Patting ourselves on the back just a little

A few days ago, Jeremy Geelan of Cloud Computing Journal published his list of the Top 100 Bloggers on Cloud Computing.  We are very pleased and proud to tell you that our own Steve Riley and his frequent contributions to this blog were recognized on Jeremy's list.

Jeremy says that he's not ranking the blogs or the bloggers, at least not yet, so we can safely say that Steve is currently tied for first place (with everyone else)!

The bad news, at least for Steve, is that now we're going to ask him to blog more often.  But that's good news for those of us who enjoy his blog columns, like this one and this one.

So again, congratulations, Steve!

In case you don't know Steve, here is how he introduces himself on our About Blog Authors page:

I’m a Technical Leader in the Strategic Technology Group, part of the Office of the CTO at Riverbed Technology; my focus here will be all things cloud. Before joining Riverbed I worked at Amazon Web Services and at Microsoft where I specialized in information security, compliance, privacy, and policy. During much of that time I traveled the world to speak at numerous cloud computing, telecommunications, information security, and Microsoft technical conferences. I co-authored a book about Windows network security, contributed a chapter to a book on auditing cloud computing, published numerous articles, and conducted technical reviews of several data networking and communications books.

When not lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, I play the French horn and alto horn in three symphonic and brass bands. If you engage me in conversation we’ll likely end up discussing the intersection of technology and culture. Contact me anytime at steve.riley@riverbed.com or on Skype as stvrly.

And here you can see Steve in action in a recent video recorded at Interop 2011 in Las Vegas.

 

OK, enough self-congratulations!  Back to work!