By James Governor on March 22, 2010
My efforts at cloud definitional work began with 15 Ways to Tell its Not Cloud Computing. In the intervening time the forces of complexity and, yes, pragmatism have triumphed. We’re now making the long transition from simple and public to complex and private – hopefully some simplicity will make it through the process. Talking of […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged burgers, Cloud, Cloud Computing, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, metaphors, middleware, PaaS, Platform as a service, SaaS, software as a service, Storage
By Tom Raftery on February 3, 2010
Photo credit Tom Raftery
I published this post on the IBM Global Eco Jam last week and it generated some interesting feedback so I thought I’d re-publish it here too to solicit your thoughts –
I was at the NewNet CleanTech Investors Summit in London last November.
At this event a poll was taken asking which […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged battery batteries, Energy, energy density, energy storage, nanotechnology, stanford, Storage, thermal storage, zinc, zinc air |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 27, 2010
Oracle Rolls Out A New “Red Stack”
With EU approval out of the way, Oracle finalizes the Sun deal and resumes its quest for the largest share of the IT wallet. Oracle’s 60+ acquisitions follow a concerted strategy and Sun adds key areas such as servers and storage. Key areas include Vertical Apps, Horizontal Apps, Middleware, […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisitions, BlueStack, Database, ecosystems, enterprise apps, enterprise software, event report, mergers, middleware, oracle, Oracle-Sun, partners, RedStack, servers, Storage, Sun, vendor events, vendor strategy, virtual machines
By James Governor on January 13, 2010
The idea of a cloud drive or folder in the sky is obviously a good one. We’ve been waiting for how long for the fabled gDrive? As a Google Enterprise customer I am glad to know I can now upload any kind of file, up to 250MB, into my account. Very handy. But the use […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, Cloud, Cloud Computing, docs, gdrive, google, Google Docs, iPhone, Office, online storage, Storage, synchronization
By R "Ray" Wang on January 6, 2010
High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1). In addition, rapidly changing business […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 22, 2009
Keep In Mind Basic Rules Still Apply Regardless Of Deployment Option
The proliferation of SaaS solutions provides organizations with a myriad of sorely needed point and disruptive solutions. Good news – business users can rapidly procure and deploy, while innovating with minimal budget and IT team constraints. Bad news – users must depend more on their […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on November 17, 2009
Why would Cisco move down into 25% mainstream server margin business when its networking business has yielded it 65%? That is the question many asked as Cisco announced its Unified Computing System in early 2009. Its marketing said it “..represents a radical simplification of traditional architectures, dramatically reducing the number of devices that must be […]
Posted in Business | Tagged 3com, Cisco, disruption, Hewlett-Packard, hp, Industry Commentary, Mark Hurd, Networking, Storage
By Jeff Nolan on October 25, 2009
What comes after hard drives? Good question and one that is critical to our future computing ambitions.
According to a new study, if HDDs continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020 a two-disk, 2.5-inch disk drive will be capable of storing more than 14 TB and will cost about $40 (today, […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged data, Hard disk drive, Harddrive, Hardware, Storage
HP, the Disruptor?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on November 17, 2009
Why would Cisco move down into 25% mainstream server margin business when its networking business has yielded it 65%? That is the question many asked as Cisco announced its Unified Computing System in early 2009. Its marketing said it “..represents a radical simplification of traditional architectures, dramatically reducing the number of devices that must be […]
Posted in Business | Tagged 3com, Cisco, disruption, Hewlett-Packard, hp, Industry Commentary, Mark Hurd, Networking, Storage