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- Leveraging cloud computing for new business enablement
- In yesterday’s Forbes.com HP VP and CTO Russ Daniels wrote a short commentary on how cloud computing can help reignite the global economy and his focus is what makes the difference. Where Russ differs from many others on cloud computing in that he is talking about the vision from a...
- Tags: MagCloud, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- The Open Cloud Manifesto: Whats Up With That?
- This morning, to a lot of pre-launch buzz, the Open Cloud Manifesto OCM, spearheaded by IBM, launched officially, much to no one's surprise. The idea behind the OCM is that there exist a body consisting of many companies - and in the future, many, many companies, that would semi-formally agree...
- Tags: Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Cloudy views and more aaS
- Microsoft's entry into the so-called cloud computing space sparked off some collateral knock about posts between Tim O'Reilly and Nick Carr with Tim Bray and Stephen O'Grady joining in. At first blush each seems incredibly reasonable. When taken together they become as dense as some of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network Effect, Cloud Computing, Network, Microsoft Corp., Tim Bray, Tim, Stephen, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- News to know: Windows 7's latest build; Ubuntu; Chip density; Tech economy
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: PDC coverage: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 pre-beta build: What's inside Jason Hiner: Windows 7: Five things Microsoft must do Microsoft: Expect Vista SP2...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Chip, AMD Announces $150 Radeon HD 4830 Cringely, Microsoft Windows, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating Systems, Semiconductors, Software, Internet, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Sprint Xohm, Apple Inc., NetGear, WiMAX, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Open Source, Wireless
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Google Chrome: The enterprise playbook
- Google is launching a Web browser dubbed Chrome in a move that's garnering a lot of attention--because it conveniently fits with the Microsoft vs. Google plotline--but how much should businesses pay attention to this move? First a quick recap Techmeme, Google will launch the Chrome browser and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dennis Howlett, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- From steam punk to the future, and how to plan for it...
- I've been doing a lot of reading, most recently 'The Big Switch' by Nicholas Carr. There are plenty of reviews of this fascinating work available - in essence this is actually two books. The first focuses on the history of American public utilities and makes a very plausible case for...
- Tags: Collaboration, Information Technology, Nicholas Carr, Nicholas, Collaboration Initiative, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Cloud computing's earthly bonds
- Nick Carr, who we all know doesn't like IT anyway, picked up on a new warning about a downside of cloud computing, reported by BBC. There's no such thing as a 'cloud' -- data has to be physically stored somewhere The issue is...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Bond, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Elastra emerges to make cloud computing more attainable for enterprises
- Cloud computing as a concept has been gathering significant interest in the past months, but aside from developers, testers and startups, the ability to exploit the efficiencies and cost-benefits of cloud computing for average enterprises have remained hard to grasp. Startup Elastra unveiled its approach today to...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Cloud, Elastra, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Is IT becoming extinct?
- Update 3/26/08: Also see 5 tips to prevent IT extinction. Since the days of punch cards, IT has believed itself to be guardian of precious computing resources against attacks from non-technical barbarians known as "users." This arrogant attitude, born of once-practical necessity in...
- Tags: Information Technology, Dennis Howlett, IT Leadership, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- Is an offline version of Silverlight coming at MIX next week?
- There have been rumors for a while and today TechCrunch says they've been hearing that an offline version of Silverlight is coming to compete with Adobe AIR. Currently, despite a lot of comparisons in the tech media world, Silverlight and AIR have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Silverlight...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-03-01
- Amazon explains its S3 outage
- Amazon has issued a statement that adds a little more clarity to its Web services outage on Friday. Here's Amazon's explanation of the S3 outage, which wreaked havoc on startups and other enterprises relying on Amazon's cloud. Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Health Care, Amazon.com Inc., Authentication Service, Outage, Manufacturing, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.
- Update 2/16/08, 2:30PM EST: Nick Carr wrote a good post-mortem. So did Larry Dignan. Update 2/16/08, 11:00AM EST: Amazon reports the cause of the problem: Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing elevated levels of authenticated requests from multiple users in one of our...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., PST, Blogging, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Service Level Management, Web Services, Security, Internet, Emerging Technologies, It Operations, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- A thought about Utility Computing
- A thought about Utility ComputingThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Data Center.Nicholas Carr is Earth's answer to Oolon Colluphid. Everywhere he looks, IT is dying. I expect him to release his new book, "Well, That About Wraps It Up For IT" any day now.Of course, centralized processing is not the entire...
- Tags: Hitchhiker, IT IS, utility computing, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Cloud computing - in your dreams
- A particularly odd bit of goofiness has hit the infosphere: cloud/utility computing mania. Nick Carr has written a book. IBM has announced, for the umpteenth time, a variation on utility computing, now called cloud computing. Somebody at Sun is claiming they'll get rid of all their data centers by 2015....
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Computing, IBM Corp., Syllogism, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?
- Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?Sadly, the internetis becoming little more than another method to extract dollars from its users by those with a vested intrest in doing so. As to Google, I see so many cheering for them I often wonder if they have ever stopped to...
- Tags: INTERNET, Nick Carr
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk follows on my review of Nick Carr's new book with the saga of his own trying exegesis of the text. "You're obsessed with sex," said my ZDNet handler, looking angrier than a caucuser who had just switched his vote from Chris...
- Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Human Resources, Internet, Nick Carr, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center
- Nick Carr, the Paul Revere of utility computing, blogged about HP reducing its data centers from over 80 to 6 and Sun's effort to shut down all its internal data centers by 2013. To achieve even greater efficiency will require a higher level of consolidation - across companies...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Utility Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Facebook's lack of data portability raises as many questions as provides answers
- Yesterday I reported on Robert Scoble's attempts to scrape data from his Facebook account for import to another social networking service. That data turned out to be names, email addresses and date of birth. The social network was Plaxo Pulse. From Scoble's blog: What does it...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook, Data, E-mail Address, Robert Scoble, E-mail, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Plaxo gives Facebook a litmus test
- The new year in social networking is picking up where it left off with Plaxo letting loose a Facebook data importer see Techmeme for the full debate. Robert Scoble was given an alpha version of Plaxo's Facebook contact data importer, and the Facebook engine shut him down. So far Facebook...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook, Data, E-mail, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
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