Ahead of Ubuntu’s release later this week my latest podcast conversation is with Simon Wardley of the Linux distribution’s commercial sponsor, Canonical.

We discuss Ubuntu Server’s much-anticipated inclusion of the EUCALYPTUS-powered ‘Enterprise Cloud,’ consider the increasingly strong position of Amazon’s EC2 API as a de facto standard in the Cloud, and look at some of the steps still required to persuade Enterprise customers to wholeheartedly embrace Cloud Computing.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon EC2
• Amazon S3
• Amazon Web Services
• Canonical
• CohesiveFT
• Does IT Matter? and my podcast with Nick Carr
• EUCALYPTUS, and my podcast with Rich Wolski
• Google App Engine
• IETF
• Microsoft Azure, and my podcast with Amitabh Srivastava
• Open Cloud Manifesto, and my podcast with Reuven Cohen
• OSCon
• Oracle announces intention to buy Sun Microsystems
• Red Queen Hypothesis
• RightScale, and my podcast with Michael Crandell
• Ubuntu
• Zimki on The Register

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 21 April, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Koven Smith of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. We talk about Koven’s work at the Met, and explore the ways in which the museum is applying Semantic Web techniques to the interpretation of its rich datasets.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• British Museum
• CIDOC CRM
• CIMI
• Getty Research Institute and their thesauri on Art & Architecture, Artist Names and Geography
• Google discussion groups for the MCN Semantic Museum Special Interest Group and ‘semuse’
• Indianapolis Museum of Art
• ICOM
• Library of Congress
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum Computer Network (MCN)
• Marco Neumann
• New York Semantic Web Meetup
• Open Calais
• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Semantic MediaWiki
• Koven Smith, and his MCN presentation
• Powerset
• Tate

This conversation was recorded on Monday 26 January, 2009.

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