Microsoft's Live Mesh has been recognised by the software vendor as a ground-breaking Cloud technology and so has been elevated in their strategy, part of which is developing an ecosystem around Live Mesh applications. One of the first deliverables to...

Microsoft's Live Mesh has been recognised by the software vendor as a ground-breaking Cloud technology and so has been elevated in their strategy, part of which is developing an ecosystem around Live Mesh applications. One of the first deliverables to...

FT has published a (non technical) interview with Lars Bak on his v8 work in Chrome. It highlights the importance of the browser as the main cloud client and within browsers, the importance of the Web 2.0 (JavaScript) runtime. An...

FT has published a (non technical) interview with Lars Bak on his v8 work in Chrome. It highlights the importance of the browser as the main cloud client and within browsers, the importance of the Web 2.0 (JavaScript) runtime. An...

Since the announcement of Cloud Computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, Google AppEngine and VMware vCloud, there has been a swell of interest in what they provide, how they compare to one another, and which should...

Since the announcement of Cloud Computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, Google AppEngine and VMware vCloud, there has been a swell of interest in what they provide, how they compare to one another, and which should...

Reviewing the value propositions of today's principal (at least in mindshare) Cloud Computing environments, Microsoft Azure/Pangea, IBM BlueCloud and Amazon EC2/S3, some of the strategies began to make sense to me. Amazon provides full control over a virtual environment such...

Reviewing the value propositions of today's principal (at least in mindshare) Cloud Computing environments, Microsoft Azure/Pangea, IBM BlueCloud and Amazon EC2/S3, some of the strategies began to make sense to me. Amazon provides full control over a virtual environment such...

McKinsey & Co recently released an analysis which purports that Cloud Computing does not make sense for the enterprise, based on assumptions regarding a) CC being represented only by off-premises hosting and thin client architectures, and b) the true TCO...

McKinsey & Co recently released an analysis which purports that Cloud Computing does not make sense for the enterprise, based on assumptions regarding a) CC being represented only by off-premises hosting and thin client architectures, and b) the true TCO...

Based on the McKinsey analysis and assumptions of the total cost of the data centre functions hired from Amazon Web Services would be $366/month per unit of output, compared with $150/month for the conventional data centre, here is a rough...

Based on the McKinsey analysis and assumptions of the total cost of the data centre functions hired from Amazon Web Services would be $366/month per unit of output, compared with $150/month for the conventional data centre, here is a rough...

Thank to Amanda Clark, a Barcamp Transparency is being organised to talk about social media ethics, Web 2.0 ethics, Open Government, cyber activism, direct democracy and all things related to transparency. http://barcamptransparency.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

Thank to Amanda Clark, a Barcamp Transparency is being organised to talk about social media ethics, Web 2.0 ethics, Open Government, cyber activism, direct democracy and all things related to transparency. http://barcamptransparency.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

AAmazon is beginning to move from being a pure IaaS play to supporting more abstractions - here are some details w/r/t the Hadoop service from the AWS blog: Today we are rolling out Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Using Elastic MapReduce, you...