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Willing to speak at the CloudCamp Milan #2?

April 18, 2010
By Gabriele Bozzi
Willing to speak at the CloudCamp Milan #2?

.. Then drop me a line. We are filling the slots for the sponsor pitches and we are looking for spontaneous contributions on your own endeavor in Cloud Computing. Since the public at the Cloud Camp is a wonderful mixed bag, you can bring a super technical essay as well as a speech about the...
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Azure with PHP: the Belgian event

February 10, 2010
By Gabriele Bozzi
Azure with PHP: the Belgian event

Michelangelo Van Dam, co-founder of PHPBenelux is organizing, together with Microsoft Belgium, a PHP-on-Azure event. I let himself introduce the topic: - Microsoft and PHPBenelux are proud to announce a PHP on Azure event with no one less then Josh Holmes presenting “Leveraging Azure with non-Microsoft Technologies”. Josh will talk about the possibilities of Azure for PHP...
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Cool #infographics and CVs

January 6, 2010
By Gabriele Bozzi
Cool #infographics and CVs

I am “refactoring” my CV. This time I will try to avoid lengthy lists of skills, acronyms, technologies… Yaawn!! ZZZzzzZZ!!! It’s about time to present myself fit for this millennium’s 2nd decade, so, this is an idea I had on how to present my skills and experience overview: I am working on the assignment timeline, I am...
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Leading by example in Cloud Computing (Dilbert)

November 18, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Leading by example in Cloud Computing (Dilbert)

Great! What the IT world might have been without Dilbert (and Userfriendly too…)
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@botchagalupe, @krisbuytaert, me and the Kwak!!

November 15, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
@botchagalupe, @krisbuytaert, me and the Kwak!!

I am a lucky chap. I received this e-mail on Friday saying that “@botchagalupe is in town, feel like a beer together?”. Botchagalupe aka John Willis is one of the best known Cloud evangelists and a legend in System Management; he is actually “involved” with Canonical and spreading the word on agility and life-cycle management on...
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Why I think Amazon RDS is not hitting MS Azure under the belt

October 30, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi

While emotional thinking may feel right, it’s rarely the  way to see clarity. Chill down a bit and be rational: things will start look different, decisions will have better outcome. On October 26th I read the announce Amazon releases RDS, their managed MySQL service and the first thought was for the guys in Redmond and their...
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DNS + HTTP, intriguing

September 21, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi

Hooking the lizard brain up to the cerebral cortex This is the title Dave Winer (the talkative inventor of RSS) has given to one of his most recent posts, where, thanks to the imaginative idea of one of his friends who wants to be kept anonymous, he manages to de-link DNS from address resolution. No, it...
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CloudCamp Italy: speakers!!

September 4, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
CloudCamp Italy: speakers!!

It takes some time.. …To put together a list of interesting interventions for the Lightning Talks of the CloudCamp. The effort Francesco Sacco of EntER and I have done, is  something I could define “very good”. We tried to cover multiple aspects of Cloud Computing, bring together different perspectives and induce the public to debate. Here are...
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B-Virtual, an IDA approach to storage

September 3, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
B-Virtual, an IDA approach to storage

I have seen this at CloudStorm in Bruxelles. B-Virtual is a Belgian company living symbiotically with cloud solution provider  A-Server and developing an IDA-based (Information Dispersal Algorithm) file system. A traditional disk subsystem obtains resiliency against data-loss by duplicating information (RAID 1 for example) or by adding check-sum stripes (for example: RAID 5). In typical...
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Amazing response from the CloudCamp Italy attendance

September 2, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Amazing response from the CloudCamp Italy attendance

Good jolly!! two days in the public with the subscriptions of the CloudCamp Italy and we have more than 80 people confirming their attendance. And the coverage is growing up. This website, for example, saw traffic go as high as twice the baseline. I am pleasantly surprised and I love the fact that Italy is so...
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