Can AWS put out the private cloud?

TL;DR: No. Today I watched a recording of Andy Jassy at the AWS summit in San Francisco from last month.  (Yes, I have a backlog of Youtube videos I’m trying to get through and John Oliver takes precedence to AWS) The statistics he laid out were incredible: 102% YoY revenue growth for the S3 service…

Cloud Computing: How Do I Get There?

This post comes from a talk that I’ll be presenting on at the Pacific Northwest Digital Government Summit Conference on October 2nd, 2013. History shows us that those that embrace technology and change survive while those that resist and stick with “business as usual” get left behind.  If we have the technology and we don’t use it…

MediaWiki Installation on RedHat 5.5

In modern data center things like IPs, user accounts, passwords, and such that you used to keep in Excel spreadsheets should be rolled into the management tools.  That way, you always have the most current information.  Static word, excel and the like are old news.  Today you can see those things start to get rolled…