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I have often described cloud computing as a classically disruptive business model, meaning that it effects major changes not only in how things get done, but even in how they are conceived. Notice there, that I didn’t describe cloud computing as a “technology.” The cloud is of course, a technological process, but when looking at [...]
When I was in college, there were still games afoot involving determining how many people you could put into a phone booth, a Volkswagen bug, or a single dorm room whilst loud music was playing. Alcohol was usually involved. In the world of technology today, the same concept (usually without the alcohol) dominates the industry [...]
It’s difficult sometimes for us old dogs to keep up to date with new terminology (well, relatively new, anyway). My own first experience with a computer was writing Fortran onto cardboard punch cards, which were fed into a hopper and processed by a huge mainframe at some distant University. We didn’t have the concept of [...]
The cloud has always been difficult to define, and indeed, the definition continues to evolve. The very word “cloud” confuses and befuddles, giving us the impression of something ethereal, impermanent and having no substance. This is where the people who made up the term failed – had they had a marketing firm behind them, perhaps [...]
It’s often said that we as humans use only about ten percent of our brains. Computers are the same way—we tend to use only a small percentage of a computer’s capacity, because we overprovision to guard against any possibility of running out of space. According to a recent Gartner webinar, the average [...]
Your virtualisation efforts may well have started out as a proof-of-concept, or as just an isolated project with a handful of servers, but success in one area inevitably leads to everybody else in the company wanting to jump on that bandwagon. There is, to be sure, an element of a “me too” effect in regards [...]