My notes on technology in my personal and professional life

Memo to self – must-post-more-often.. Saw this provocative Infoweek piece on slashdot about lack of Data portability in the cloud.It reminded me to note here the efforts of the Data Liberation Front,a team of Google engineers committed to making data easy to export from Google. Their stated goal is to keep the company honest by [...]

Picked up this piece from Infoweek about a new feature for sharing Docs with Google groups. While this might be attractive to me if I was starting to set up Yu  Ying’s googlesphere from scratch, it will be a cumbersome implementation now. I also came across this note about sharing / security concerns with Google [...]

The TWPC IT management team met a few weeks back with Amazon’s Chief Evangelist for Web Services, Jeff Barr. He sketched out their strategy for growing the Amazon cloud business at a very high level. they see themselves as sticking as a pure infrastructure provider for some time, and will leave the delivery of actual [...]

This is a downer – S3 was down for a few hours last Friday. I want to be a true believer, but this is scary.

Got a note in my email about an interesting article in CIO about Workday. This is an HRMS SaaS vendor that was started by Peoplesoft founders Dave Duffield and former vice chairman Aneel Bhusri. I think this is another example of inevitable march of all business computing into the cloud. My work team’s primary raison [...]