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ok, i give up. Why did the turle cross the road - Lorraine Ball

This was a response to the following: http://twitter.com/mhanco... - James Urquhart

It tasted awesome, too! :) - James Urquhart

I doubt it but we will see - Robert Burgin

As a user of the storage service, I wouldn't trust my data to live on some strangers system...interesting idea, but flawed business model IMHO. - Greg Lato

Have you seen any demos of "IBM CloudBurst service management pack"? Is this supplying some way to script or setup rules/policies that orchestrate the usage of all of the other provisioning and management tools in the "CloudBurst rack"? - Gary Stiehr

That is my understanding, yes. - James Urquhart

Twitter Search sucks. Now you know. - Robert Scoble

same thing happened to me, earlier. - Edgar Rodríguez

First time its happened to me in a long time. Just wierd that the two posts were condemning the assassination of Dr. Tiller and the commenting on black fiber (dedicated to the intelligence community) getting cut. Hmmm. - James Urquhart

There is not doubt that cloud computing will trigger new business opportunities. High end processing of various digital forms of data is certainly a compelling example. But will new market places be formed before cloud standards mature? - James Urquhart

Wow. Missed this announcement, but kudos to Javier and team for a very interesting play. As William notes here, now SpringSource has the opportunity to extend built-in monitoring beyond the application to the infrastructure and middleware systems. - James Urquhart

Phil Wainewright highlights one of the really interesting trends in technology start-ups: companies building their businesses on other businesses. Salesforce.com has companies launching on Force.com, and Phil highlights the Rootstock launch on NetSuite. Keep an eye on this trend - James Urquhart

More on customer service in the cloud - James Urquhart

Accountants are actually one of the surprising early adopters of cloud computing. (Perhaps it is because of the number of small accounting businesses.) Vinnie asks an interesting question at the end of this post. - James Urquhart

Simon Phipps clarifies his position on Google App Engine's Java implementation (he loves it!) and calls for a Java Cloud Profile to prevent Java Mobile-like splintering of execution pofiles. I heartily support that suggestion, and agree with Simon that it would be nice to see Google take the initiative here. - James Urquhart

An interesting cluster architecture that may have a place in the cloud... - James Urquhart

That's like saying the set of integers is larger than the set of real numbers. - Todd Hoff

You're right, there's definitely the same spirit. And there doesn't appear to a PC type technology waiting to blow the cloud off the map like was done to timeshare. - Todd Hoff

UCS benchmarks are in, and they rock. I know I'm supposed to be biased, but you have to admit this is eye-opening, sexy, next generation performance--kind of like the Ferrari linked to from the post... - James Urquhart

That's a little unfair James. Padmasree got a HUGE artificial boost by being picked by Twitter for its recommended follower list. You've gotta take most of those 245,000 off if you are going to compare the two. Before Padmasree was added to that list she only had a few thousand followers. - Robert Scoble

@scobleizer Wow. Can of worms. All I can say is that I agree its not fair to compare the two--except for a laugh, to drive more followers to Lew, and encourage him to be more active...that's all I'm going to say about it. - James Urquhart

From @rachelchalmers. Thunder volcano computing? - James Urquhart

How can you talk about delivery on a deal that hasn't been announced? That's taking speculation just a tad too far IMO - Dennis Howlett

Not at all. If the rumored acquisition wasn't all over the press, it would be just a guessing game. However, for an analysis piece, speculating what would happen if the rumor was true is fair game, IMO. - James Urquhart

In my world that's called either 1. a bad news day or 2. making it up as you go along - Dennis Howlett

This is a very interesting model for cost comparisons of IaaS services. Using the vocabulary of operational analysis, Theodore Orntzigt shows how some basic pricing comparisons can be thought out. GoGrid comes out well against Amazon in his first example. - James Urquhart

Interesting Java development model for EC2. - James Urquhart

Cool generalist post about the "retro-lution" going on in the database space as application developers begin to see that not all problems are relational, thus not all databases should be relational. Good high level writeup from Google. - James Urquhart

Interesting article covering a spread of very high scale cloud architectural concepts. Worth a read for the geekiest of you out there. - James Urquhart

An excellent review of the Berkeley paper, "A Berkeley view of cloud computing", released last week. I didn't read the paper in depth, so some of this I can't refute or support, but my cursory view of the paper led me to many of the summary conclusions as well. In fact, as a result of this, I may spend time in the next couple of days reading this in depth. - James Urquhart

This post contains both FUD and sage advice regarding the challenges facing enterprises addressing the cloud. FUD like "when we allow services to be delivered by a third party we lose all control over how they secure and maintain the health of their environment and you simply can’t enforce what you can’t control." That's exactly what we do with our money in banks. Sage advice like "it will result in incremental improvements to IT service delivery marked by cyclical periods of confusion, pain, disillusionment, and success, just like almost everything else in IT..." Amen, brother. - James Urquhart

The tireless Sam Johnston cronicals several Google notes of interest (this from the end of January). Seems Sam is voting for Java as the next Google App Engine language. That would certainly be a game changer. - James Urquhart

"Two places to pick up the conversation: My new blog on CNET: http://news.cnet.com/the-wis... The Greg Ness founded http://infra20.com" - James Urquhart

Think the cloud is risky for enterprises? Think about what it means to the providers. Never fear, however, the insurance industry is near to mitigate that risk. Check out this video in which Drew Bartkiewicz of The Hartford talks about the new product they have put together around cyber privacy and security risks. - James Urquhart

This is a very cool article about gaming in the cloud. I am beginning to expect this will be a huge topic late '09 and throughout '10. - James Urquhart

Great coverage of the Mag.nolia data corruption scandal...yes, I said scandal. I know this stuff is difficult, and that there is much that can go wrong in a web-scale application, but seriously--no guarantee that bookmarks prior to, say, last Monday would be restored? Big time fail. - James Urquhart

With little governance, are we living in the "wild west" days of cloud computing? I would argue the need isn't so much for governance itself (a customer's responsibility) but governance automation (which would need customer and provider components to do thoroughly). - James Urquhart

Two interesting comments in this article. 1) Dell employee state that no one has a corporate cloud solution (not sure I agree) 2) New Infoworld cloud blogger calls for a public cloud for academia. Intercloud, here we come! - James Urquhart