Okay.  I am teh lam3r.  I'd be intellectually dishonest if I didn't post this, and it's likely I'll revise it once I get to think about it more, but I've got to get it down.  Thanks to an innocent tweet from @botchagalupe I had an aneurysm epiphany.  Sort of ;) A little light went on in my head...

The last couple of weeks before the holidays I worked on an interesting project. It involved assembling pretty much everything Sun offers for HPC into a single coherent demo and throwing in Amazon EC2 to boot. This post will explain what I did and how I did it. Let's start at the beginning. One of t...

Ever wonder what it takes to get a IT system up and running as a nonprofit under 25 people? In these difficult economic times, it’s really important to get your act together regarding your nonprofit’s finances. When I started out in the tech industry in the 1990s, IT departments were sti...

Well it’s official.  My company, Helpstream, has now been running our application entirely on Amazon Web Services for a week and we’re very happy with the result–it’s better, faster, and cheaper.  We’ve gotten a more robust system for our multitenant SaaS application ...

  Lena 66 Great Eastern StreetEC2A 3JT Date of Last Visit: Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 The Victim: Charles The Damage: £35 for two The Background: My hot water has been acting up for AGES. It's very inconsistent. Some days, I have hot water. Some days, I don't. At all. And some days, I have somet...

Clouds are the new big thing, and like most rising technology concepts that you can give a single word or acronym to, its not something you can some up in a single sentence. This post is really to help me get my head around latest developments as you'll find better expert commentary elsewhere. VMwar...

That’s right, folks. I am posting this entry via a remote desktop connection to a virtualized server at Amazon’s vast server farm in Seattle, Washington. What am I talking about? Maybe the announcement that Amazon’s cloud computing platform, EC2, is out of beta with Windows support...

Pimp My Drive by Richard and Barb There’s remarkably little information online about using MySQL on ZFS, successfully or not, so I did what any enterprising geek would do: Built a box, threw some data on it, and tossed it into production to see if it would sink or swim. I’m a Linux geek,...

Amazon Web Services - The new site offers better navigation and easier access to the content related to each service. All of the relevant options and links are available in a series of convenient pull-down menus. It is now much easier to find AWS news, events, and media coverage. Dedicated sections ...

GigaOM’s Structure 08 event offered a terrific opportunity to survey the changing landscape of computing infrastructure. But as with all technology shifts, innovation won’t just belong to the big established players like VMWare, Amazon, Google, Sun Microsystems, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. With...