VMworld: Private Cloud & Random Musings
I went to catch up with my friends coming from around the world to VMworld 2010 at San Francisco and ended up meeting some upcoming technology players as well. In the course of my discussions, I recognized the existence of a lot more energy in the cloud ecosystem – big and small, private and public [...]
What Apple TV Should Have Been
I read with interest Don MacAskill’s post about the disappointment in Apple TV over at SmugMug. He listed a bunch of limitations that boiled down to their being no open apps capability. It’s all closed: - The only photo share is Flickr. No Facebook or SmugMug photos and videos. - You get ABC and Fox [...]
Multi-tenancy: why you should care
SaaS buyers shouldn’t settle for the limited horizons of single-tenancy. Multi-tenancy is the ideal architecture to make the most of the cloud environment, because it continually evolves to keep pace with the collective demands of its tenants.
iPad to Get Camera?
Wow. An iPad with a camera would make a sweet augmented reality device. Hold that bad boy up and pan it around so you can really see the AR display on a big screen. Apparently Jobs slipped today and may have inadvertently preannounced this feature. Lately, I’ve been looking at various jobs and asking myself, [...]
Digital Lumens intelligent LEDs cut Maines energy for lighting by 87%
Photo of before and after installation of Digital Lumens lighting system in Maines Paper & Food Service courtesy of Digital Lumens. Digital Lumens reduced the cost of lighting for their first customer by 87%. Digital Lumens specialise in high-bay lighting for warehouses, cold storage facilities, and manufacturing plants. This is a mostly invisible but very [...]
Crowdsourcing Our New Logo Design. Time to Vote.
We’re putting our money where our (digital) mouth is: having talked so much about crowdsourcing, we took 99designs for a test drive, hoping to see a new CloudAve logo emerge. I was not too impressed with the initial submissions, but just as I suspected, 99design works pretty much like eBay does: the better contestants ignore [...]
I’m Back, with a Start: Are You Ready for a 9 Day Sustainability Summit at the Prince of Wales’ Gaff?
So I am back from my holiday in Cornwall – and very nice it was too. But now the Back To School season is kicking in. That means travel, travel and more travel in the runup to Christmas, interspersed with a metric crapload of client consulting. When it comes to item 1 on my agenda [...]
OpenPlug – Another Alcatel-Lucent Buy
Aclatel-Lucent is buying OpenPlug, which is a development suite that aims to make multi-platform development in the mobile space easier.
Finding a needle in 20 million haystacks: CERN’s Computing Grid creates a vision for Cloud Business Services
In order to understand the business potential of Cloud-esque environments to drive innovation, you could do a lot worse than have a look at the scientists who’ve been using their own version of Cloud for years: Grid Computing. When you get into area…
