Published by rwatstein September 27th, 2008
in cloud computing.
As more IT pros investigate their companies’ cloud computing options, they run into a crowd of new, relatively unknown vendors. Appirio, Coghead, Kaavo, Mosso, ParaScale, and dozens of other startups are taking their places alongside Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems in delivering IT resources as services rather than packaged products. Why consider a startup when established players offer cloud services at seemingly lower risk? The cloud computing market is so broad–comprising software, server capacity, storage, middleware, virtualization, security, and management tools delivered as services–that even the biggest vendors can’t excel at everything. Startups drive innovation and fill niches, often while pushing costs down and performance up.
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Social networking technologies, web mashups, multicore and hybrid processors, and cloud computing are among the 10 most disruptive technologies that will shape the IT landscape over the next five years, according to research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. David Cearley says that business applications will start to mirror the features found in popular consumer social software, such as Facebook and MySpace, as organizations look to improve employee collaboration and harness the community feedback of customers.
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Published by rwatstein May 26th, 2008
in technology, trends and cloud computing.
Let’s say that you’re Intel, and you spent $5.5 billion in capital expenditures in 2007, much of it on the 45nm transition, and all of it for the purpose of beating rivals at delivering performance-per-watt increases across a range of market segments that spans the computing spectrum from servers to ultraportable devices. What, then, are you supposed to think about Web 2.0, the resurgence of the thin client model, and the popular “cloud computing” notion that users should be able to do almost all of their work and play with nothing but a simple Web browser (maybe running on an ARM-powered web tablet)? Judging by the comments of some of the Intel folks in the recent Directions Symposium, the chipmaker thinks it stinks
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