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Google Apps Gets Power Panel, Single Sign-On

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

LTech, a little friend of Google’s, has spun up the first Power Panel for Google Apps to give enterprises moving to the cloud central administrative functionality. It’s also announced Single Sign-On for Google Apps now that Google Apps are pushing deeper into the enterprise. The Power Panel add-on, which LTech already know is gonna be popular, offers features such as Contact Journal, Shared Contact Search, Quick Links and an integration framework for CRM and enterprise data.

Kindle 2 vs Nook

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:30:00 EST

Barnes & Noble just recently unveiled their upcoming eReader, the Nook. On the blog of my non-techy alter-ego I've posted a comparison of the two readers that is entirely based on my own personal feelings of what is cool and what isn't, so take it as opinion and certainly not as a technical review. Click here to check out the blog post.

Instant Professionalism Online Despite Yourself...with Ulitzer

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:45:00 EST

I read an article by an author on Ulitzer.com and was amazed at the professional image it provided him. I immediately researched Ulitzer to see if there was yet hope for me. I am a technology blogger on the subject of mobile computing strategies. As I was doing research I came across the author Ian Thain, a fellow mobile computing blogger, who had a very professional website on Ulitzer (www.ulitzer.com). Professional envy motivated me to investigate this thing called Ulitzer. Ian's website looked like he had spent a great deal of time and money on it - all things I am short on.

Oracle Solutions Expo Online

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

Are you facing critical business and IT challenges? Do you have pressing deadlines to meet these challenges? Do you need solution ideas FAST?

Lousy Shelters

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:09:00 EST

It was an early morning at King’s Cross, where I live. Well, used to live would probably be the right term. You see I don’t live in a nice flat or in a big house. I live on the streets. Actually I was a normal hardworking guy just like you. But all that changed when I lost my job earlier this year.

IBM's Smarter Cloud

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:45:00 EST

A recent announcement from IBM signaled the open beta program of its newest cloud offering: IBM Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. One of the newest offerings in the suite of cloud products from IBM, the IBM Cloud provides a public cloud where users can launch and run selected IBM software.

Towards a Cyber Deterrent: Are We Getting Any Closer?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:15:00 EST

A year and a half ago I pulled together several thoughts on Cyber Deterrence which had come out of years of dialog on the cyber threat. I wanted to capture some key challenges since in my view many were making foolish assumptions regarding what our nation should do in the domain of cyber. There is [...] Related posts:

Google Books Settlement 2.0?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:30:00 EST

Google has announced a revised settlement [redlined pdf faq pdf] that it hopes will address the concerns raised by the Department of Justice and many other groups. Here's a summary of the summary Google provides [pdf], although IANAL and I encourage you to read the summary, which is written ...

Stanford’s eCorner: Leveling the Intellectual Playing Field

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

What? Leveling the intellectual playing field with Stanford? The home of elite, wealthy and over-privileged? Suddenly I am inside an auditorium at Stanford University, listening to guest lecturers speaking to a class at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

Cloud Talk with Peter Coffee of Salesforce.com

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:45:00 EST

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Coffee, of eWeek fame. Peter, as industry veterans may be aware, was eWeek’s Technology Editor, and is now Director of Platform Research for Salesforce.com, a leader in cloud computing. Our conversation began with my blatant attempt at gaining insight about Salesforce’s strategic roadmap, knowing full well only [...]

Just What Exactly Is Email For?

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:30:00 EST

I don’t know about you, but when I get long emails my eyes go running around my head. Too many words for me to take in during a busy day when I’m sure I’m suffering from some form of ADHD as I try to multitask beyond human capability. So I ask folks to please, please, puLEASE not send me long emails. But they do anyway. And then they get mad when I don’t read them – especially when they’ve written something personal. They actually expect me to put down what I’m doing and read a one-way missive, interpret what they are meaning and feeling against how I interpret their words, then gather my own thoughts and feelings along the way that I can’t manage cuz the communication is one-way and obviously my thoughts and feelings have no credence – and then, then… then what? I can’t remember what I was thinking and feeling with each paragraph or thought, so I have to go back. And god forbid if I miss something!!

Abu Dhabi Means To Become a Chip Contender

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

Waleed Al Muhairi, the COO of Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi government-owned investor in AMD as well as the chairman of Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), AMD’s Abu Dhabi government-owned partner in Globalfoundaries, its fab spin-out, said at a conference in Dubai Sunday that a chip plant would be up and spitting out parts in Abu Dhabi in four years. It would be the country’s first fab. The idea is for it to employ 30,000-40,000 people by 2030 – after it builds up an infrastructure and education helped along by MIT. According to Reuters, Muhairi said $10 billion has already been committed to the business through Globalfoundaries, which is in the process of acquiring Singapore-based contract manufacturer Chartered Semiconductor and its 150 customers for $1.8 billion. The object of the game is to cut both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), contract manufacturing’s leader, and Intel down to size. Muhairi figures Globalfoundaries can take out all the other fabs besides TSMC. Not to get political or anything but some of Intel’s best design work is done in Israeli and it makes 45nm parts there too.

