The drag-and-drop, point-and-click metaverse

Christofer Hoff sounds like such a cool guy. His interests include:

"Anything with wheels and an engine that puts me in harms way - supercharged small blocks, motorcycles and 125cc shifter karts, especially. Kentucky Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey and fine sipping rums. Cigars -- usually the kind that curl your toes and puts hair on your palms. Paintball, small caliber firearms, power tools, jumbalaya and BBQ'ing anything that at one time had a face and was not in the same genus/species fork as I am/was."

He's also the founder of three start-ups and he is currently Crossbeam Systems' Chief Security Strategist.

Barry from 3Tera forwarded this blog post, in which Christofer describes a "drag-and-drop, point-and-click Metaverse of virtualized application and data combined with on-demand infrastructure":

1. You provision virtual switches, load balancers, firewalls, servers, etc for your applications using AppLogic's visual canvas

2. You use Yahoo! Pipes to define whether/how various applications can access/consume/manipulate each other's data sources

Back in January I was very excited to hear about SoftLayer's Customer Exchange, a private meet-me-room where dedicated server owners can exchange data at gigabit speeds without incurring bandwidth charges. Now I'm envisioning a virtualized customer exchange on which application owners can create either inter- or intra-company mashups on the fly. How awesome would that be?!

Comments

[Christofer Hoff]

Isabel, thanks for the kind words, but nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet, and I assure you, I'm not that cool ;)

3Tera's stuff is very cool. I first saw what Vlad and the boys showed me in a demo over a year ago and it's truly exciting technology.

I can't wait until our imaginations can catch up with some of the stuff that is actually reality today!

I'm so glad I found your blog, it's great reading.

/Hoff

[Isabel Wang]

I will ask Alan Shimel; met him back during the TriStarWeb days. I bet he'll say you're way cool :) My blog is embarrassingly short on content compared with yours. I love the Take5s!