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Dr Mike Norman, IT Strategist and Entrepreneur - Open Source; Server Scalability and Performance; Virtual/Remote Desktop. 10 years as a CEO at Scapa Technologies ensuring the scalability and perfromance of the largest Citrix, TS and VDI implementations on the planet. 5 years on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Open Source Foundation. Set up and led the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Project. 5 years as an analyst/consultant - Large-scale Database, Data Warehouse. Currently implementing hosted systems for virtualised application delivery, based on open source stacks.

Technically, the Amazon Cloud didn’t actually fail

April 29, 2011

By Mike Norman

Amazon's Service Level Agreement (SLA) is so narrowly-drawn that it could easily be argued that the recent Elastic Block Store (EBS) outage wasn't a failure of Amazon Web Services at all. Anyone using EBS in a production environment was, arguably, reaping the fruits of their own folly. Of course they don't tell you when you…

DOJ blocks EMC/VMware from acquiring Virtualization Patents from Novell

April 22, 2011

By Mike Norman

EMC, the majority owner of VMware, has agreed with the Department of Justice not to acquire 33 Virtualization Patents from Novell as part of a side-transaction in the acquisition of Novell by Attachmate. The Statement from the Department of Justice sheds significant light on the deal that had been struck between Novell and a newly-created…

OpenCompute – Facebook drives Data Center and Cloud evolution

April 14, 2011

By Mike Norman

Facebook (which had previously bought commodity servers and rented data center space) has opened up a whole new area of Open Source technology by publishing the full specification of both its new custom server and its new data center as "Open Source" at OpenCompute.org. Overall, Facebook claims that its new data centers are 38 per…

Wizard to Unlock SuSE from Microsoft patent Dungeon

April 4, 2011

By Mike Norman

The Novell Sale is being positioned to go ahead before the resolution of the Patent issue with the Department of Justice.

Open Source Year in Review

December 27, 2010

By Mike Norman

Open Source continues to be an important part of the mix in Virtualization and Cloud. Indeed, this year has seen major developments in established players at the Operating System and Hypervisor level, as well as a major new cloud entry at the IaaS cloud layer.

WikiLeaks – War in the Clouds

December 20, 2010

By Mike Norman and Edward Haletky

WikiLeaks is the most serious social and political event of the emerging Cloud. It has remained alive through a "do-it-yourself" approach as the commercial Cloud was denied to it. When the dust settles, the Cloud may well emerge different, with the rights/obligations of Cloud Services providers clarified.