Cloud Computing Players
Interesting article with most of the Cloud Computing palyers : Cloud Vendors A to Z Revised | IT Management and Cloud Blog
What happened at VMware?
Here are some speculations about VMware’s CEO departure : VMware Bombshell: The Day After - Data Center Knowledge
Ingrid Betancourt Libérée - Now Free
Cela fait assez longtemps que je lis régulièrement au sujet de l’histoire d’Ingrid Betancourt, je ne me souviens plus trop pourquoi, mais j’avais regardé des reportages sur sa lutte contre la corruption et d’autres reportages lorsqu’elle débutait la campagne présidentielle en Columbie en 2001. Elle semblait sincère et donner un bel espoir a un pays comme la Colombie ou la corruption est très présente. Je me suis intéressé à son histoire depuis ce temps et souhaite sa libération depuis 2002, date a laquelle elle a été kidnappée.
Voilà, elle a maintenant été libérée et l’histoire de sa libération est digne d’un scénario d’Hollywood dans lequel l’infiltration de la guerilla a permis de passer de faux ordres pour regrouper les otages a un endroit précis ou l’armée Colombienne était prête à passer à l’action. Je ne serais pas surpris de voir le film bientôt sur nos écrans. Une très belle réussite semble-t-il. Plus d’informations sur Cyberpresse : Ingrid Betancourt libérée.
More details in english about Ingrid’s story on Wikipedia.
ICANN & IANA Hacker Takeover
Turkish hackers recently redirected requests to ICANN’s and IANA’s web sites to a warning page of their own. Scary when you think that those organizations control Internet domains. More at Hackers Hijack Sites of Internet Organizations.
Rogers dévoile ses Forfaits Voix et données pour iPhone 3G
Beaucoup mieux que le Edge, mais comme le diront sûrement plusieurs dans les prochains jours “on se fait encore fourrer” avec les forfaits de données de Rogers pour le iPhone 3GB. Grande déception, il n’y a pas de forfait illimité : Rogers.com - Forfaits Voix et données pour iPhone 3G
Eric Chouinard - LinkedIn
Bon, Eric est sur Linkedin !
Ceux qui le cherchaient vont être content.
Eric Chouinard - LinkedIn
YouTube - Eric EO Montreal Gala
Eric, my partner, just sent me this video : YouTube - Eric EO Montreal Gala (it’s in french) telling me he (or we) won a price at the EO Montreal Gala …. something like Best Growth - Over 5M$. Unfortunately, he forgot to say his favorite line “THINK BIG”. We got our share of awards lately, after being featured in the Profit 100, we also saw iWeb listed in the Palmarès de la croissance en 2008 de l’Actualité and in the TSX Top 50 (Diversified Industries Category), don’t ask me why “Diversified Industries” ! And now this EO award.
Those award don’t really mean a lot to me, what I see at iWeb when I enter the office each day is probably worth a thousand times more, but it’s always nice to see some kind of recognition from the outside world. Inside, we all know we are working hard for the success of iWeb and even if we do not talk about it often, we are caught up by our daily tasks, I think the team knows they are part of what iWeb is today and that me and Eric are proud of what they accomplished and what we see is coming next month or next year. Those awards are nice, they are telling us that we are not dreaming, that we probably really are on the right track and doing most of the things right. That those days and nights we almost fall asleep at the office are not useless. At least, that’s what those awards mean to me.
Summer + Datacenter = Potential Problems
I was reading this article from Datacenter knowledge : Is Your Data Center Ready for the Summer? - Data Center Knowledge and it made me think we had our first taste of the summer some days ago here in Montreal. Heat inside a datacenter is critical and as you can imagine it is harder to cool a datacenter in summer when it’s 30 degrees (celcius) outside. At iWeb our datacenters are growing and filling up so fast that thinking about how our datacenters reacted to summer temperatures last year has nothing to do with how they will react this year. Well, so far so good, some air conditioning units reported errors and we already planned some adjustments but no real problem, our infrastructure team did a good job!
Download Firefox 3.0, it’s Download Day.
Even though I’m a Safari user, I’ll probably try Firefox 3. Get it today and be part of a new world record the Mozilla team wants to beat : Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
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