Cloud computing

Technology can empower the ‘have nots’: thoughts for a Monday

October 19, 2009

First one Well, for this section: it’s the thoughts of Richard Holway, eminent tech industry analyst: Roaming (By Richard Holway Saturday 17th Oct 09) Back in 2003, I introduced my ‘Martini Moment’ theme – basically the ultimate aim was to be able to access the internet ‘anyplace, anytime and from any device’. Since then I [...]

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Cloud Computing – white papers

September 7, 2009

This is the second of three planned posts to bring together some useful introductory material around Cloud – designed to give a balanced view, and cover the upsides as well as the challenges (e.g. security): Videos (from YouTube) This one, Whitepapers (from Scribd) Presentations Because these are written works, necessarily there is more scope for [...]

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Cloud Computing – YouTube videos

September 4, 2009

Context I’m one of many who sees Cloud Computing as a major industry trend, which could be very disruptive [or then again it could all be hype ;-D]. This is the first of three planned posts to bring together some useful introductory material around Cloud – designed to give a balanced view, and cover the [...]

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Bigging up Cloud Camp / Seminar, & ‘Wii are the Champions’

July 7, 2009

In wanting to help Ross Cooney plug these events, I thought I’d re-produce his e-mail of today: “I am working with the organisers of a few IT related events based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne  on the 29th July and was thinking that you might be interested in attending some or all of these events: CloudSeminar CloudCamp Wii [...]

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SCL joins NEESPR!

June 17, 2009

A post to announce that Souter Consulting Limited has joined the North East Service Provider Register. So, if you are looking for assistance around Social Media strategy & fulfilment (e.g. how can I use blogging & Twitter for my business?) Document, Information & Knowledge Management, and using collaborative technologies in general Management of Change to [...]

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SCL Narrative – my thoughts: your feedback please

June 5, 2009

I’ve been kicking some ideas around for a while about what SCL is for – what is the Big Picture? Those who know me know that I think in pictures. So, instead of publishing a long-winded explication, I’m publishing this mindmap to get my thoughts into the Public Domain, and hopefully to garner some feedback [...]

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Session Two: (Disturbing the Universe) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services Alex Hunter, Virgin Group Tara Shears, Large Hadron Collider & Liverpool University Curtis Wong, Microsoft Live blog Session Two: (Disturbing the Universe)

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SCL in the News & at Events

May 12, 2009

South by South West Quick post spurred by a great article about Souter Consulting that appeared in North East England’s daily newspaper, The Journal. Lewis Harrison of Thinking Digital was instrumental in getting this article into The Journal’s Business Section, with the article written by Andrew Mirnin. I had forgotten about this, being in the [...]

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Cloud Camp North East

March 25, 2009

A post re a discussion of Cloud Computing at which I presented earlier this week. I have typed up my notes from the Q&A session fyi. On Tuesday night I spent the evening in the Company of some Cloud Computing luminaries, at Cloud Camp North East England. There were presentations from FlexiScale, RightScale, CloudSoft, Sun [...]

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Cloud Computing: Defending the Undefinable

March 17, 2009

PRESENTERS Kevin Gibbs – Google App Engine Yousef Khalidi – Microsoft Werner Vogels – Amazon.com DESCRIPTION The brave new world of cloud computing is radically changing how we build web applications. What is a platform, what is a service, and how will the future of web applications be built? More importantly, how do these various [...]

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