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Rackspace Cloud – Test 2

{ January 11th, 2010 }

Hello, it's been a while since we've posted anything but no worries, I have been experimenting with the Rackspace Cloud. As mentioned in our previous post, I started using it to host websites and applications. It is considerably more cost...Continue Reading

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Open Source and the Cloud

{ October 13th, 2009 }

So Cloud Computing has become a buzzword in most information technology circles. Pick up any tech magazine or read any tech blog and you'll see a few articles about the cloud computing. We now have cloud service providers such as...Continue Reading

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RackSpace Cloud – Test 1

{ September 30th, 2009 }

If you refer to one of our previous posts, we talked about wanting to get involved in the cloud computing. After much deliberation we chose RackSpaceCloud. The pricing was great and let's face it, I like to support solutions from...Continue Reading

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The WebOS and Business IT

{ September 8th, 2009 }

I was reading through ZDNet and saw an article about The WebOS and how it is already beginning to affect Business IT. In businesses all over the globe, we are seeing changes to the traditional data infrastructure. If we rewind...Continue Reading

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Amazon Private Cloud

{ August 30th, 2009 }

Information Week reports that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has unveiled their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud service. It is essentially going to be an isolated portion of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud that is only accessibly via virtual private network. This new service...Continue Reading

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An AI of pure evil?

{ August 14th, 2009 }

So I was reading through Scientific American when I came across an interesting artcile. In Troy, NY Selmer Bringsjord is trying to discover the root of all evil (which I always thought was the love of money). He is a...Continue Reading

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Microsoft Acknowledge Linux as a Threat?

{ August 8th, 2009 }

A few days ago I was on Slashdot and came across an interesting article about our friends at Microsoft. Microsoft has listed Red Hat, Inc. and Canonical, Inc. as competitors to their Windows client application while they performed their annual...Continue Reading

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Torchlight Cloud Experimentation

{ July 29th, 2009 }

Hello everyone. I was looking up some web applications. Most of the stuff I was looking at was of course open source, php-based software. I am looking at invoicing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management...Continue Reading

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Microsoft and Yahoo! team up to take Google

{ July 29th, 2009 }

Just now I read that Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally joined forces and are going to gang up on Google.  We all remembe when we last left our friend, there was a failed merger attempt. Their goal then is the...Continue Reading

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Google to Create an OS?

{ July 14th, 2009 }

Amazing news, Google, the one most non-technical people only for it's search engine and the neat email tool, has decided to launch their own Operating System (see details here http://bit.ly/jIsIN).  This is meant to compete with the popular Microsoft Windows...Continue Reading

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