Fuel for Thought – Global Media Giant Goes Green

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:48:00 EST

Studies show that the information and communications technology industry contributes two percent of the world's carbon emissions - that's greater than that of the entire aviation industry. More worryingly, this figure is expected to grow significantly over the next decade.”

Amazon To Expand into Asia

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:02:00 EST

Amazon Web Services LLC, the company’s cloud arm, figures to push into Asia-Pacific in the first half of next year, so businesses can deploy its EC2 compute and S3 storage resources closer to their end users there to minimize latency and increase performance. It said software developers and businesses will be able to access its infrastructure services from multiple Availability Zones in Singapore in the first half, then in other Availability Zones in undisclosed locations in Asia in the second half.

Latin America Turns Challenges into Opportunity Through Innovation

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:45:00 EST

Led by Miguel Angel Garay – CEO Central America, AMNET Telecommunications, a consortium of over fifty world telecom leaders united this week in Panama at the illustrious NGT Summit and outlined the ethos that innovation is the key to exploit the inevitable growth.

The Mobile Web: It's About Footprint

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:40:00 EST

The mobile web's momentum continues unabated with Google's acquisition of AdMob and Apple's Shocking Numbers for iPhone app usage. The whole thing is reminiscent of the introduction of the IBM PC back in 1981(?). Brief memory lane diversion: I sold my first PC system in 1982 and it ran a company's whole accounting system off a single 5.25 inch floppy drive. But reminiscent only in a far-off, Stewart McKienoreply@blogger.com0

New Media First Movers May Not Win

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:15:00 EST

When an enterprise declares its intention to implement Web 2.0, it could be attempting to do one of the following things: Use social networking sites available on the web (Blog, FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.) to reach out to their customers to … … sell to them … provide after sale services Use technologies classified under Web 2.0 (Wiki, Blog, [...]

Enterprise 2.0 and Mobile Software Applications

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:05:00 EST

The term Enterprise 2.0 is receiving a lot of press these days (see definition of Enterprise 2.0). In this article we are going to discuss possible use cases for Enterprise 2.0 in the context of enterprise mobile applications. Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen defined Enterprise 2.0 in this way, "a system of web based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration (kudos for buzz words), information sharing, emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise." The bottom line, unstructured information sharing tools for use by the enterprise.

Open-Xchange Announces Agreement with Dotster

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EST

Open-Xchange, the leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced today an agreement with Dotster, Inc., a leading full-service provider of essential resources for businesses and individuals to get online and grow online, to deploy Open-Xchange for its e-mail users. Dotster has established itself among the world's largest domain name registrars with more than 3 million domain holdings under management and servicing hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.rs.

IBM Betas Test & Dev Cloud

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

It’s called plainly enough IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud and will provide compute and storage as a service with Rational Software Delivery Services, WebSphere middleware and Information Management database thrown in.

Richard Marcello from Unisys Makes the Enterprise Cloud Computing Case

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

Marcello will be delivering the Expo's initial keynote address, at 2pm on Monday, delivering his views on why "The Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing."Marcello, who spent many years at another enterprise technology giant, HP, before joining Unisys, outlined his vision and views in an exclusive interview with Jeremy Geelan in the runup to the Expo. During his keynote, he is expected to expound on his views, making the case for enterprise cloud computing in general and the role of Unisys in this market in particular.

First Week Fast Growth

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EDT

So, the first week "on the air" went very well. Not an easy week, but remarkable good. We rapidly increase our midstock and microstock collection of royalty free images and this keeps our hands busy all the time. The infrastructure we choose for www.pixamba.com is extremely versatile and can be adjusted according to the system load and storage capacity. Since both the load and the images collection growth all the time, and fast, we work around the clock ensuring high system uptime and short response time. It seems that we are on the right way: the response time of the system is very good even now and it is going to be even faster soon, when we'll do some more IT & development work.

To Stop the Cloud Storm, You Must See Inside the Running Cloud Application

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:45:00 EDT

When application performance is not what the cloud customer expected, who’s at fault? The cloud provider’s infrastructure? The application owner’s code? The platform vendor’s deployment tools? The external services the application uses? The database tier? Only by seeing inside the production application as it is running can developers, cloud and platform providers, and IT operations teams find the answers and fix the problems. At the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, Lewis Cirne will discuss how everyone concerned about application performance will need to monitor, troubleshoot and optimize cloud-based web applications. Visibility into the application layer is critical to successful cloud use.

