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September 10, 2009
Hybrid Clouds - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group
Last night I attended the Cloud Computing Group’s meeting on Hybrid Clouds.
The guest presenter was Paul Lancaster from GoGrid. Paul attempted to get through his slide deck (about 12 slides) in a timely fashion. However, there were so many questions/opinions that his presentation took over an hour. The questions varied widely – one high-level observation is that “cloud computing” still means many things to many people. Also, the cloud experience level of the audience was all over the map, with some just learning about the concept and others quite experienced with a particular vendor (AWS, etc).
GoGrid’s particular cloud offering was interesting and quite a bit different than AWS. However, being the AWS fanboy that I am, I didn’t find GoGrid compelling enough to warrant a switch. Of particular note, they are privately funded with ~130 employees. Given the costs of infrastructure, I would worry about their ability to geolocate, QoS and scaling in general.
I’m looking for a copy of the slidedeck and will add if I can find it online.
Posted by davehod at 11:31 AM | Comments (0)
September 08, 2009
Top 20 VC Bloggers OPML
Eric Schonfeld has a Techcrunch post this morning on the latest edition of Larry Cheng’s Top 100 VC bloggers (list is based on the number of subscribers each blog has on Google Reader)
To avoid having to add each blog manually in your feed reader, I made an OPML file of the Top 20 bloggers on the list available here
Quick refresher on how to import OPML into Google Reader from the FAQ:
11. Can I import an existing subscription list?
If you're switching from another feed reader, you can import your existing subscriptions into Google Reader. To do this, you first have to export your subscriptions in a standard format called OPML (see the next question to learn how to do this). Once you have your OPML file, go back to Google Reader and click "settings" at the top right, then "import/export." Choose the location of your OPML file and click "import"; Google Reader will add all the subscriptions in the list to your account and start checking them for updates
Posted by davehod at 02:36 PM | Comments (0)