Paul Miller

The Cloud of Data


Archive for February, 2009

Security: reason or excuse ?

Image via Wikipedia I just published a piece over on CloudAve, reporting the results of a Cloud Computing survey commissioned from Kelton Research by Avanade. The survey of over 500 senior executives from companies in seventeen countries appears to suggest that cost savings and efficiency gains are being sacrificed because of significant concerns about security [...]

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Talking about Data and the Cloud at TTI/Vanguard, San Diego

I’ve been in San Diego this week, attending an excellent TTI/Vanguard event on Cloud Computing. I’m just about to stand up for my presentation, a copy of which I’ve uploaded to Slideshare. The audience is senior, and easily one of the most engaged I’ve come across for a while. After a ten minute grace period, [...]

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Podcasting ‘A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing’

Making the most of being in California’s timezone this week, I was pleased to be able to spend some time talking with two of the authors behind Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing, which was published online last week. I spoke with Armando Fox and Dave Patterson, both of Berkeley’s RAD Lab, [...]

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Linked Data and the Enterprise: a viable two-way street

In a pair of blog posts yesterday, Andreas Blumauer of Austria’s Semantic Web Company touched on an area that has been absorbing my attention recently, and raised some questions worth exploring here. I am travelling to San Diego next week to speak about the importance of evolving Enterprise attitudes to data. Borrowing some nice turns [...]

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IBM seeks to paint the Cloud blue

Image via CrunchBase As widely expected, IBM will this week unveil a new Cloud Computing Division and a set of technological solutions intended to appeal directly to large enterprise customers currently wary of entrusting their mission-critical services to the Cloud. Various sites carry the story this morning, including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal‘s Digits [...]

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