Paul Miller

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Everyone who wants to do so should have had their chance to read the Open Cloud Manifesto by now, and to see the list of companies putting their names to it. As expected, Microsoft, Google and Amazon are not there.
Reuven Cohen of Enomaly is one of those involved in bringing the Manifesto to [...]

 

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Over on the Financial Times‘ Techblog last night, Richard Waters asked ‘Is the Pentagon ready to stick its head in the cloud?‘
He was extrapolating from a job advert at Amazon, which seeks someone with
“the business savvy and the technical background necessary to help establish Amazon as a key technology platform provider in the federal, state [...]

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It began, as so many things do these days, with an idle tweet.
On 21 November, Amazon Web Services‘ Deepak Singh pointed to a new page describing the company’s ‘Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services.’
Lidija Davis covered the news for ReadWriteWeb two days later and on 4 December Amazon issued its [...]

As I escaped the tedium of early morning traffic to slurp up some (free) wifi and (non-free) coffee beside the UK’s M1, Amazon’s Deepak Singh was winding down to the end of a day on Pacific Time with a tweet to announce the availability of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers on this side of the [...]