Create Free Web Player with Moyea PlayerBox

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:00:00 EDT

When creating and designing your website and blog, do you want to create your own web player to present videos? It's time to get your own player with Moyea PlayerBox, which facilitates player creation and player skinning with new version.

Cloud Expo Keynote Speaker Shelton Shugar to Discuss Yahoo! Cloud Services

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:45:00 EDT

Yahoo! is developing and utilizing Internet-scale cloud computing services to improve Yahoo! consumer experience, speed innovation, simplify operating environments, and reduce costs. Yahoo! Cloud Services are in production today supporting web-serving properties and data processing environments. Keynote Speaker Shelton Shugar will also discuss how Yahoo! Cloud Services store and deliver web content, personalize content for consumers, optimize Ad selection and placement, improve search results, provide scalable virtual computing environments, and process and store enormous amounts of data to improve consumer experiences and drive innovation.

CA to Discuss Cloud Security and Management at Cloud Computing Expo

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:30:00 EDT

CA today announced that two executives will present standalone sessions at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo about how both service providers and IT organizations can help mitigate risks, such as performance, availability, change and security, in cloud environments. Tim Brown, CA distinguished engineer and chief security architect of CA's Security Management business unit, will present "Securing the Cloud and Establishing a Level Trust" on Wednesday, November 4 at 5:25 p.m. PT. The session will discuss security risks in cloud computing and the need for multiple organizations to establish a level of trust and security within the cloud, to manage and protect personal and business-confidential data and information.

Next-Generation On-Demand

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:30:00 EDT

The SaaS pioneers have given us a taste of the potential of On-Demand, however, we've only scratched the surface in terms of what's to come and the future model for how the next generation of enterprise software will be delivered. In this session Sal Visca, Chief Technology Officer for SAP's Technology Development business, will walk through his perspective on where the world of Enterprise Software is headed next - putting On-Demand into the context of the enterprise world.

Top Infrastructure Headaches When Managing Applications in the Cloud

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:00:00 EDT

This session addresses some of the biggest challenges in creating and launching successful web applications with little to no down time. As developers attempt to build the next best consumer-facing app to Twitter, Facebook and Hulu, the demand for scalable and reliable infrastructure will only increase. Chris Richardson, will also discuss how cloud computing has changed the web application landscape and address the missing elements in making sure future web apps are built for the masses.

Key Challenges in Cloud Computing, and How Yahoo! is approaching Them

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Cloud Computing is receiving a lot of attention, and a number of companies see it as a key to increased agility and efficiency. At the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, Raghu Ramakrishnan will talk about the technology which is still at an early stage and many fundamental challenges need to be addressed before the full promise of the paradigm can be realized.

The Cloudy World of Disposable IT

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EDT

The way software is being developed and deployed is changing beyond recognition now: businesses can now mix and match existing premised-based processes run on legacy applications designed entirely on the Cloud without the need to translate business wishes into complex requirement specification documents. Jon Pyke will also talk about how applications can be used on-demand, and businesses can avoid capital expenditures almost entirely and that any operational expenditure exists only as a result of a revenue stream.

Cannibalizing Google App Engine

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Google App Engine is an integrated web-stack, so it may not be apparent that its computing resources can be dismembered and consumed in isolation. In this session Kevin Noonan will teach you how to use BigTable, the sweetmeat of Google technology, as a scalable database for desktop or remote web applications. Also learn how to run scheduled tasks and work queues to move App Engine beyond a web-stack to a general computing platform.

Law in the Cloud - How Lawyers and Clients Both Benefit from Cloud Computing

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:30:00 EDT

Lawyers often get a bad rap -¬ just consider all of those ubiquitous lawyer jokes. Why? One reason for the "lawyer stigma" is because of the traditionally high cost of legal services, and that people often only talk to lawyers when things go wrong. Charley Moore will expand upon this because now, thanks to new applications of cloud computing, lawyers are changing the way they do business - so that both lawyers and clients can work together smarter.

Case Study: Disaster Recovery in the Storage Cloud

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:45:00 EDT

Iowa Health System (IHS) will share lessons learned from delivering private cloud storage services to its state-wide constituents including 11 hospitals and 130+ clinics. In particular, Tony Langenstein will share the dramatic story and photos from a catastrophic flood that incapacitated one of the main data centers, which hosted some of the cloud storage components. The discussion will focus around the issue protecting mission-critical data in the cloud.

