16 Oct
Posted by: Trevor in: Amazon, Cloud Computing, Hosting, Oppportunity, Utility
Behold Sinners! The Apocalypse Aproacheth. No in all seriousness if you run a managed hosting company then your time is officially ‘up’. You won’t survive the coming hosting Apocalypse. Here’s why.
There are a few companies you may have heard of building large compute grids for consumption by the general public. They’re calling them their Cloud [...]
Hi everyone!
I’m looking for some help answering some questions to help LayerBoom and some associated projects determine what companies and individuals really want in their own “Cloud Computing” environment.
I know the Term has been getting worn out, so to summarize, LayerBoom is providing software that helps companies build utility computing environments using existing hardware and [...]
08 Oct
Posted by: Trevor in: CDN, Colocation, Enterprise, Hosting, Oppportunity, Strategy, Sun
There are a lot of ways for companies to bootstrap, and even more companies and partners willing to lend a helping hand if you know who to ask, and where to look. One of the companies that’s willing to help is Sun Microsystems.
Through their Startup Essentials program, companies can get access to Sun gear and [...]
03 Oct
Posted by: Trevor in: Amazon, Cloud Computing, Eucalyptus, Portability, Uncategorized, Utility, Xen
I’ve been working on a project that lets you quickly move systems between your private Xen implementation and Amazon’s EC2 service. There are a lot of hurdles to get this to work, and most of them are surrounding how Amazon doesn’t let you download a Kernel or Ramdisk image out of S3 unless you’re the [...]
