Planetary-scale computing
If you really want to know how to build a cloud, look at how Google architects its data center infrastructure to produce economies of scale at a global level.
Obama’s in-sourcing initiative: does it have the teeth to rescue the US IT industry?
As per usual, election year brings up the age-old argument about how to combat the “threat” of outsourcing. Isn’t now the time, in an election year, to stop the rhetoric and actually make commitments to growing local industries that have a direct impact?
The White House Talks Supply Chain: When Supply Risk Becomes a National Security Issue (Part 1)
For someone who has been researching and covering supply chain risk for a decade, it’s extremely refreshing to see what once were esoteric topics become mainstream, albeit due to avoidable — and unavoidable, in certain cases — traged…
Citizen gateway gov.uk runs on Amazon
One notable nugget buried deep inside Alex Howard’s O’Reilly Radar write-up of the UK’s new online government platform is that it runs on Amazon EC2. Not hosted on some private government cloud but on the same public AWS servers that everyone else has access to. That’s a vote of confidence in the robustness of public [...]
