Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Steve
Two news items caught my attention in the news recently: RadioShack selling a $99 Netbook PC (which ultimately costs over $1,400 when you factor in the 2-year AT&T data contract), and Microsoft recently publishing a patent for a pay-as-you-go home PC.
The price of home computers has dropped significantly. It’s now cheaper than ever to [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Steve
A few months back, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison went on an impromptu rant in front of Wall Street Journal reporters talking about Cloud Computing. His basic theme was that Cloud Computing is just a buzzword for everything that people have already been doing for the last decade or so with the Internet. Some people [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Steve
Hot on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that SGI received a Nasdaq delisting notice, SGI has announced significant changes to its business plan, including the layoff of roughly 15% of its workforce (225 employees), including some executives and senior level positions.
According to the new announcement, SGI will focus its efforts around demands [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Steve
In a December 9th “chalk talk” session with Sun CTO Lew Tucker and Senior VP David Douglas, Sun announced plans to shutter its current Network.com service and introduce a new Cloud Computing business unit.
Included in their plans for the new division: the ability to purchase compute time on Sun’s server cloud with a credit [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Steve
As more software vendors provide their services on the Cloud, and more people consider SaaS offerings, it’s worth noting that SaaS vendors will soon face the same kinds of problems that corporate IT has faced day-to-day for many years now.
As a person who has worked in IT for many years, these crude drawings represent [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Steve
There was a great article in the Economist that I caught by way of InformationWeek that largely reinforced the ideas that I put forward earlier in my posts about the switch from IT CapEx to IT OpEx and the rise of SaaS and Cloud Computing, primarily pointing out that IT data center environments today [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Steve
SugarCRM introduced a new “Cloud Connectors” feature with release of its SurgarCRM 5.2 product, announced on Monday this week. The new Cloud Connectors feature allows SugarCRM to fetch data from third-party sources around the web. One of the first demonstrations of this was integration with LinkedIn, allowing users to launch a window directly from [...]
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