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Three days in Yorkshire 8 Jul 2013 | 07:06 pm
Unusually for me, I’ve found myself at reasonably local events over the past few days. Leeds last Wednesday to hear people discuss big data, York last Friday to talk about open data, and Hull today to...
A prism bends light. #PRISM reporting bends truth 7 Jun 2013 | 06:44 pm
I wasn’t going to talk about the current fuss around PRISM, but the speed with which conjecture, rumour and some (good) newspaper investigative work has turned into ‘fact’ and ‘truth’ online makes thi...
This is the news… today 23 May 2013 | 03:14 pm
Image © BBC 2013 I recently set up a new Tumblr site, in addition to my main blog here at cloudofdata.com. It’s been running for a few days now, and I’m deliberately posting just one entry each day t...
Cloud on merit, not by dictat 21 May 2013 | 05:36 pm
The #CloudFirst trend is spreading, with Government Minister Francis Maude finally committing the UK to the approach earlier this month. But I remain concerned that there’s too much stick and not near...
Unpicking the multi-cloud at GigaOM Structure 15 May 2013 | 08:46 pm
Image © Mission Bay Conference Center Last month, RightScale’s State of the Cloud report got me thinking about the rise of multi-cloud solutions. Next month, I’ll be moderating a Mapping Session at G...
Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance 15 May 2013 | 07:49 pm
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is holding its Forecast event in San Francisco in June, and I’ve been invited to moderate the panel discussing Virtual Machine Interoperability. As moderator, I’ll...
Getting it right with data attribution 10 May 2013 | 09:33 pm
There have always, it seems, been people for whom attribution and citation really matter. Some of them passionately engage in arguments that last months or years, debating the merits of comma placemen...
Seeking Simplicity’s Sweet Spot 9 May 2013 | 07:10 pm
Albert Einstein, you may have heard, was a clever man. He scribbled equations on blackboards, thought big thoughts, and all of that. But, allegedly, he also said Everything should be made as simple a...
Find the data, aggregate the data, make the data useful 4 May 2013 | 12:12 am
I was in New York in March, taking part in GigaOM’s Structure:Data event. As usual on these trips, I spent the day before the event walking around the city, soaking up some air, getting rained on, usi...
Xeround, and a tale of evolving business models 2 May 2013 | 06:49 pm
Last night, cloud database company Xeround announced that they’re shutting down the version of their service hosted in public clouds such as Amazon, Rackspace, GreenQloud, and others. Users of the fre...