Does Enterprise-Class Cloud Storage Really Exist?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:45:00 EDT

As the market for cloud storage continues to heat-up, numerous cloud storage providers have started to emerge. However, Dr. Moe Kermani will discuss that it is not clear if these providers have the required infrastructure components to deliver an enterprise-class service that is supported by service level agreements.

Leveraging Cloud-Based Integration to Increase Customer Loyalty

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:15:00 EDT

In the current economic climate, keeping customers happy and protecting your revenue base is critical to survival and growth. Join customer relationship and integration expert Trisha Gross in this session to learn how to cost-effectively build business integration communities in the cloud to retain customers, grow revenue and beat the competition. Gross will provide real world examples of how companies use cloud-based integration to achieve business process automation with customer-related processes.

Partly Cloudy - The Need for Hybrid Clouds

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:45:00 EDT

Managing petabytes of unstructured data in the cloud brings forth both challenges and great opportunities. However, to fully benefit from cloud computing, we cannot look at it as new technology, but rather as an extension of today's existing IT infrastructure. In this session, Mike Feinberg, will address the key advantages of extending your infrastructure into the cloud in order to cost effectively scale and meet the growing demands of your business.

Cloud Computing as a Strategy: Enabling IT's Evolutionary Change

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:30:00 EDT

This session deconstructs cloud computing into its true value proposition. Traditional IT operations are buckling under the increased demand from business organizations. A significant change is needed. Game-changing strategies for IT organizations will be outlined to address this increase in demand. A "cloud" framework will be detailed that includes SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). At the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, Tim Crawford will cover specific customer value opportunities and provider market opportunities.

Understanding the Relationship Between Workloads and the Cloud

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:15:00 EDT

The applications that support of an enterprise exhibit a wide range of operational characteristics. That diversity is the key to business success, but it has consequences. In his general session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Tony Bishop, Founder and CEO of Adaptivity, discusses three different perspectives that must be accommodated. He will also discuss how Enterprise Cloud Computing enables IT as a service and is the next phase in data center evolution to solve this spiraling dilemma. How does business successfully operate this expensive investment? The solution lies with understanding workload characteristics fundamentals to tailor (but finite) solutions.

Google Apps: Not as Cheap as They Look

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:00:00 EDT

The city of Los Angeles can’t make up its mind whether to trash its clunky Novell system and go with Google Apps for e-mail and office applications, citing costs and necessity. It was supposed to be a showcase account for Google. The decision will now move from LA’s budget and finance committee to the full city council for a vote next week, according to the LA Times.

Adaptivity & Cloud Computing: Exclusive Q&A with CEO Tony Bishop

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:45:00 EDT

Adaptivity provides integrated solutions that automate IT Delivery optimization across enterprise computing environments. In this exclusive Q&A for Cloud Computing Journal with SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, Tony Bishop – CEO of Adaptivity – discusses Adaptivity’s “IT Transformation Factory” and their Cloud Computing strategy.

Twitter Is Worth a Billion – An Analyst's View of Why

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:30:00 EDT

Twitter's $1 Billion valuation has definitely stolen the spotlight over the past few weeks. According to a recently released Twitter users study by Crowd Science among other findings: 11% of Twitter users admitted to accessing social media while driving during the preceding 30 days, compared with [...]

Eric Schmidt: Born to Pay Retail

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Google CEO Eric Schmidt hails from a culture born to pay retail. Remember Sun paid $2 billion for Cobalt Networks and might as well have lit cigars with the money, a billion for MySQL and $4.1 billion for StorageTek. So it’s no surprise to read on CNET that he thinks he paid a billion dollars too much for YouTube. CNET knows this because Eric said in a sworn deposition in May that he told his board the 18-month-old revenue-free video site was worth between $600 million and $700 million on a gut hunch yet – spooked that Microsoft or Yahoo would pluck it off the vine – paid $1.65 billion in stock for the thing.

Groundbreaking Agreement Between Verizon and Google

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Integral to this agreement is a commitment by the companies to devote substantial resources to accelerate delivery of leading-edge innovation that will put unique applications in the hands of consumers quickly. The two industry leaders will create, market and distribute products and services, with Verizon Wireless also contributing the breadth of its nationwide distribution channels. Consumers will be able to purchase products resulting from the collaboration in Verizon Wireless retail and online stores.

Ulitzer Aid Campaign for the Typhoon Ondoy Victims

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:30:00 EDT

Yesterday morning I checked the Ulitzer home page on my iPhone on my way to the office and I realized two of the top three stories were about the "Typhoon Ondoy" in Philippines. 36 hours later we still have three stories filed from Manila on Ulitzer's home page. Top Ulitzer stories on Ulitzer from around the 25 distinct subject categories it covers are processed every 60 minutes and displayed by an algorithm which we believe is more sophisticated than , say, Google News algorithms.

