Graeme Thickins on Tech

Reflections & analysis about innovation, technology, startups, investing, healthcare, and more .... with a focus on Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes. Blogging continuously since 2005.

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Gluecon 2010: A Chat With OxygenCloud


OxygenCloud-logo OxygenCloud wants to solve corporate end-users' file management problems with cloud storage. To date, the latter has been used mostly by developers creating applications, not by corporate IT to address end-user file management. Thus, the company says cloud storage lacks easy end-user access, security, and the IT admin tools needed for corporate deployment.

But OxygenCloud is out to change that, by way of a company file network that brings all storage clouds the company uses — public and private — to the desktop of the corporate end-user. 
OxygenCloud-diagram From an intuitive desktop interface, users can access any file, in any cloud, as if it were in local storage.  These files can be shared with anyone, including external users, within an encrypted and secure environment. 

A spinout of LeapFile, OxygenCloud describes itself as a "cloud storage broker."  Its customers can store and secure their files using any cloud provider.  Its service combines these multiple public and private
OxygenCloud-Peter+Alex clouds into a single synthetic cloud, allowing users to balance their cost and performance requirements. Here's my interview with Peter Chang, CEO, shown at left in the photo, with Alex Teu, director of business development.

Download or listen to Graeme's interview with OxygenCloud (MP3)"


Gluecon 2010: A Chat With Objectivity About ‘InfiniteGraph’

InfiniteGraph-logo On the second day of the Glue conference, somehow I was Johnny-on-the-spot for breakfast, despite the activities of the night before. (No, I did not participate in the hackathon — they didn't want no stinking bloggers.)  Schmoozing over coffee and rolls around the vendor tables, I ran into my buddy Dave Fauth, who was chatting with Warren Davidson, director of biz dev at Objectivity, about their new InfiniteGraph database. The company describes it as "the distributed graph database for the cloud and beyond." I decided to pull out my handy-dandy recorder (Olympus LS-10) and do a quick interview.
InfiniteGraph-diagram

So, let's say you want to build the next big social networking platform, or have a project involving scientific research, intelligence, or a personalized Internet service platform. Then, bucko, you'll want to take a look at this "distributed, scalable, enterprise-ready, high-performance graph database solution" that enables (…deep breath…) "leading-edge innovation and real-time discovery of multi-dimensional relationships and answers from vast volumes of distributed and complex data."  Seriously, this is cool stuff. The company just announced, on day one of Glue, the availability of InfiniteGraph in beta….

Download or listen to Graeme's interview with Objectivity about InfiniteGraph (MP3)"


My Live-Blogging of CloudCamp and Glue in Denver

GlueConf-logo This year’s Glue Conference is the second annual, and I’m glad to be back. The dates are May 26-27, and it’s at a new venue this year: the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, CO. Nice views of the mountains, and a golf course, too (like I care).  This year, the night before has a new wrinkle: we’re having a barcamp (unconference) starting at 4:00 pm today, May 25:  CloudCamp @Gluecon, also known as #cloudcampdenver.

Here’s my live-blog page, which uses a service called ScribbleLive.  I began posting to it earlier today, doing checks-ins while in route, etc, and I also have my Twitter posts appearing there — plus I had all tweets containing “gluecon” appearing there for a while, too.  GlueCon2010-Live I’ll begin posting again once CloudCamp starts up, and will continue through tomorrow and Thursday, till the Glue conference ends about 5:00 pm that day.  Comments are turned on in the ScribbleLive blog (moderated), so speak your piece if you like.

Note: This live-blog is also appearing concurrently on a new developer community site from Alcatel-Lucent, called Open API Service.  So, you can view all the action on this blog page there as well.

My Live-Blogging of Glue Conference 2010

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What the problem of “enterprise application integration” was in the late ’90s is now the cambrian explosion of web-based applications that will demand similar levels of integration. How to “glue” all of these apps, data, people, workflows, and networks together?

The Glue conference is devoted solely to this new problem-set facing architects, developers, and integrators. It is exploring the new technologies forming around web applications in a post-cloud world.

This live blog also includes my coverage of CloudCamp @Gluecon, May 25, 2010 (just prior to Glue), otherwise known as #cloudcampdenver.

My Live-Blogging of the MIMA Event Featuring Virgin America

Here's the page where my live-blog posts appeared, in real time last evening, May 19, 2010. Porter Gale, VP of Marketing at Virgin America, gave a great talk.BuildingBrand35kft-LiveBlog-title

To do live-blogging at events, I use a great tool designed
just for this purpose called "ScribbleLive." I've done so at several events over the past year or two, such as DEMO Conferences, Blogwell/Minneapolis, MIMA Summit, and others. (And I'll be live-blogging at the Glue Conference next week in Denver.)  It lets me comment as things happen.

VirginAmerica-logo My on-site coverage of this MIMA event began soon after I arrived at the Solera restaurant and nightclub, on a gorgeous evening in downtown Minneapolis. The entire live-blog is now archived at the page link above, in chronological order.

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