I just wanted to let everyone know of a free software cloud management framework I’ve been building.  If you’ve read the CCIF mailing lists or my twitter, then you’re probably already aware of it.  This project is called Annelidous (www.annelido.us).  It enables the building of public and private cloud infrastructure services (IaaS), API agnostic frontends, [...]

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admin on April 23rd, 2009

Richard Stallman has requested that I stop using the word “cloud”, saying that it is too nebulous a term.  The following is based on the reply I gave him. I’m not sure that it is feasible or advisable in either formal business context or documentation to completely eliminate the term cloud” at this time.   This [...]

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admin on April 4th, 2009

I decided that one tweet would just do justice for this great event.  I’ll start by saying that I honestly had a very good time. The people from Sun were all great, and I’m grateful that they hosted us. The food and open bar were excellent, although it was a shame that the lobby was [...]

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