindles that Worldreader.org will happily take off their hands. What if a book is just a URL?By Jenn WebbJanuary 26, 2011 Australian indie bookstore Readings is in full experiment mode with a cloud-based pay-for-access model. Software and ebook files don't play a role -- everything is done through the browser. What if a book is just a URL? January 26, 2011 Australian indie bookstore Readings is in full experiment mode with a cloud-based pay-for-access model. Software and ebook files don't play a role -- everything is done through the browser. The Watering Hole - Does This Cloud Have a Silverlight Lining?
By James TurnerJanuary 9, 2011 What I found most amazing about the whole "Microsoft lost people's Hotmail e-mails" fiasco was that there were still people out there using Hotmail... Four short links: 5 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 5, 2011 Multi-tenant SaaS Checklist -- if you're used to building single-site web apps, this is a simple overview of the differences when building multi-tenanted web apps. Nominally about Java, ending with a plug for its author's product, but ignore all that and it's still useful. (via Abhishek Tiwari on Twitter) Angel Investing: My First Three Years (Paul Buchheit) -- interesting... Strata Gems: Whirr makes Hadoop and Cassandra a snap
By Edd DumbillDecember 22, 2010 The cloud makes clusters easy, but for rapid prototyping purposes, bringing up clusters still involves quite a bit of effort. The Whirr project makes cloud control simple. Cloud 2011: The Year of the Network
By George ReeseDecember 22, 2010 In spite of all the innovation that's happened in the recent years in the cloud, cloud networking remains in the dark ages. I expect that 2011 will prove to be the year of the network in the cloud. Reaching the pinnacle: truly open web services and clouds
By Andy OramDecember 22, 2010 The merger of free software with cloud and web services is a win-win. The transition will take a buy-in from cloud and SaaS providers, a change in the software development process, a stronger link between computational and data clouds, and new conventions to be learned by clients of the services. (Part 5 of a 5-part series.) Why web services should be released as free software
By Andy OramDecember 20, 2010 Let's put together a pitch for cloud and web service providers. We have two hurdles to leap: one persuading them how they'll benefit by releasing the source code to their software, and one addressing their fear of releasing the source code. Why clouds and web services will continue to take over computing
By Andy OramDecember 17, 2010 My long-term view convinces me we all will be in the cloud. The advantages are just too compelling. But what can we do to preserve freedom in the cloud? (Part 3 of a 5-part series.) Defining clouds, web services, and other remote computing
By Andy OramDecember 15, 2010 Technology commentators are a bit trapped by the term "cloud," which has been kicked and slapped around enough to become truly shapeless. So in this section I'll offer a history of services that have led up to our cloud-obsessed era, hoping to help readers distinguish the impacts and trade-offs created by all the trends that lie in the "cloud." My top 5 predictions for CIOs in 2011
By Jonathan Reichental, Ph.D.December 15, 2010 As we look to 2011, the enlightened CIO must go after the most valuable projects and be a trusted adviser to those who commit dollars to organizational goals. Strata Gems: Manage clusters with Mesos
By Edd DumbillDecember 14, 2010 As big data systems evolve rapidly, the Mesos project aims to solve architectural and management headaches. One to watch for 2011. Resolving the contradictions between web services, clouds, and open source
By Andy OramDecember 13, 2010 A "free software cloud" may seem to be an oxymoron. But I believe that free software and remote computing were made for each other; their future lies together and the sooner they converge, the faster they will evolve and gain adoption. (Part 1 of a 5-part series.) 1 to 50 of 106 Next Stay Connected
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