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Author and founder of Valtira and enStratus.
Areas of Expertise:
- java
- mysql
- amazon ec2
- content management
- marketing
- internationalization
- cloud computing
- amazon web services
- consulting
- speaking
- training
- writing
George Reese is the founder of two Minneapolis-based companies, enStratus Networks LLC (maker of high-end cloud infrastructure management tools) and Valtira LLC (maker of the Valtira Online Marketing Platform). Over the past 15 years, George has authored a number of technology books, including MySQL Pocket Reference, Database Programming with JDBC and Java, Java Database Best Practices, and Cloud Application Architectures.
Throughout the Internet era, George has spent his career building enterprise tools for developers and delivering solutions to the marketing domain. He was an influential force in the evolution of online gaming through the creation of a number of Open Source MUD libraries and he created the first JDBC driver in 1996—the Open Source mSQL-JDBC. Most recently, George has been involved in the development of systems to support the deployment of transactional web applications in the cloud.
George holds a BA in Philosophy from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. He currently lives in Minnesota with his wife Monique and his daughters Kyra and Lindsey.
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Recent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
- The Hole in VMware's Whole Cloud Strategy, June 30 2012
- Object/NoSQL Mapping for Riak with Dasein Persist, May 29 2012
- API Versioning, October 12 2011
- The EC2 API as a Defacto Standard, August 09 2011
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs, June 04 2011
- The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment, April 23 2011
- The Whole Cloud, Part II: Suitability for the Cloud, April 16 2011
- The Whole Cloud, April 15 2011
- A Proposal for Cloud State Notifications, April 02 2011
- Cloud Culture: How Cloud Attitudes Differ in Europe and North America, December 31 2010
- Cloud 2011: The Year of the Network, December 22 2010
- The Delusion of Private Cloud Security, August 07 2010
- The Cloud Computing Mind Map, July 01 2010
- Failure Is a Feature of Reality, May 14 2010
- Understanding the Cloud Landscape, April 29 2010
- The Five Levels of Cloud Computing, March 24 2010
- The Sacred Barrier, February 25 2010
- How Much Is the Fear of Cloud Security Worth?, February 21 2010
- Towards Event-Driven Cloud APIs, February 16 2010
- Dasein Cloud and the vCloud API, January 20 2010
- Cloud Services for Every SMB, January 13 2010
- Cloud Forensics using EBS Boot Volumes, January 03 2010
- Principles for Standardized REST Authentication, December 26 2009
- Your Cloud Needs a Sys Admin, October 15 2009
- Four Tips for Avoiding VM Sprawl in the Public Cloud, October 03 2009
- The Dasein Cloud API, August 15 2009
- Freemium Services and the Economics of Social Networking, July 05 2009
- The First Step into the Cloud: Which Kinds of Applications Make the Most Sense?, June 24 2009
- A Quick Look at Amazon CloudWatch, Load Balancing, and Auto-Scaling, June 01 2009
- The Five Laws of Implementing a Login Solution, May 20 2009
- Google's Failings Say Little about Cloud Computing, May 16 2009
- Transparency: The Key to Cloud Security, April 19 2009
- Using the Cloud for Disaster Recovery, April 12 2009
- The Varieties of Openness Worth Wanting in the Cloud, March 27 2009
- The Weakness of Commodity Server to Cloud Server Cost Comparisons, March 19 2009
- PCI in the Cloud, February 26 2009
- The Twitter Value Paradox, January 18 2009
- Cloud Tips: Sending Email from an EC2 Instance, January 16 2009
- Why the AWS Console is Good for Cloud Tool Vendors, January 09 2009
- Microsoft's Cloud Tax, December 24 2008
- How I Ended Up in the Cloud, December 13 2008
- Three Criteria for Being a Cloud Service, December 08 2008
- On Why I Don't Like Auto-Scaling in the Cloud, December 06 2008
- Key Security Issues for the Amazon Cloud, November 30 2008
- Twenty Rules for Amazon Cloud Security, November 27 2008
- Increasing Availability in the Amazon Cloud, November 10 2008
- The Economics of Cloud Computing, October 24 2008
- Considerations in Building Web Applications for the Amazon Cloud, October 18 2008
Recent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Webcast: Cloud Independence with Dasein Cloud
July 30, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Dasein Cloud is an Open Source Java API that enables write-once, run against any cloud programming. With Dasein Cloud, you can run the same application across any number of supported clouds without ...
Webcast: Getting Started with Amazon Web Services
April 08, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Amazon has rapidly established itself as the major player in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) domain of cloud computing. Author of Cloud Application Architectures and enStratus founder and CTO ...
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