Stunning how things go fast. As the VMware frenzy about vCloud Express is still hot (vCloud being substantially  a long due API interface to perform capacity management), somewhat less of public domain happens: RightScale (my darling company) is supporting vCloud Express. It means we, common humans, could consolidate all types of Clouds we might want: [...]

Aspera is a company specialised in providing high speed, low-latency software solutions for data transfer. Their flagship product is FASP, a lightweight,resilient protocol implemented at Application Level that is a replacement technology for TCP-based transfers (the likes of FTP, HTTP). The nice thing is that it actually works! FASP is used mainly in the video [...]

Great news. Kurt Claeys, the Cloud Computing expert and evangelizer at Ordina Belgium, founded AZUG: Azure User Group. Needless to say: their focus will be the Microsoft Azure platform and .NET Services. First public meeting is planned for September 2009, I will be there to see if I can help someways, count on it. Interested? [...]

Some of the pictures I took at CCamp in Paris 11th June 2009. I expected it to be good and, indeed, it was. Deave Nielsen is quite a character when he moderates the Camps!