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Mosso’s Cloud Files API
I had some time to kill on a train today, and I amused myself by trying out the API for Cloud Files. I decided I’d build something mildly useful: a little shell-like wrapper and accompanying tools for...
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An initial Mosso foray
I had an hour to kill today after a client didn’t show for a call… everyone’s taken off for T-day, I guess. Since Rackspace has a 30-day money-back guarantee on Mosso at the moment, along with a nice...
View ArticleExcerpt: Touring Amazon’s management console
Excerpt: Click here to read the original. The newly-released beta of Amazon’s management console is reasonably friendly, but it is not going to let your grandma run her own data center. I took a bit of...
View ArticleExcerpt: The value, or not, of hands-on testing
Excerpt: Click here to read the original. At Gartner, we generally do not do hands-on testing of products, with the exception of some folks who cover consumer devices and the like. Yet, the...
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SourceForge puzzles me. I think it’s the combination of what is obviously eager effort to improve the site, and the fumbling to get the basics right. On the plus side, SourceForge recently made a very...
View ArticleTrialing a lot of cloud IaaS providers
I’ve just finished writing the forthcoming Public Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant (except for some anticipated tweaks when particular providers come back with answers to some questions), which has twenty...
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Mosso’s Cloud Files API
I had some time to kill on a train today, and I amused myself by trying out the API for Cloud Files. I decided I’d build something mildly useful: a little shell-like wrapper and accompanying tools for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An initial Mosso foray
I had an hour to kill today after a client didn’t show for a call… everyone’s taken off for T-day, I guess. Since Rackspace has a 30-day money-back guarantee on Mosso at the moment, along with a nice...
View ArticleExcerpt: Touring Amazon’s management console
Excerpt: Click here to read the original. The newly-released beta of Amazon’s management console is reasonably friendly, but it is not going to let your grandma run her own data center. I took a bit of...
View ArticleExcerpt: The value, or not, of hands-on testing
Excerpt: Click here to read the original. At Gartner, we generally do not do hands-on testing of products, with the exception of some folks who cover consumer devices and the like. Yet, the...
View ArticleA little SourceForge frustration
SourceForge puzzles me. I think it’s the combination of what is obviously eager effort to improve the site, and the fumbling to get the basics right. On the plus side, SourceForge recently made a very...
View ArticleTrialing a lot of cloud IaaS providers
I’ve just finished writing the forthcoming Public Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant (except for some anticipated tweaks when particular providers come back with answers to some questions), which has twenty...
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