Monday 12 July 2010, Microsoft announced and released a new version of its Windows Azure platform which will operate as an appliance. This platform, which is supported by a strong partner community (including Dell, Fujitsu and HP), provides enhanced means for enterprises to run cloud services, either internally or for their own customers. This is not, in my opinion, just your basic run of the mill IT news. At least not to technologists who track and … [Read more...]
Google Apps Even More Powerful Now
April 25, 2010 By
We have been writing for years about the megatrend of Cloud Computing, and have also underscored that many of the opinions on Cloud Computing reflected here are because of both hands-on experience with enterprise IT and also the use of cloud capabilities for our business at Crucial Point LLC. The core IT capabilities of our firm is run by Google Apps. This provides us with full featured cloud computing power in online applications like email, calendars, … [Read more...]
Some Thoughts on Femtocells
March 30, 2010 By
AT&T recently released their Femtocell. This device plugs into your home (or small office) network, and uses your current ISP to provide strong cell coverage. Currently, AT&T and Sprint are the only networks with full on femtocells. T-Mobile has their "Hotspot @ Home" which enables Wi-Fi phones to have better calling via your broadband internet, but is not an actual cell tower. AT&T's offering enables voice and data over the cell … [Read more...]
Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) and the Next-Generation Internet
March 9, 2010 By
We are all watching with interest the engineering of very high speed chips with multiple cores, and very high speed comms connectivity directly to those chips through optical connectors directly to end devices (like Light Peak). We are also watching increased broadband, including Fiber, directly to houses (like Fios, of course). But what about the backbone of the Internet? If the very near future sees computers which can send and receive 10Gig each, … [Read more...]
Google Apps: They keep adding cool features
January 28, 2010 By
While the entire tech world seemed focused on Apple during the iPad rollout, Google just kept serving in silence, keeping the innovation engines running without distraction. I sure enjoyed the iPad rollout. Although I was a little underwhelmed, I enjoyed watching the presentation and reading about it and enjoyed some good editorials by friends on Facebook. I also enjoyed that Ryan Kamauff used the CTOvision.com blog on 9 Jan 2010 to post comments and … [Read more...]
Google Surprise: A change in intent regarding China
January 12, 2010 By
Google did something brave today. Something I never thought they would do. They stood up to communist china. And they did what they did with a speed and certainty that should make us all proud. In a blog post on their official site, Google discloses what they know of several attempted penetrations of their Gmail system. They also indicate that there have been unauthorized accesses to user accounts, probably by theft of user passwords. In a blog … [Read more...]
The promise and peril of the White House Open Government Directive
December 11, 2009 By
One of the great resources for tracking trends in Open Government, Gov2.0 and related activities is GovFresh.com, a site I recommend all visit and bookmark and track. GovFresh founder Luke Fretwell can be found on GovLoop, LinkedIn, Twitter. Luke recently asked several folks who track the Gov2.0 scene for thoughts on the recent Reactions to the White House Open Government Directive. The directive itself is well worth a read: Open Government … [Read more...]
SpaceCurve is a fundamentally new kind of massively parallel analytical database technology
December 9, 2009 By
SpaceCurve is a new database technology. Their approach was designed to make indexing of geospatial polygon data effortless and so fast it is done in real-time (or "cyber time" as some of my friends have taken to saying). They do this by use of compute clusters that can scale from small to Internet-scale. The benefit of this approach is an ability to efficiently analyze social and semantic graphs, very very fast. Complex sensors and data sources … [Read more...]