Emerging Trends
Early examples of innovations on top of Cloud platform emerge
By Tarry Singh at 19 June, 2009, 3:40 am
As I’ve said previously that innovative solutions are coming. They will capture the imagination of masses. So if we are building the cloud, we are simply laying the foundations for the future by pre-announcing the tombstones of some of the industry we are today seeing aggressive contraction and mad M&A activity.
So you are in the [...]
Report: Amazon to lead the post-recession boom with Cloud Computing
By Tarry Singh at 30 May, 2009, 4:30 am
In the report, which analyzes the forces commoditizing enterprise storage, authors George Gilbert and Juergen Urbanski write that leading storage vendors are planning their innovation around a 3-year time frame, expecting adoption of new storage technologies to coincide with emergence from the current recession. An accompanying survey supports this analysis, as a majority of respondents [...]
Read More >>Fool’s Cloud Computing report: Microsoft’s nightmare is real; Cloud bound to displace big players!
By Tarry Singh at 29 March, 2009, 2:15 am
On October 30, 2005, something incredible happened…
In Redmond, Washington, one of the world’s richest — and most powerful — businessmen sent an urgent memo to his top engineers and most-trusted managers.
It sounded the alarm that a very disruptive “wave” was about to wash over the entire world — forever changing the way we get information [...]
Microsoft’s biggest enemy: The Cloud!
By Tarry Singh at 27 February, 2009, 2:29 am
Microsoft watchers think nearly all profits come from Windows and Office. (This decade, we have had Office 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007). The rest of Microsoft’s software is peanuts.
When the umpteenth Windows version appears, Microsoft isn’t really pushing Windows. It’s selling computers. Nearly everyone gets the new operating system with the computer. No computer [...]
Rise of Scotland: Cloud Computing Hub to run on tidal power
By Tarry Singh at 1 February, 2009, 4:27 am
You can’t get any greener than this. Use water energy to run those CPU cycles inside the data center. I wonder how they are working on the conservation/preservation of consumed power and offsets of it such as warmth etc. Will they sequester and use the emitted energy for other local purposes such as empowering [start [...]
Read More >>Nearly 50% Open Source developers are working on the Cloud; Expect torrential RIA rain
By Tarry Singh at 21 January, 2009, 1:58 pm
My good friend, Kevin Lawton, who also writes for SeekingAlpha, send me a nudge on this article. My long due Cloud Computing article on controlled openness will soon be published. Here is an open statement that if you are not looking at the open source to help you out on the LCO path and Low [...]
Read More >>Sustainable Global Clouds channel launched on BrightTALK; first breakthrough Cloud FPI Model talk on 9th Feb 2009!
By Tarry Singh at 16 January, 2009, 5:34 pm
Since I had promised my friends [ you all] on some new and exciting stuff, I just wanted to keep my promise and want to really do cool stuff in the Cloud. The very idea [sic] of being able to discuss my mad mind with the rest of the world in the Cloud means that [...]
Read More >>Cloud Computing to be hot topic in 2009!
By Tarry Singh at 6 January, 2009, 12:13 am
The pitch is that customers can take advantage of Amazon’s expertise in running large data centers, that customers pay only for the compute and storage resources they use, and that Amazon can scale up or down easily, depending on the demand.
That’s the most basic level of cloud computing - infrastructure in the cloud. In this [...]
Talk in the Cloud: Unified Communications as a SaaS, a guide for Service Providers
By Tarry Singh at 24 December, 2008, 11:56 am
Great whitepaper as well there. Read it!
By the year 2012, the market volume for Software as a Service (SaaS) will have quadrupled, according to the latest white paper produced by The Radicati Group Inc. It is predicted that Value Added Services such as Unified Communications will not only generate additional revenues from residential and business [...]
Cloud Computing Market keeps swelling, $38 Bn already
By Tarry Singh at 24 December, 2008, 4:04 am
After lengthy internal testing, Pierce became convinced that Google can be trusted to provide critical software programs for Genentech as adeptly as it deciphers Internet search requests to sell ads.
“You don’t want to get caught clinging to the past,” said Pierce, Genentech’s chief information officer. “I feel like we are surfing in front of the [...]
