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A colleague asked some of us here: “Does the enterprise data center as we know it needs to change?“ My immediate thought was “Of course it needs to change!” The typical raised floor data center is filled with isolated hardware running independently managed operating systems. These...
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In a recent article in Computerworld there was a discussion of the phenomenon of cloud computing expanding uncontrollably in an enterprise. Cloud was compared to the client/server and departmental computing shift that took place in the late 80s and 90s. I agree that this is a concern, but as presented...
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In Computer magazine , there was a recent article Beyond Asimov: The Three Laws of Responsible Robotics. This article addressed a perspective I've always had - Robots will need to have significantly more "perceptual and reasoning capabilities" in order to even approach being able to follow...
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There seems to be a bountiful crop of new programming languages springing up. As cloud computing moves beyond IaaS to PaaS , I wonder about the effect of cloud standardization on these new languages. Granted there is only an infinitesimal percentage of executable code that runs in a cloud environment...
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The July 2009 edition of the Wired has an article titled " Waste is Good ," and it focuses on an area I've talked about on this blog numerous times. As we enter the age of data by having a wired edge of the enterprise during the abundance for cloud computing (from cloud), we will use those...
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In March 2009, there was a symposium titled Computing Research that Changed the World . Ed Lazowska from the University of Washington gave the introductory talk, "Changing the World," and the symposium offered four sessions, which are now available as videos on the link above. I just had a...
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We have seen the early versions of Cloud Computing models, with the promise of rapid service invocation, pay-per-use, ease of scaling, and simplified service-to-service interaction, and one can only help but think back to the mid-‘90s when the Internet and the Internet Protocol , HTML , HTTP ,...
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Darrel Thomas
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05-15-2009
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Filed under: Applications, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , SaaS, Applications, IT Services
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In part 1 , I discussed the motivation and expected benefits that many enterprises are seeking from the use of cloud computing services. In this entry, I'll briefly compare and contrast the non-cloud alternatives, and how enterprises can consider which workloads can be used for different style of...
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I recently saw this article on Five cloud computing myths exploded . It is focused on: Cloud computing is one of the most overhyped phenomena to have hit the IT industry in a long time. It is a business model that definitely has its advantages. The trouble is vendors of all sizes and stripes are so desperate...
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Charlie Bess
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03-09-2009
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Filed under: Applications, Business Process Outsourcing, Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, IT Services, Operations, Business process outsourcing , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , Operations , Applications, IT Services
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A while back I wrote a blog entry about the age of abundance in computing . Recently, I exchanged some email with Ken Orr (of Cutter) about the issues related to maximizing value delivered from multi-core solutions using parallel processing techniques. He expressed an " assembly line " view...
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Charlie Bess
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07-21-2008
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Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, SaaS, Vision, Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , SaaS, Vision , Applications
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Last week I saw a demonstration of Project Caroline at Sun. Its main design features are to: Enable services to programmatically allocate, monitor, and control virtualized compute, storage, and networking resources. Expose resources through high level abstractions, including language level virtual machines...