Paul Miller

The Cloud of Data


Archive for April, 2009

Eric Hillerbrand sees a profitably semantic future for our relationship with brands

There tends to be quite a gulf between those who concern themselves with brand management and selling stuff on the one hand and those who get excited about RDF, OWL and the Semantic Web on the other. Whilst the Semantic Web remained an interesting area of research that was perhaps understandable, but as semantic technologies [...]

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A podcast conversation with 3Tera co-founder, Bert Armijo

Founded in 2004, California-based 3Tera markets AppLogic; ‘a Grid operating system that virtualizes almost any application’ to make it easier for customers to benefit from Cloud Computing techniques both inside and outside their own data centres. Yesterday I spoke with Bert Armijo, one of 3Tera’s co-founders and now the company’s Senior Vice President for Sales, [...]

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Looking forward to San Jose in June

Image via Wikipedia My favourite technology event last year was, undoubtedly, the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, California. An interesting mix of Enterprise and geek attendees, combined with slick organisation and an engaging programme all came together to ensure a worthwhile and stimulating few days. This year’s programme looks even better, and I’ll definitely [...]

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Amazon tethers balloons for now; attention turns to crunching data in the Cloud with Elastic MapReduce web service

Image via Wikipedia Amid mounting international concern that the guidance lasers aboard Jeff Bezos‘ new Floating Amazon Cloud Environment would interfere with Rudolph‘s sense of direction, sources close to the Amazon Web Services team tell me that they’ve been forced to alter priorities and switch attention to an early release of the next product on [...]

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