Cloud Computing By Industry

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:45:00 EDT

As enterprises seek to exploit cloud computing, business leaders are focused on new productivity benefits, on how to make the most of cloud computing for innovative solving of industry-level problems.

Has Virtualization Solved the Data Center Crisis?

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Over the past several years, many IT departments have committed to virtualization as an antidote to the spiraling costs and inflexibility plaguing corporate data centers everywhere. By running applications on virtual servers and consolidating underutilized hardware, data centers can get maximum value from their equipment. Virtualization also makes IT more responsive to the needs of the business: rather than spending weeks or months to provision a physical server, a virtual server can be launched in minutes.

Cloud Computing & Federal IT - What Does the Future Hold?

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:00:00 EDT

In a fast-moving discussion panel to round off an intense day of breakout sessions that is due to kick off with a keynote on Enterprise Cloud Computing by the Deputy CIO of the CIA, this SYS-CON.TV "Power Panel" will seek to match emerging federal cloud computing requirements against emerging capabilities from cloud providers to reveal the likely course of action for Federal decision makers. It will be moderated by Jeremy Geelan, GovIT Expo Conference Chair.

Google’s Out Shopping

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:45:00 EDT

With the worst of the economic downturn abating, Google, which stopped buying up small companies a few months ago ostensibly because prices were too high, is back scouting deals again. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters TV that he expects to close a small acquisition a month. He described the purchase as “in lieu of hiring.”

Swedish Government Bans the Word "Bank" from .SE Domains

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:00:00 EDT

A major uproar has been brewing in Sweden over a recent government ruling banning the word "bank" from any Swedish domains that do not fit the official definition of a financial banking institution. (Basically *bank.se) On Thursday The Pirate Bay pledged it's support joining in the protest against the Swedish Post- and Telecoms Authority (PTS) The list has since started growing by hundreds of names per hour. It is run by the web host Binero to protest against the PTS decision to subject all Swedish se-domain names containing the word “bank” to an inspection prior to registration. This to insures that anyone that might be confused with a bank actually fulfills the legal requirements for one. It is a departure from international standards, where issues are solved, usually by a Uniform Dispute Resolution Process (UDRP) once they arise after registration.

The big concern isn't specifically about the word bank so much as it sets a precedent for other words in the future. Think about if words such as cloud or science or music require official approval by a government agency before you could register the domain.

The Swedish Bankers’ Association have lobbied for restrictions on domain names for a long time, making an interpretation of the Swedish law mandating that anyone using “Bank” as a name in their business must fulfill the requirements of one.

Their arguments is that the banks have not been able to show evidence of fraudulent “bank”-sites, that typosquatting would not be stopped, whereas many Swedes would have a more difficult time registering, that scrutinizing new businesses before domain registration would be injust and, above all, that the approval of name scrutinization prior to registration would spread to many other names; titles protected by law, names of public authorities, brands, racist words etc.

“To diverge from the democratic country norm of problem resolution post rather than pre registration, and to do it for a common word and name like “Bank” is dangerous. It makes it legally and logically plausible for many groups to lobby for scrutinizing an unforeseeable number of other words and names pre registration as well,”said Binero CEO Anders Aleborg, continuing:

“All countries have the same problem and lobby groups like our big banks. There is a big risk that this form of net censorship might spread if Sweden does it.”

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For more information:

Anders Aleborg, CEO, Binero, +46 768-04 42 00, anders.aleborg@binero.se

Erik Arnberg, Marketing Manager, Binero, +46 70-398 75 34, erik.arnberg@binero.se

Swedish Government IT-advisor Patrik Fältström (Paf) blog: http://stupid.domain.name/node/812#comment

.SE home page re: this: http://www.iis.se/en/domaner/bank-i-domannamn/

PTS English home page: http://www.pts.se/en-gb/

Namnbank.se (Swedish): http://www.namnbank.se

Press pictures, Anders Aleborg, http://blogg.binero.se/press/

Binero AB is a web host and registrar with the ambition of being the friendliest in Sweden; transparency, honesty and friendliness.

Moore’s Law and the Cloud Inflection in IT Staffing

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:00:00 EDT

I was in a meeting last week with Gartner’s Ben Pring and he made an interesting observation that cloud computing at the end is just a result of Moore’s law. The concept is fairly simple and charts a path of increasingly distributed computing from mainframes, to minicomputers, to workstations and PCs (which resulted in client/server), [...]