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The lack of innovation from service providers is a constant and mournful refrain echoing around the industry. This plaintive and mournful dirge reminds me of Sisyphus, who was cursed to endlessly roll a boulder up…
Bureaucratic hierarchies are replaced by networks — engendered by low cost ubiquitous communication Unbundling — specialization and mass customisation Banking Education & Scientific Research Entertainment Mobile devices — we are all nodes on a network…
Following on from the bold assertion that 20% of IT departments would have no need for physical assets by 2012, Gartner have now turned their attention to the future of the Personal Computer. According to…
Writing in CIO magazine, Bernard Golden outlines some of the concepts that need to be understood when performing an OpEx versus CapEx calculation for IT infrastructure. For example, no-commitment OpEx (such as the classic Amazon…
Richard Fichera at Forrester reports a fascinating development in the server marketplace and its big new customer—the large scale cloud computing environments that are now the biggest single purchasers of server hardware. HP is creating…
Amazon AWS a $1 Billion business? Powered by Tableau
Preintegrated and, in many cases, simplified platforms for the development of general-purpose business applications will become a serious alternative for developing custom applications; ISVs will also find them a highly attractive option for delivering software-as-a-service…
The recent Amazon outage has created some heated discussion as to whether Amazon’s services are enterprise ready or not. Much of the discussion seems to miss the point. For example, saying that Amazon is not…
Randy Bias at CloudScaling has put together some interesting metrics on Amazon’s release cycle for the EC2 platform. The implication being that Amazon is growing its investment in EC2 at a significant rate to ensure…
From IBM developer works A new developerWorks global survey of 2,000 IT professionals indicates cloud computing and mobile application development are hot topics today, and are expected to emerge as the most in-demand platforms for…