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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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As I was packing for my recent vacation, I realized that I needed to take battery chargers for not just my SmartPhone, but also for my camera, two iPods, as well as my wife’s mobile phone. None of these chargers work on any of the other devices. One solution might be a universal charger, but I...
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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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There have been a number of stories lately about new flexible display types coming to market . It does make me wonder about their power consumption and the limits it will place on application. According to this story , flexible color displays are not that far off either. If you connect a flexible display...
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For the last 4 years I've put out a blog entry of my predictions for the coming year - like most others do. Since this is a year where the world will be coming out of a financial crisis, I'll try to be a bit more conservative than in the past. It this situation, the investments in technology...
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Charlie Bess
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12-29-2008
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Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Green IT, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, SOA, Vision, Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Green IT, Infrastructure , SaaS, SOA , Vision , 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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One thing that some people seem to overlook, is that when Moore's law packs in the transistors, it also enables much smaller power requirements and devices, for those applications that can deliver value within the performance constraints. This article in Technology Review shows an example processor...
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This month there is an article on the Memristor in IEEE spectrum . Anyone who knows anything about electronics is familiar with the holy trinity of electrical engineering: the resistor , the capacitor , and the inductor . In 1971, Leon Chua of UC Berkeley , predicted that there should be a fourth element...
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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...
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I went to the University of North Texas recently with a number of other folks to talk with a class completing their master’s degree in computer science. One of the topics we discussed was the rate of change of computing capability. A presenter provided a chart similar to the following: 2010 - 3,000 MIPS...