When Google kicked of the I/O 2013 in San Francisco On May 15, 2013, the hope was high that the next generation version of Android (version 4.3) would be announced. The company highlighted the dominance of the mobile ecosystem, noting … Continue reading
The Dutch tulip mania bubble of 1637 was reborn as Bitcoin. This began in mid-March 2013 and and continues today. As many already know, during the golden age, contract prices for tulips rose as unsustainable levels. When we are taught … Continue reading
Rumors circulated on March 26 2013 that PayPal and EBay could replace VMware with OpenStack. PayPal may use around 10,000 servers to support VMware. The rumor originated from an OpenStack consultancy, so the extra attention for the open source software … Continue reading
In an ideal IT world, nothing would ever apparently fail. No matter what’s happening, everything would always be working. Changes would just flow into place (and could be backed out just as easily). Sounds impossible. If you use Amazon, Facebook, … Continue reading
Your network infrastructure has most likely become business critical. Ask yourself – what would happen to my business if the internal network and the Internet were both unavailable for an extended period of time? Networks provide the “glue” to interconnect … Continue reading
Most people in enterprise IT work don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how start ups handle their IT needs. They should. Start up companies are the canaries in the coal mine giving early warning of changes ahead. Remember, … Continue reading
The word “service” is everywhere these days….to a point where it’s becoming a disservice to use it! Recently, while preparing Canadian comments on the emerging ISO/ITU reference architecture for cloud computing, I had to stop and ask myself the question … Continue reading
IT folk tend not to look at technology choices the way, say, a market speculator would. That’s not a bad thing, by the way, it’s a generally good thing. However, market manoeuvres do have an effect on what comes to … Continue reading
Following up on this post comparing Google+ and Facebook for businesses, Engadget mentioned comments by Larry Page in a Wired interview. Page acknowledged that Facebook owns social (not his words), but that Facebook is doing a “really bad job” with its … Continue reading
How many corporations are still running Windows 2000 or Windows 2003? Is there any incentive to upgrade each server to Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008, when centralizing the data centre and corporate server environment makes far more sense? Consolidating physical servers … Continue reading
I was watching the coverage of the US Presidential election on TV last night, and presumably many (or most) of you were too. I flipped channels for a while but eventually settled on the CNN broadcast. I have to admit … Continue reading
The cloud changes everything. Unfortunately, some of the things a shift to cloud computing that aren’t obvious can add significant cost and pain to a cloud strategy if you’re not careful. The cloud (just to take one example) isn’t just … Continue reading
How many more reports pointing out the productivity gap between the promise of IT and the results actually seen in the economy are we going to have to listen to before we get the message? Whatever we’re doing, we’re not … Continue reading
What, at the end of the day, is the promise of cloud computing? Simplicity. What the cloud promises is information power without worrying about the mechanics of delivering it. Much like your home — you replace the old television with … Continue reading
