Former co-worker and friend, Scott Hanselman,  just posted his Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me. Funny and interesting at the same time. So to kick-off my new blog design and to celebrate it’s long, long hiatus, here’s my Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me. It drives me insane when people don’t get to the point. I love languages...

It’s coming up on 3 years now of writing, deploying and managing various types of applications in the cloud now. Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years. Cloud Vendor Selection Picking the best cloud vendor is like looking for unicorns. It’s not gonna happen. I have yet to find a vendor that has everything I need. That’s why I have...

Today Dell jumped the shark and announced a new specialized line of cloud computing hardware. Dell – seriously!? What makes this line of hardware any different from the servers your selling by the thousands to all the cloud vendors out there now? From their press release they state: New integrated cloud infrastructure solutions comprised of pre-tested,...

It’s been no secret that Verizon has been selling off it’s old-school copper customers fast and furious lately. But I somehow fail to catch the news that Verizon is also selling off it’s FiOS division, to which I happen to be a customer of. If your not familiar with FiOS, it’s a bundled service (cable, internet and television) offering from...

Today Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released Ubuntu 9.04. What makes this release stand out from previous Ubuntu releases is the new Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services is the first commercially-supported Linux distribution that enables businesses to build private cloud environments inside their firewalls. Companies will now be...