Talking to Simon Wardley about Ubuntu and the Cloud
Image via Wikipedia Most readers of this blog are probably well aware that a new version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution is coming this week, and that it will be putting code from the Open Source...
View ArticleEUCALYPTUS Project closes $5.5 Million Series A with Benchmark, moves out of...
It’s only a few short weeks since I last spoke with Rich Wolski, Director of the open source EUCALYPTUS Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “EUCALYPTUS — Elastic Utility Computing...
View ArticleZmanda CEO talks about Backup and the Cloud
Chander Kant is Founder and CEO of Zmanda, a provider of Open Source backup solutions that exploit the capabilities of Cloud storage services (such as Amazon’s S3) to supplement the traditional...
View ArticleSun moves their Cloud forward at CommunityOne
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Sun Microsystems used the CommunityOne East event in New York City this past March to unveil their Cloud Computing offering. I spoke with the company’s Juan Carlos...
View ArticleGarlik releases Open Source RDF triple store, claims capacity for 60 billion...
Garlik CEO Tom Ilube is increasingly coming to represent a voice of reason in the UK’s ongoing angst about Identity, with many a hysterically gibbering Home Office official put in their place by Tom’s...
View ArticleDavid Eaves talks about Vancouver’s Open Data initiative
Image via Wikipedia Back in May, ReadWriteWeb reported on a Motion put before legislators in the Canadian city of Vancouver. Duly passed, the Motion commits the city to three closely related ‘open’...
View ArticleIf Government is a Platform, what are people building?
I’ve written and spoken before about a recent upsurge in enthusiasm for exposing data from Government in ways that facilitate use and re-use, and will doubtless be returning to this topic in the...
View ArticleTalking with Jim Curry about OpenStack and the Cloud
In my latest podcast I talk with Jim Curry, VP Corporate Development at Rackspace and Chief Stacker at OpenStack. The OpenStack activity was unveiled by Rackspace, NASA, and their partners back in...
View ArticleOpen is good – but encouragement better than mandate
Image via Wikipedia Openness is undeniably cool right now, at least if you move in the slightly odd circles that I do. Openly available scientific papers are disrupting the world of scholarly...
View ArticleData Market Chat: Stephen O’Grady of RedMonk examines the bigger picture
Image via CrunchBase RedMonk don’t offer a data marketplace and, so far as I know, they have no intention of doing so. Nevertheless, this series of data market podcasts would not have been complete...
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