Globalization

Cloud Computing: How many servers does the world need?

I have been speaking about the trends of stuff such as Fortress and Walling-in for quite a while now. This article at FT reminded me that we should not forget that the following  will be done to us (no matter whether you like it or not):

We are at the brink of industrialization: Service provider, Managed [...]

Global Economy: HP to cut employees’ salary to ride out the recession

“In an environment like this, there’s no margin for error and no tolerance for inaction,” Hurd wrote yesterday in a memo to employees that was obtained by Bloomberg News. “My goal is to keep the muscle of this organization intact, but we do have to do something because the numbers just don’t add up.”
Hewlett-Packard’s pay [...]

Nationalization inevitable as U.S banks get $2 Trillion in help! (and maybe more later)

This is going to be pretty tough for the free and greedy economy. The times for U.S are worrisome and it reminds me of this book, which I am NOT reading. More importantly is that we are coming pretty close to my another prediction about the prosperity cycles of nations in one of my previous [...]

Cloud OS for the Innovation Economy: How browser war is being fought

Looking at the trend report, that details out the nearly 8% loss of IE within 11 months says one thing and one thing only. This time its really looking different!
Think about it for a couple of seconds
LCO NetBooks: India’s 10$ laptop with Chrome

If this was to become a reality, what would the figures be by [...]

Global Warming could choke our oceans for 100,000 years!

I have covered some alarming data in the past on my blog. Once in a while a “true reminder” like this always helps. I have spoken about Global Warming and CO2 emissions [one video is there on the blog to your right] on many occasions, both nationally and internationally. We really have to realize that [...]

Financial Markets: UK is in a state of depression; pound to suffer worse than dollar

This certainly turns the tables as UK resisted to all economic and the E.U embrace, mistakes such as a huge lendings; stubborn attitude against the EU; not much of financial systems really alive and kicking, this all is really pushing UK to the be relegated as a lost country, as the capital markets move gradually [...]

Satyam scam: Can Indian firms be trusted?

How much did it scare you when you found out that there was something going on with this firm and finally the truth came out? Were you shell shocked? Did you wonder how it all came to? Well I can guarantee you one thing, this has happened before and will keep happening. My last subscription of National Geographic tried to frame Herod as the great, creative, paranoid, mad, psychotic genius and not just the baby killer as he is spoken of in the Church. But still the fact remains the we are experiencing something very similar and that has happened in the past. It has happened all the time and it will continue to happen. There is a very thin line between knowing good from bad. Still these men choose bad.

Alibaba to open Cloud Computing Center in Nanjing!

Alibaba.com, China’s leading B2B e-commerce portal, announced its software subsidiary Alisoft has inked the strategic cooperation framework agreement with Nanjing municipal government to build the country’s first “e-commerce cloud computing center” in the city, sources reported.
Pursuant to the agreement, Alisoft plans to start the construction as early as the beginning of 2009, and the initial [...]

Cloud Computing Market keeps swelling, $38 Bn already

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 [...]

Attend my Cloud Computing webcast at BrightTALK

Title: “Cloud Computing: The New New Deal”
When: 29th January, 2009
Topics I’ll cover will be:

What is Cloud Computing and who is it for?
Financial markets and how we can save the IT industry from a similar collapse
Quick use cases: Amazon realtime example, Broadcast industry, some graphical analysis on SaaS vs Shelfware providers
My very own “2 & 1/2 [...]