We explore ongoing industry concerns around the security or otherwise of Cloud Computing, and discuss the role of developments such as CloudAudit in ensuring a degree of transparency and accountability moving forward.

This podcast was recorded on Wednesday 11 August, 2010.

During our conversation, we referred to the following resources;

• Cloud Application Architectures
• CloudAudit
• Cloud Security Alliance
• enStratus
• Financial Services Authority (FSA)
• HIPAA
• Chris Hoff’s Cloudifornication
• USA PATRIOT Act
• Valtira

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In my latest podcast I talk with Ric Telford, Vice President for Cloud Services at IBM.

I spoke with Kristof Kloeckner – the company’s CTO and VP Cloud Computing Platforms – last year, and in my conversation with Ric we get updates on IBM’s journey into the Cloud. He touches on some of the work involved in bringing traditional enterprise customers along for the ride.

Perhaps orthogonal to the industry’s current angst around public, private and hybrid Clouds, Telford sees a valid and valuable role for ‘industry clouds,’ optimised to handle the particular workloads of a given vertical. The first of these rolled out today to the collaborative healthcare market, and we discuss some of the potential of this approach. If it can work in the highly regulated health sector, can the same ideas be deployed more easily – and cheaply – to other verticals?

This podcast was recorded on Thursday 5 August, 2010.

During our conversation, we referred to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• Cast Iron
• Cognos
• IBM Cloud Computing
• IBM Security Framework
• Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
• Lotus Live
• Microsoft Windows Azure (and my podcast with Amitabh Srivastava)
• Open Cloud Manifesto (and my podcast with Reuven Cohen)
• Open Stack
• Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
• Rackspace (and my podcast with Lew Moorman)
• Salesforce.com (and my podcast with Adam Gross)
• Sharp Community Medical Group
• Smarter Planet
• Thomas J. Watson

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Formed as a partnership between Microsoft and Accenture, Avanade focuses upon delivering IT solutions based upon Microsoft’s suite of technologies and products, including Cloud offerings such as Azure and the company’s Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS).

I discussed Azure in a podcast with Microsoft’s Amitabh Srivastava last year, and in this latest conversation Scott and Bob share some of the experiences Avanade has gained in rolling out over 1.3 million BPOS seats to a wide range of enterprise clients.

This podcast was recorded on Wednesday 28 July, 2010.

During our conversation, we referred to the following resources;

• Accenture
• Amazon
• App Fabric
• Avanade
• Avanade Cloud Computing
• Azure
• BPOS
• Hotmail
• Java
• Lotus Notes
• Microsoft
• Microsoft Live@Edu
• PHP
• Werner Vogels

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This podcast was recorded on Friday 16 July, 2010.

I spoke with John Sheridan of the Government’s Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) back in July of 2009, when this programme was just taking shape. More recently, Talis‘ Richard Wallis recorded a podcast with Richard as data.gov.uk formally launched earlier this year, and his colleague Zach Beauvais followed up with a videocast to explore some uses for the data.

During our conversation, we referred to the following resources;

• ASBOrometer
• Tim Berners-Lee (and my podcast with him)
• Combined Online INformation System (COINS)
• Creative Commons
• Crown Copyright
• data.gov.uk Applications Gallery
• Government Open Data Licence
• The Guardian‘s COINS interface
• IDeA
• JSON
• Linked Data
• Local Government Association (LGA)
• Local Data Panel
• Francis Maude
• mySociety
• National Archives
• Office of National Statistics
• Open Data Commons
• The Open Knowledge Foundation‘s COINS interface
• Ordnance Survey
• OS Open Data
• Public Data Principles (Draft)
• REST
• Rufus Pollock
• Nigel Shadbolt (and my podcast with him)
• SOCITM
• SPARQL
• Jeni Tennison’s recent data.gov.uk blog post
• Tom Steinberg (and my podcast with him)
• Transparency Board
• Treasury
• Where Does My Money Go?

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We discuss the premise behind the book, and delve into David’s perspective that the ‘semantic web’ is far broader than many have traditionally thought.

During our conversation, we mention the following resources;

• Business Rules Markup Language (BRML)
• Creating Killer Web Sites
• eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
• Futurize Your Enterprise
• GoodRelations, and my podcast with Martin Hepp and Jamie Taylor
• Kayak
• Linked Data
• NeuroCommons
• PubSubHubbub
• Pull
• Pull website
• Resource Discovery Framework (RDF)
• Science Commons
• Secrets of Successful Web Sites
• Universal Product Code (UPC)
• weather.com
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• Wolfram Alpha
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• XBRL, and my podcast with Diane Mueller

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“GoodRelations is a language that can be used to describe very precisely whatyour business is offering. Some people call GoodRelations a ‘data dictionary’, others prefer ‘schema’ or ‘ontology’. But the name of the thing is not important. Important is that you can use GoodRelations to create a small data package that describes your productsand their features and prices, yourstores and opening hours, payment options and the like.

You simply paste this data package into your Web page using W3C’s RDFa format.”

Martin and Jamie talk about the vocabulary itself, before moving on to the some of the ways in which it transforms commerce on the Web for early adopters such as Best Buy and O’Reilly.

The conversation – and its implications – are also covered in this post on ZDNet today. Links to some of the sites and resources mentioned during our chat are included here, after the fold.

• Best Buy
• Bing
• DBpedia
• DERI
• Drupal Ubercart
• GoodRelations
• GoodRelations Cookbook
• GoodRelations Developer Wiki
• Google
• Google Product Feed Converter
• HTML 5
• Freebase
• Linked Data
• Magento
• Metaweb
• O’Reilly Media
• osCommerce
• Ping The Semantic Web
• RDF
• RDFa
• RDFS
• Sindice
• SPARQL
• STI
• UPC Code
• Universität der Bundeswehr München
• VirtueMart
• Yahoo!
• Yahoo! BOSS

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Backed by Paul Allen‘s Vulcan Capital, Seattle-based Evri is using semantic technologies to

“change the way consumers discover and engage with content on the Web.”

Via the site at evri.com, users are able to explore news-like topics of interest. Through partnerships with The Washington Post, Hearst and others, Evri is also able to reach established audiences on those sites. An API enables developers to leverage Evri in their own applications, and the forthcoming version 2 of Evri promises further capabilities.

As well as discussing Evri itself, we explore some of Will’s views on the changing role of semantic search, and the potential for this fledgling market to reach wider consumer awareness and adoption. Have a listen, and see what you think.

Links to some of the resources mentioned during our conversation follow, after the cut…

• Bing
• Business.com
• DARPA
• Evri
• Evri’s iPhone application
• Farecast
• Gap
• Google
• Hearst Corporation
• Go2.com
• Insightful Corporation, now part of TIBCO
• Overture, now part of Yahoo!
• Powerset, now part of Microsoft
• Rich Snippets
• SearchMonkey
• Siri
• Vulcan Capital
• The Washington Post
• Yahoo!

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Earlier this week Flip and I got together on Skype to reprise some of the conversation as a podcast, which is now available.

Production of this podcast was supported by Talis.

My arrangement with Talis concludes with the release of this podcast, so if you want to keep listening to my content you will need to subscribe directly to my feed, either on this site or in iTunes. Talis podcasts continue without me, and you can find their various channels aggregated here.

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I spoke with Felix recently to record a podcast exploring the issues that Collibra sets out to address for their growing band of large enterprise customers.

Production of this podcast was supported by Talis.

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