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...
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The clip below is Larry Ellison giving some context on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun. His mantra: complete, integrated, focused on business value for customers.
I have more context and opinions coming in a follow-on post.
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In my earlier post, when I railed against the iPad, it was mostly personal disappointment and letdown. I was disappointed by the technical specs, most notably the aspect ratio, and the exclusion of USB, HDMI, and webcams. Those items can all be added on in later iterations (which I firmly believe they will –...
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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...
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Most enterprise technologists should see a continued payoff of the hard work in planning, architecture, documentation, development and configuration work that has been occurring over the last several years. Enterprise technologists were building Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) long before SOA was over-hyped. And most enterprise technologists I know were investigating constructs of scalable, elastic...
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I’d like to refer all interested in the topic of Cloud Computing to the blog of Reuven Cohen. Reuven blogs at http://elasticvapor.com He can also be found on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/ruv
Although I’ve been a long distance follower of Reuven for a while, I was particularly appreciative of his post titled “Anatomy of a...
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I really feel sorry for the modern consumer. None of us, even those of us with computer science degrees, can really assess the security of our computer systems (at least not with any precision). We can study historical trends and glean lessons on which operating systems are more secure and we can educate ourselves...
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I hope to see you at the Sys-Con sponsored Gov IT Conference and Expo 6 Oct 2009. I’ll be there to learn from some great practitioners and IT providers. See: http://govitexpo.com for more.
I’ll also spend time during the day attending the day thinking through everything I’ve ever written and learned about Cloud...
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I’ve mentioned before that I run my small business, Crucial Point LLC, primarily by leveraging cloud computing capabilities. With this post I’ll mention a book that helped me do that: Google Apps: The Missing Manual.
This book does a great job at capturing the core functionality of Google Apps. However, no book can keep up...
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I’ve had the pleasure of watching and studying many enterprise class CIOs and CTOs. And I’ve performed CIO duties and once was an enterprise CTO myself. In my opinion, enterprise CIOs and CTOs have it really really hard. The bigger the enterprise the harder it can be to get anything done. There are lots...
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