Southern California Linux Expo(SCaLE 8x) Recap

February 23, 2010

In a time when many tradeshows are experiencing lower then normal attendance the 8th Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 8x) had record attendance this past weekend in Los Angeles. I was there exhibiting and conducting a community training day for Zenoss and was very impressed by not only the quality of the program but [...]

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Twitter and Open Source

February 19, 2010

How do you build one of the busiest websites on the Internet? You wouldn’t guess the right answer to be, “You download some free software and hack  it”…Actually  the question is how do you build one of the world’s busiest websites that will scale affordably? You use open source software.
Twitter showed everyone their cards recently [...]

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Cloud Computing Use Cases

February 17, 2010

The folks from the Cloud Computing Manifesto , a group dedicated to open standards for cloud computing, have released a new whitepaper, Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper version 3.0.
Here’s their description of the paper:
Version 3 of the White Paper addresses the importance of Security in the Cloud. Security in the Cloud is consistently raising [...]

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Amazon EC2 in 10 Easy Steps

February 17, 2010

I have been watching Amazon EC2 progress but I had never deployed one on my own. I really wanted to see if it lived up to the hype. So far it does. I have been using an Amazon S3 account already to back up my blog and some other files and wanted to see if [...]

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Cloud Computing and Virtualization Resources

February 15, 2010

I have been a little bit stubborn on my concession that cloud computing is really going to be the wave of the future. Though lately I have been playing with a lot of cloud related technologies and am hooked. Spin up 10 (or 100) Linux servers in a minute from a web page with no [...]

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