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Okay, so this is wishful thinking on my part, Amazon taking the initiative and renaming their very powerful SimpleDB product Amazon Registry. Let me present my case for why they should.

I was honored to be part of the very popular Cloud Computing Podcast by David Linthicum. It has just gone live for your audible enjoyment!

With ElasticServer you can now build your own custom server image with OpenBD installed, choosing your own J2EE and database server. Deploy straight to Amazon EC2. Can't get easier.

What makes a true cloud offering? What must a company offer before it can make the cloud claim? I examine the 3 criteria that for me defines a true cloud offering.

Twilio a new startup from Amazon's ex Product Manager Jeff Lawson will soon be coming out of private beta to offer cloud like telephony services.

Cloud providers, like their name sakes, do blow away leaving clear blue skies. Cloud providers aren't selling miracle cures - yet people are buying as if they were. Who is at fault when things do go wrong?

Yesterday Microsoft finally released their vision for their offering into the cloud space. They have published a whitepaper on Azure. Here is a list of the highlights that Azure has to offer.

Ever wondered where our clouds actually physically reside? In a forever virtualised world its easy to forget sometimes that you actually do end up running on bare-metal at some point. The BBC has an interesting article on one such data center.

For our upcoming cloud bootcamp in San Jose, we have a special guest appearance from the co-founder of one of the most popular cloud management consoles available today; Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale.

Amazon have officially got rid of their beta status and are now ready to be used properly! Amazon have hinted at what is coming up in the future, and what we are cloud wanderers are to expect from them and others in the space.

GoGrid is an alternative cloud platform to the likes of Amazon. They too have an API allowing you to build your own UI. If you want a complete single no-fuss Java class to control GoGrid, then look no further.

Kirk Pepperdine has started to move his benchmarking knowledge to the world of clouds. We are going to start seeing some real reports as one of the worlds leading Java performance tuning experts turns his attention to the world of clouds.

I will be presenting at Amazon's upcoming London road show on how we are using their web services technology. If you are in London the 4th November then stop by.

Amazon have recently reduced the price of their S3 service. But they are not the only player in the field. We've introduced a simple online storage calculator to let you see how they compare.

Stephen Fry recently published an article on cloud computing. Like many others he got it completely wrong and was describing nothing more than what the Internet is. Cloud computing is not the second coming.

Ever wondered what all the cloud fuss was about? Well I will be hosting a full day of bootcamp in November at San Jose. Discover the world of clouds and how you can utilise the likes of Amazon, GoGrid, Flexiscale et al to aid your deployment.

Amazon Web Services have announced Windows support.

In October I have an upcoming webinar from the Grid Computing Now! organization on what cloud computing really means for you.

With their stock price falling VMWare needs to do something different to start rebuilding their company. The solution, however, is staring them in the face. VMWare just needs to look at the industry it help shape for the solution.

With Amazon S3 suffering an 8 hour outage, it is vitally important you take responsibility for your own cloud infastructure. Trust no one and rely on your own skills instead of blaming the provider.