The Velocity Conference wrapped up yesterday. It was a sold out show - and just the kind of crowd that we like to see! The whole conference was based on web operations, and the conference goers were very enthusiastic. Many of the sessions were standing room only. It was personally great for me to be [...]

 

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The day is winding down for us in San Francisco, but not without HyperLINKS. Here are today’s top stories:
Daniel Brusilovsky stopped by our booth at Velocity and interviewed the team regarding CloudStatus. Check out his podcast here
In other news, IBM has opened up two new cloud computing centers, one in South Africa and [...]

It’s been a very exciting day today with the launch of our new service, CloudStatus, but we couldn’t forget about HyperLINKS. Here are today’s top picks:
Speaking of CloudStatus, TechCrunch’s Nik Cubrilovic, posted about today’s launch

In other cloud news, InformationWeek’s Richard Martin and J. Nicholas Hoover provide a comprehensive outlook on cloud computing, including information [...]

As the world moves to cloud computing, service level insight gets foggier. Don’t let your performance get lost in the clouds.
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It’s the first official day of summer, and it sure feels like it in San Francisco. Here are today’s HyperLINKS:
More moving and shaking for Yahoo! The founder of del.icio.us, Joshua Schachter, has announced that he is leaving Yahoo as well, among several other higher-ups
In an interesting article, Kara Swisher writes about the massive [...]

Another hot day in San Francisco means another hot day for HyperLINKS!
After taking a couple weeks off for some “planned vacation and relaxation,” former open source developer at Yahoo, Jeremy Zawodny, has landed a job with Craigslist
Seven years in the making, Red Hat has decided to open source the Red Hat Network satellite server.
In [...]

The day is not over without HyperLINKS! Here are our top picks:
The stories about Google’s App Engine outage yesterday keep on coming. ComputerWorld’s Nancy Gohring reports on the outage
CNET dubs Mozilla’s new release of Firefox 3 a worthy upgrade, giving it a review of 8 out of 10! It’ll take a week to [...]

I just can’t get enough of the code swarm visualization project. Michael Ogawa used Processing to create an “organic visualization” of well known open source projects like Python and PostgreSQL. It shows commits, by developer over time. Clouds of influence drift in and out of the core ring, branches tug one another back and forth [...]

Big downloads, mean big crashes. Here are today’s top stories:
After attempting to break a world record for most Web downloads, Mozilla’s newest version of Firefox 3.0 crashes its servers
Mozilla is not the only one experiencing technical difficulties, the application directory and all third party applications for Google’s App Engine are offline with developers unable [...]

(Obligatory Pink Floyd reference included)

This afternoon we get another data point showing that despite the exciting promise of cloud computing, the realities of managing large scale infrastructure insist on rearing their ugly heads. TechCrunch is reporting that Google Apps had an outage today which caused the service to be completely down.
There’s two serious problems with [...]