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 Send to email | Miasma computing in General |  By Rough Ty
el 27-May-2008 | The metaphor of "the cloud" is a seductive one, but it's also dangerous. It not only suggests that our new utility-computing system is detached from the physical (and political) realities of our planet, but it also lends to that system an empyrean glow. The metaphor sustains and extends the old idealistic belief in "cyberspace" as a separate, more perfect realm in which the boundaries and constraints of the real world are erased. Bill Thompson raises...
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| Miasma computing | | The metaphor of "the cloud" is a seductive one, but it's also dangerous. It not only suggests that our new utility-computing system is detached from the physical (and political) realities of our planet, but it also lends to that system an empyrean glow. The metaphor sustains and extends the old idealistic belief in "cyberspace" as a separate, more perfect realm in which the boundaries and constrai [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-May-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Alan Turing, cloud computing and IT's future | | The business computing site Internet.com asked me to write an essay speculating on what the corporate IT landscape may look like ten years from now. The result, "IT in 2018: from Turing's machine to the computing cloud," is available now as a free pdf download - though registration is required. Here's how the essay begins: In 1936, as the clouds of war gathered once again over Europe, a 24-year-ol [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Feb-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Devices for the deviceless | | There are an estimated half of a billion people in the world who surf the Net every day yet don't own a computer. They depend on the public PCs available in cybercafes, which in many cities and countries remain the centers of personal computing. Cloud computing is ideally suited to these so-called cybernomads, as it can provide them with, in essence, a computer to call their own - a virtual deskto [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Feb-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| The new economics of computing | | Are we missing the point about cloud computing? That question has been rattling around in my mind for the last few days, as the chatter about the role of the cloud in business IT has intensified. The discussion to date has largely had a retrospective cast, focusing on the costs and benefits of shifting existing IT functions and operations from in-house data centers into the cloud. How can the clou [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Nov-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| May 1, 1964: First Basic Program Runs | | 1964: In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors at Dartmouth College run the first program in their new language, Basic.
Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz had been trying to make computing more accessible to their undergraduate students. One problem was that available computing languages like Fortran and Algol were so [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-May-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Cloud computing hysteria paralyzed by bolt of reality | | Compliance? No, we do Cmplynz
Interop 2008 We’ve seen more than enough folks all atwitter and wetting their shorts over cloud computing at Interop 2008 Las Vegas. So it was a bit of a surprise to catch a panel at the show with Google and Amazon reps discussing what keeps businesses from embracing the technology.
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| The Cloud 20 | | The paperback edition of The Big Switch is making its way into bookstores and, for early adopters, is available now from Amazon.com and BN.com. The paperback includes a new section, "The Cloud 20," in which I profile 20 leading cloud computing businesses. The companies, as I write in the introduction to the section, "together illustrate the impressive breadth of the cloud computing industry, even [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Jan-2009 by Rough Ty in General
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We continue to believe that the transition to "cloud computing" is a disruptive trend that will increasingly put legacy PC- and enterprise businesses like Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) [..] 
Will Microsoft's (MSFT) new cloud-computing framework, Mesh, prevent the PC software titan from getting disrupted by the move toward cloud computing? Will Mesh allow Microsoft to kill Google [..] 
