There was a time when every household, town, farm or village had its own water well. Today, shared public utilities give us access to clean water by simply turning on the tap; cloud computing works in a similar fashion. Just like water from the tap in your kitchen, cloud computing services can be turned on […]
Good post by Om Malik “You can’t buy new DNA” http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/corporate-dna/ Why it is hard to change big companies & yourself “Gregory House, a cranky, genius doctor who solves medical and diagnostic mysteries, remarked, “Almost dying doesn’t change anything. Dying changes everything.” That line made me realize how difficult it is for us to change. […]
The following is posted at the NIST Tech Beat Website The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued two new draft documents on cloud computing for public comment, including the first set of guidelines for managing security and privacy issues in cloud computing. The agency also has set up a new NIST Cloud […]
The film features one hundred people, who each present the IBM achievement recorded in the year they were born. The film chronology flows from the oldest person to the youngest, offering a whirlwind history of the company and culminating with its prospects for the future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4
By SecurityWeek News on Jan 21, 2011 http://www.securityweek.com/cios-plan-adopt-cloud-services-faster-expected-cloud-marked-top-priority-2011 A worldwide CIO survey of 2,014 CIOs representing over $160 billion in corporate and public-sector IT spending across 50 countries and 38 industries, conducted by Gartner, revealed that CIOs’ IT budget projections for 2011 are globally flat, with a weighted average budget increase of 1 percent. While […]