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Alan Williamson's personal output as a Java Champion, BlueDragon Founder, Blog-City Architect, Cloud expert, Author, Speaker, and Internet Guru

Amazon have released a slew of new features and products for their cloud. But as usual, the devil is in the detail. I go into some of the issues and discover that this may not be for everyone.
Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Have you seen the exact location of where the infamous house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off is situated? Not as remote as the movie would have you believe
Thursday, 28 May 2009

Preparing to take our Cloud Boot Camp Road Show to Prague
Tuesday, 12 May 2009

If you need another monitor, but don't want the hassle of installing a new graphics card, or messing around with power supplies and drivers, then give this MIMO monitor a try. It is a truly amazing piece of kit.
Friday, 6 March 2009

Flying to America? Remember to fill out your ESTA form and don't use Google Chrome, they don't want you to come
Monday, 12 January 2009

Amazon, finally after years of providing just a command line interface to their web services, released a web based management console. Has it been worth the wait? Read the review of their first web based offering.
Friday, 9 January 2009

Okay, so this is wishful thinking on my part, Amazon taking the initiative and renaming their very powerful SimpleDB product Amazon Registry. Let me present my case for why they should.
Sunday, 7 December 2008

With ElasticServer you can now build your own custom server image with OpenBD installed, choosing your own J2EE and database server. Deploy straight to Amazon EC2. Can't get easier.
Wednesday, 3 December 2008

What makes a true cloud offering? What must a company offer before it can make the cloud claim? I examine the 3 criteria that for me defines a true cloud offering.
Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Twilio a new startup from Amazon's ex Product Manager Jeff Lawson will soon be coming out of private beta to offer cloud like telephony services.
Saturday, 8 November 2008

Cloud providers, like their name sakes, do blow away leaving clear blue skies. Cloud providers aren't selling miracle cures - yet people are buying as if they were. Who is at fault when things do go wrong?
Thursday, 30 October 2008

Yesterday Microsoft finally released their vision for their offering into the cloud space. They have published a whitepaper on Azure. Here is a list of the highlights that Azure has to offer.
Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Ever wondered where our clouds actually physically reside? In a forever virtualised world its easy to forget sometimes that you actually do end up running on bare-metal at some point. The BBC has an interesting article on one such data center.
Monday, 27 October 2008

For our upcoming cloud bootcamp in San Jose, we have a special guest appearance from the co-founder of one of the most popular cloud management consoles available today; Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale.
Friday, 24 October 2008

Amazon have officially got rid of their beta status and are now ready to be used properly! Amazon have hinted at what is coming up in the future, and what we are cloud wanderers are to expect from them and others in the space.
Thursday, 23 October 2008

GoGrid is an alternative cloud platform to the likes of Amazon. They too have an API allowing you to build your own UI. If you want a complete single no-fuss Java class to control GoGrid, then look no further.
Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Kirk Pepperdine has started to move his benchmarking knowledge to the world of clouds. We are going to start seeing some real reports as one of the worlds leading Java performance tuning experts turns his attention to the world of clouds.
Thursday, 16 October 2008

I will be presenting at Amazon's upcoming London road show on how we are using their web services technology. If you are in London the 4th November then stop by.
Friday, 10 October 2008

Amazon have recently reduced the price of their S3 service. But they are not the only player in the field. We've introduced a simple online storage calculator to let you see how they compare.
Thursday, 9 October 2008

Stephen Fry recently published an article on cloud computing. Like many others he got it completely wrong and was describing nothing more than what the Internet is. Cloud computing is not the second coming.
Monday, 6 October 2008

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