Archive for April, 2010
Is there peace without a Smart Phone?
Apr 30th
Over the past 2.5 years I have been addicted to my smart phone, not the worlds greatest, I’ve had both HTC Touch and Touch Pro with Windows Mobile 6.0 then 6.1. Yes, the web browsing was basic, the phone (voice calls) was bearable, but I have really enjoyed the syncing of all my email and [...]
A quick observation in education
Apr 30th
What my kids teach me is the use of a product or service can go beyond what I conceive it to be, therefore I must always keep an open mind.
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 5 – High Performance Computing
Apr 30th
Now we’ve come to the earliest stage of market adoption, the Innovators. We have also come to the most interesting of computing classes, supercomputing, also commonly referred to as High Performance Computing (HPC). That HPC is the most interesting class of computing, is my perspective only, as are all these posts. If you find my [...]
HP in the Palm of Your Hand
Apr 30th
Ok. Where did all the BlogIdollers that comment on smartphone announcements get to? I can’t believe I am the first to post on this topic! I read it in CNET News on the 28th – two whole days ago. There’s lots of questions aren’t there? $1.2 Billion for a company many thought was fading out [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 4 – Embedded Processors
Apr 29th
By now a trend is appearing – I’m working my way back through the technology adoption lifecycle. In the new year I was reading some blog posts and vendor literature on virtual machines in embedded computing. It was this reading that got me thinking about different value propositions of virtual machines in different computing classes [...]
MicroSkills and macro changes
Apr 29th
About 250,000 immigrants arrive to Canada each year. Most of them settle down, and find jobs, and many of these jobs are in the IT (I’d say even most of these jobs are, or were, until recent ridiculous changes in the occupation list came into effect, but then I am an IT person myself, so [...]
Social Media A CIO View
Apr 28th
Social What? Social Media, Social Networking, or Social Business as I prefer to call it. The name itself doesn’t really matter but the end goal is clear, for business users the ultimate goal doesn’t change, impact to the bottom line. The dot com era taught us that the models may change but the fundamentals of [...]
The Holy Grail to the Knowledge of Everything: Wolfram/Alpha
Apr 28th
A discussion on the holy grail of the Knowledge of Everything. Is this SkyNet (The Terminator, 1984)?
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 3 – Desktop Computers
Apr 28th
It’s Wednesday, the middle of the week, and also the middle of this series on analyzing virtualization technology by market adoption and value proposition. We’ve covered mainframe computing and compute servers, equipment the average person never sees, and even the IT professional usually administers remotely. We all use this type of computing, when we see [...]
VMforce: No Software + No Hardware?
Apr 28th
After hobbling thru the choppy live webcast yesterday and trying to piece together all the PR fluff, blogger commentary and random 140 character posts on Twitter I am still not sure how VMforce will be a monetize-able joint venture between VMware and SFDC. At one point in the conversation it was remarked that SFDC and [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 2 – Compute Servers
Apr 28th
In the first post of this series, we looked at the technology adoption life cycle, seven value propositions for market adoption of virtualization, five classes of computing and the maturity of virtualization in mainframe computers. Over the last several years, virtual machines have seen major adoption in the commodity compute server market. I think it [...]
facebook do we still trust thee?
Apr 28th
I use facebook. I was late to the party and started only a year or so ago. But my posts and any information that I place have gotten fewer over the last six months as I simply am not sure I trust facebook. I enjoy communicating with my friends outside of email, but as fb [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 1
Apr 27th
This is a reworking of some thoughts on virtualization technology originally posted on my personal blog. I’m breaking it into parts so that I can elaborate a little more on each aspect. The success of any technology depends on many factors and it is helpful to reference a technology by it’s adoption in the market. [...]
Getting Social in Canada: Jive Software
Apr 27th
Today I attended Jive Software’s Get Social tour stop in Toronto and left impressed not only with the company’s software and strategy, but with the quality of attendance at the event. The event featured a hour (and a bit) of keynotes including a look at how Canada’s RIM has used Jive’s SBS to deploy mybackberry.com. [...]
