Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Cloud Computing
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In a Big Data presentation last year, MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson pointed out that throughout history new tools beget revolutions. Scientific revolutions are launched when new tools make possible all kinds of new measurements and observations. Big data is leading to such a measurement-driven revolution, brought about by the new digital tools all around us, including our…
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Last week I wrote about Cloud, Services and the Transformation of Production, based on Part I of Escape from the Commodity Trap: Will the Production Transformation Sustain Productivity, Growth and Jobs?, a paper by UC Berkeley professor John Zysman. Part II of the paper deals with the economic and policy implication of this ICT-based production…
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Ever since cloud computing first appeared in the IT world, people have struggled to define what it is and why it’s so important. “There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing is,” said the organizer of a 2008 cloud conference in his closing remarks. Just about everyone agreed that…
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In June of 2008 I participated in a conference on The Promise and Reality of Cloud Computing. “There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing is,” said the conference organizer in his closing remarks. There was general agreement that something big and profound was going on out there,…
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Every day brings new stories about the impact of digital technologies on every aspect of the world around us, including their transformative impact on companies in just about every industry. Some of the articles are about the creation of innovative new technologies and applications, while others are about the creative destruction such innovations leave in…
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From the early days of the industry, supercomputers have been pushing the boundaries of IT, identifying the key barriers to overcome and experimenting with technologies and architectures that are then incorporated into the overall IT market a few years later. While we generally focus on their computational capabilities as measured in FLOPS, – Floating-point Operations…
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Last month, the McKinsey Global Institute published Ten IT-enabled business trends for the decade ahead. As is generally the case with McKinsey, this is a well researched, well written report. There are few surprises. Any technology expected to have a transformative impact on business over the next decade has to at least be already in…
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Last week I wrote about the 2013 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium which I recently attended. The Symposium included a number of talks and panels on the key issues facing CIOs, as every business is essentially becoming a digital business. Big data and cloud were the most prominent transformative technologies discussed at the Symposium. My remarks…
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How quickly time passes. . . It’s already been ten years since the publication of Nicholas Carr’s controversial article IT Doesn’t Matter. The article appeared in the May 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review, where Carr was then an editor-at-large. CIO Magazine marked the 10th anniversary with an interview with Carr and a retrospective…
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Earlier this month IBM announced that all its cloud services and software will be based on open standards and an open cloud architecture. Standards and open source software are necessary to help cloud computing achieve the kind of market success enjoyed by the Web, e-mail and other widely used Internet-based services. IBM’s announcement could in…