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I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

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What cloud computing is NOT

The Wall Street Journal just published an article trying to define cloud computing. Although hardly anyone can be faulted for not understanding the cloud (ahem) of jargon spewing from every marketing department of every IT department scrambling to be relevant without actually innovating, I wanted to help by offering a sort of proof by contradiction. [...]


A good week for cloud computing

Amazon offers 99.95% SLA Amazon announced today that it was exiting beta and offering a 99.95% SLA within a region. Hopefully this is going to put some cloud naysayers to rest, at least on the reliability front. Amazon is offering accountability in the form of service credits if it violates the SLA. Now this may [...]


What is Cloud Computing?

The term Cloud Computing is on the rise according to google trends. But what does it all mean? Just like “Web 2.0″ it’s an overloaded phrase with tons of connotations and many attempts at definition. While perusing a cloud blog by James Urquhart, I was inspired to try to define the term myself. So here’s [...]


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