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Introduce yourself....

Submitted by CloudHosting on Sun, 14/06/2009 - 14:28.

New to the forum? Take a moment to introduce yourself to everyone...

I'll kick off:

I'm Paul, I graduated from University a few years ago and worked for a Financial Services company for a few years before leaving to become a partner in a web hosting company based in the UK. I have since spent the large part of my time researching the cloud from a business perspective rather (not technical!) and built this site as an information source for others who are also involved in the development of the cloud in one way or another.

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Submitted by simonblackler on Wed, 17/06/2009 - 11:15.

Hello everyone!
I'm Simon, I had the unfortunate pleasure of going to university with Paul and then some time later bought him on board to help run a web hosting company I set up pre-uni.

At university I was most interested in large scale computer systems; grid computing, edge computing etc, especially with a view to the best ways to interconnect i.e network them. Akamai in particular fascinates me.

Cloud computing is an old concept but it's started to see a resurgence lately and being easily excitable I wanted to read up on the subject; to find that most information was scattered and/or just marketing hype/bumpf.

Paul and I decided to set up this resource to provide a place where various industry experts could contribute their perspectives on "the cloud" and interested parties would have 1 place to find out what they needed, and if they couldn't ask the community.

Where Paul's research is from a business perspective mine is of a more technical angle; I'm looking to produce articles that will help people overcome problems inherent in building a cloud.

I run an online business

Submitted by samclodu on Thu, 18/06/2009 - 09:08.

I run an online business from home and have 20 + years experience in the web hosting arena, mainly with the development of load balancing software and hypervisors. I am now using mosso's reseller package for my hosting - made the switch to the cloud this week and so far so good.

Good job on the site guys, I

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Submitted by terrence on Fri, 19/06/2009 - 15:20.

Good job on the site guys, I haven't been able to find a decent cloud hosting forum site until I stumbled across this by accident..

I'm Terrence, have a 10 year background in DNS and online data storage working in R&D for a large IT firm and have recently left to become a contractor for cloud consultancy and implementation services.