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War of the Worlds or Perfect Storm
May 5th
I’d like to refer to a couple of articles that help to illustrate that the smart phone wave is more than just a cool new gadget, but the collision of powerful empires.
War of the Worlds: RIM invented the smart phone market, and we’re proud as Canadians that a Canadian company is an innovative leader [...]
CloudCamp 2. Cloud Computing: Return on Investment
May 5th
This is another session from Cloudcamp that was held in Toronto on April 6, 2010. (Find the article about the first session, with links to the CloudCamp sound files and some presentations, here.) The session was facilitated by Dave Nielsen and discussed the ROI of cloud computing. The following questions were raised:
What is cloud computing [...]
One Ring to Rule them all
May 4th
10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 10 Gbps, _______
So what is the next number in this series? If my 12 year old son was asked to complete this series in his math class, I’m pretty sure that he would be able to put in 100Gbps, without even knowing what bps means.
For those of us in the IT industry [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 5 – High Performance Computing
Apr 30th
Now we’ve come to the earliest stage of market adoption, the Innovators. We have also come to the most interesting of computing classes, supercomputing, also commonly referred to as High Performance Computing (HPC). That HPC is the most interesting class of computing, is my perspective only, as are all these posts. If you find my [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 4 – Embedded Processors
Apr 29th
By now a trend is appearing – I’m working my way back through the technology adoption lifecycle. In the new year I was reading some blog posts and vendor literature on virtual machines in embedded computing. It was this reading that got me thinking about different value propositions of virtual machines in different computing classes [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 3 – Desktop Computers
Apr 28th
It’s Wednesday, the middle of the week, and also the middle of this series on analyzing virtualization technology by market adoption and value proposition. We’ve covered mainframe computing and compute servers, equipment the average person never sees, and even the IT professional usually administers remotely. We all use this type of computing, when we see [...]
VMforce: No Software + No Hardware?
Apr 28th
After hobbling thru the choppy live webcast yesterday and trying to piece together all the PR fluff, blogger commentary and random 140 character posts on Twitter I am still not sure how VMforce will be a monetize-able joint venture between VMware and SFDC. At one point in the conversation it was remarked [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 2 – Compute Servers
Apr 28th
In the first post of this series, we looked at the technology adoption life cycle, seven value propositions for market adoption of virtualization, five classes of computing and the maturity of virtualization in mainframe computers.
Over the last several years, virtual machines have seen major adoption in the commodity compute server market. I think it would [...]
Getting Social in Canada: Jive Software
Apr 27th
Today I attended Jive Software’s Get Social tour stop in Toronto and left impressed not only with the company’s software and strategy, but with the quality of attendance at the event. The event featured a hour (and a bit) of keynotes including a look at how Canada’s RIM has used Jive’s [...]
Cloudcamp 1. The unpanel
Apr 27th
A Cloudcamp was held in Toronto on April 6, 2010. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of a camp, it is usually an unconference: there is little or no traditional presentations (one active presenter vs. a more or less passive audience). Instead of that, most camps are unconferences where people [...]
Office in the Cloud Showdown: Office Web Apps vs Google Docs
Apr 23rd
Office 2010 is being released this week. Will its Office Web App beat Google’s Google Docs?
Microsoft Enterprise Solutions, Sneak Peak of Windows 7 Phone
Apr 19th
Microsoft illustrates its IT solutions in Azure, SharePoint, Visual Studio, and SQL Server. Microsoft’s application development on the Windows 7 Phone was also demoed.
SFDC and VMware: Software + Services comes to AppExchange?
Apr 14th
Salesforce.com continues to ramp up its cloud offering and bolster its position as a leading business applications provider for companies of all sizes. News is now out that later this month there will be a big announcement from SFDC and VMware of a joint product announcement – you can even see the mock up landing [...]
The cloud, why do you care?
Apr 13th
I was recently speaking at a Computerworld Canada event in Calgary and Edmonton, the focus was on Linux as the proper operating system for the cloud. While I brought over a decade of Linux in the enterprise experience to the discussion, my real focus was on the solution for business rather than the fact it was delivered as a cloud application or service.
IT leading the way… Ha
Apr 9th
You would think that as an IT manager, I would have a lot of say into the technology that makes my company tick. Unfortunately the reality is that most of the large systems you will ever implement as CIO or IT Manager, you will have very little say in.
This week was a great example. Our [...]
