6) Cloud Computing
What Does the IT Department Really Do?
Jun 16th
The latest post from Turning Technology Invisible – What Does the IT Department Really Do? is available here. To my fellow BlogIdol bloggers… see you tonight!
ThunderClouds – Not all Clouds are Light and Fluffy
Jun 8th
The latest post from Turning Technology Invisible – ThunderClouds – Not all Clouds are Light and Fluffy is available here Hope to see you all at the party next week.
While we are waiting…
Jun 7th
There was a lot of news in the tech world yesterday with WWDC and E3 (Did anyone else find it ironic that Apple was announcing email enhancements and Microsoft was talking gaming?). While we wait for the big news here at BlogIdolCA, check out my latest post on my Turning Technology Invisible Blog – Beware! [...]
A Cloudy Day
May 22nd
Here in Toronto we had very nice early summer day yesterday, without rain and cloud-free (taking a bit of poetic licence here!). I was also cloud-free – stayed away from my computer for most of the day!! Today is another story. Its humid, dull, cloudy and seems to rain every time I head outside. It made [...]
How I Learned to Love the Cloud
May 20th
Cloud computing is awesome and powerful, but, for now, I’m content with simple cloud storage. My love affair with the cloud started when my phone decided to die; wiping out all my contacts, notes, to-do list, text messages, etc. At that point it hit me: Why do I need to recreate and resynch my data? Why [...]
Most Canadian Cloud compute cycles will be SMB
May 20th
In a previous post, I presented some rationale to support the projection that most cloud compute cycles will be HPC. The principle rationale was that although many HPC applications have requirements not suitable to the cloud, a fourth paradigm of big data will make cloud based HPC a dominant consumer of HPC cycles. In this post I’d [...]
Cloud Standards Customer Council
May 19th
For those who haven’t run into it yet, a new organization called the Cloud Standards Customer Council has recently been formed. Following is an extract from a press release from CSCC: Quote Cloud Standards Customer Council Membership Expanding Rapidly First Virtual Meeting to be Held May 18 Needham, MA, USA – April 27, 2011 – The [...]
How long till Cloud Computing and Tablets are in the Trough of Disillusionment?
May 19th
You may not be familiar with the diagram above. Welcome to Gartner’s 2o1o version of their Hype Cycle. For a number of years, Gartner has tracked 1,800 emerging technologies and plotted them along a curve representing the stage of maturity, as well as an estimate as to the number of years it may take [...]
Do Blogs Pass Away?
May 19th
Wow! I can hardly keep up with the recent set of BlogIdol postings. We must be the home stretch, and new horses are appearing on the track!! I’ve been wondering – is there a graveyard (or maybe a cloud) for blog posts that are “used up”?? Does a blog ever get sent to a bloggers [...]
If you were a Superhero…
May 18th
You’ve heard this question used as an icebreaker in meetings. It is a good question for IT types, since many of them not only know the answer, they probably have the outfit hanging in their closet at home. (Note to non IT readers – this is a joke. Really). It’s much better than the “If [...]
Most Cloud Compute cycles will be HPC
May 17th
A few months ago, I was chatting with a friend on the phone about HPC when he made the statement which is the title of this post. I jotted it down, and it’s been rattling around in my brain ever since. At first it seemed very odd, HPC is a neiche market, a small proportion [...]
What could possibly go wrong (with Cloud Computing)?
May 15th
We all know one… The eternal optimist who’s absolutely determined that everthing is fine, that you worry too much, that you should just unknot your knickers and get on with life. He constantly reminds you that things have a way of working out in the end, and that 80% of what we worry about never [...]
Dark Clouds over Canada
May 13th
I attended the Trend Micro seminar in Ottawa last week, where their CTO opened the talk on Cloud Computing security with the term ‘Dark Clouds’. Rafael Ruffolo covered that same seminar in Toronto the next day with this article, but he didn’t mention the dark clouds opening analogy (maybe he had a different opening for the [...]
Seven Deadly Sins for a Cloudy Day
May 12th
This picture comes from Beartoons As a proponent of the old OSI Seven Layer Model for network protocols, my ears/eyes always perk up when I see anything described in terms of 7 (layers, or sections, or topics). Hence my interest when I saw an article by Shane Schick in ComputerWolrd Canada (May 2011) referencing the [...]
BYOT has a soft(ware) side.
May 12th
Much of the chatter (including mine) about BYOT, or consumer provided technology seems to revolve around smart phones, tablets, and other devices. There is another dimension that has every bit as much impact on your tidy little IT world – software and web utilities. Let’s leave Social Media aside for the moment, and think about some [...]
