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Cloud Headaches?
The industry is abuzz with people who are freaked out about the outages that Amazon and other cloud vendors have had. “Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud Customers,” says InformationWeek! This...
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Beware the Deceptive SLA, My Friend
We’re trying to come to an agreement with a SaaS vendor about performance and availability service level agreements (SLAs). I discussed this topic some in my previous “SaaS Headaches” post. I thought...
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Austin Cloud User Group Nov 17 Meeting Notes
This month’s ACUG meeting was cooler than usual – instead of having one speaker talk on a cloud-related topic, we had multiple group members do short presentation on what they’re actually doing in the...
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Our Cloud Products And How We Did It
Hey, I’m not a sales guy, and none of us spend a lot of time on this blog pimping our company’s products, but we’re pretty proud of our work on them and I figured I’d toss them out there as use cases...
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But, You See, Your Other Customers Are Dumber Than We Are
Sorry it’s been so long between blog posts. We’ve been caught in a month of Release Hell, where we haven’t been able to release because of supplier performance/availability problems. And I wanted to...
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Report from NIWeek
Hey all, sorry it’s been quiet around here – Peco and I took our families on vacation to Bulgaria! Plus, we’ve been busy in the run-up to our company convention, NIWeek. I imagine most of the Web type...
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What Is Cloud Computing?
My recent post on how sick I am of people being confused by the basic concept of cloud computing quickly brought out the comments on “what cloud is” and “what cloud is not.” And the truth is, it’s a...
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Speeding Up Releases
Hi all! My new job’s been affording me few opportunities for blogging, but I’m getting into the groove, so you should see more of me now. Releasing All The Time! Continuous integration is the bomb....
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Velocity 2013 Day 3 Liveblog: Retooling Adobe: A DevOps Journey from Packaged...
Retooling Adobe: A DevOps Journey from Packaged Software to Service Provider Srinivas Peri, Adobe and Alex Honor, SimplifyOPS/DTO Adobe needed to move from desktop, packaged software to a cloud...
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The Cloud Procurement Pecking Order
I was planning to go to this meeting here in town about “Preparing for the post-IaaS phase of cloud adoption” and it brought home to me how backwards people are generally thinking about cloud. So now...
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