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Proving Identity and Trust in a Distributed World – Ebay, Publons and the Bitcoin Protocol

September 6, 2013

Business

Andrew Preston, Bitcoin, Electronic money, Isaac Newton, Kim Dotcom, Preston, Vikram Kumar, Wellington

Recently I spoke at the Digital Identity and Security conference held in Wellington. At the event the CEO of Mega, the (in)famous file sharing site created by Kim Dotcom, Vikram Kumar, spoke of the need for privacy in the…

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GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

April 16, 2013

Business

Big data, Chief technology officer, cloud computing, greenbutton, OpenStack, Portland Oregon, vCloud, Wellington

I’ve written before about GreenButton, the awesome company (awesome for reasons other than the fact that they hail from my home town of Wellington, new Zealand, although that helps immensely) vendor of cross-vendor high performance compute cloud platform. I…

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Clown Computing–Entertaining and Attention Grabbing but a Flawed Thesis

February 18, 2013

Business

Archive Team, christchurch, cloud computing, Cloud storage, GeoCities, Internet Archive, webstock, Wellington

Recently I attended Webstock, a conference in Wellington, New Zealand that is well known for bringing together technology, design and general brain stimulation. It was a great event, with some awesome speakers but one presentation, by Jason Scott, part…

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Citrix Acquires Beetil – Great Result for the Wellington Heroes!

September 10, 2012

Business

Assistly, beetil, Calif, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, Dan Lee, Wellington, zendesk

The web-based helpdesk space is pretty busy – but while big names like Zendesk and Assistly (now help.com desk.com) get most of the attention, a little battler from Wellington, New Zealand has been quietly building out its product. That…

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Head of Microsoft Azure Calls Out Greenbutton. The Perfect Cloud Case Study?

April 26, 2011

Business

cloud computing, greenbutton, Microsoft Azure, Wellington

A month or two ago I ran a CloudCamp in Wellington which was preceded by a presentation by a local company there, Greenbutton. The Greenbutton offering is , or at least should be, something of a poster child for…

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Proving Identity and Trust in a Distributed World – Ebay, Publons and the Bitcoin Protocol

GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

Clown Computing–Entertaining and Attention Grabbing but a Flawed Thesis

Citrix Acquires Beetil – Great Result for the Wellington Heroes!

Head of Microsoft Azure Calls Out Greenbutton. The Perfect Cloud Case Study?