Wayne Horkan's weblog: eclectic

Date:Thursday Apr 30, 2009

Sun Microsystems, Dynamic Infrastructure and the Register • Sun's Dynamic Infrastructure is a Suite of Services, enabled by technology, and is just one of the ways that we can help you move toward a virtualized datacenter platform that fully exploits our expertise in IT architecture and process automation, enabling agility through the extremely flexible,. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

Posted by: Wayne Horkan
Date / Time: / 15:34 GMT

Category: Tech

Simon Wardley responds to my "Cloud Relationship Model" article • Simon Wardley , Software Services Manager at Canonical UK and noted Cloud Computing expert and public speaker, responds to my article " Cloud Relationship Model ", with specific mention of my paraphrasing of a talk I saw him give; and thereby explains the history behind the "*aaS" double entendre .. • ..... View Comments

Posted by: Wayne Horkan
Date / Time: / 00:19 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Tuesday Apr 28, 2009

Elephant in the room • Or is that "Elephant on the table" I'm never quite sure which of the two you should use, but whichever is the case you'll be unsurprised to know that it turns out for regulatory and legislative reasons we as individuals should demonstrate caution and discretion about blogging about 'you know what'. • ..... View Comments

Posted by: Wayne Horkan
Date / Time: / 10:55 GMT

Category: Work

Is syndication and responses a measure of blogging success? • Given that today marks the 5th year of http://blogs.sun.com (or just "bsc" to us Sun bloggers), and that it was this month two years ago that I published my first blog article (entitled " And finally ", an opinion piece on Gartner's top ten predictions from 2007), I thought it would be nice to. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 00:38 GMT

Category: Blog

Date:Monday Apr 27, 2009

The early history of packet switching in the UK • Read an excellent article the other week in the IEEE's Communications Magazine on the UK's contribution to early packet switching and what would evolve into Ethernet and the Internet. • ..... View Comments

Posted by: Wayne Horkan
Date / Time: / 12:59 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Monday Apr 20, 2009

Oracle Corporation set to aquire Sun Microsystems • The Wall Street Journal has just broken the news that Sun is to be aquired by Oracle over at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124022726514434703.html This time it's much more than a rumor or conjecture as both Sun and Oracle are announcing the news as well... • ..... View Comments