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Category: Cloud Computing
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On July 22, I attended IBM’s announcement of its new generation of mainframes, the zEnterprise System in New York City. As you would expect with any product announcement, this new mainframe is significantly better and faster than its predecessors. The new z196 platform has better and faster processors, more processors per box and offers significantly…
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IT is undergoing its biggest changes since the advent of client/server computing in the 1980s. These changes are being driven by many factors, chief amongst them the emergence of a different model of computing, – cloud computing. We are entering the Age of the Cloud. For the IT industry, a new computing model is a…
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Supercomputing has been a major part of my education and career, from the late 1960s when I was doing atomic and molecular calculations as a physics doctorate student at the University of Chicago, to the early 1990s when I was general manager of IBM's SP family of parallel supercomputers. The performance advances of supercomputers in…
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A couple of weeks ago, I attended a very stimulating meeting in Madrid sponsored by the Bankinter Innovation Foundation. The Foundation was started in 2003 by Bankinter, – one of the largest commercial banks in Spain, – in order to foster entrepreneurial innovation in the country. One of the the Bankinter Foundation’s main initiatives is…
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I spent the first week of September in Chile and Argentina. Three yeas have elapsed since I last visited Santiago, and I have not been to Buenos Aires for almost four years. It was very good to be back in these two very nice cities. I love to travel in Spanish speaking countries, – I…
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When I started to seriously think about Cloud Computing a couple of years ago, the metaphor that first came to mind was that the IT industry was now entering its Cambrian age. The Cambrian geological period marked a profound change in life on Earth. Before it, most organisms were very simple, composed of individual cells,…
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Last week I participated in the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The CIO Symposium is an annual one-day conference on the MIT campus, now in its sixth year, “where CIOs and other senior business executives from around the world gather to explore how leading-edge academic research and innovative technologies can help address the challenges faced in…
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The buzz and excitement around cloud computing has been steadily building over the last year. There is general agreement that something big and profound is going on out there, although we may not be totally sure what it is yet. "There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing…
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In the late 18th century, the Industrial Revolution started the transition from a manual-labor based economy towards an economy based on using technologies, tools and machines to significantly improve the manufacturing of physical goods. Over the next two hundred years we have seen the industrial sector of the economy achieve major improvements in the productivity…
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The October 25 issue of The Economist includes a special report on cloud computing – seven articles plus an introduction. It is an in-depth look at this new model of computing, its implications, its value promise to companies and societies, as well as the pitfalls against which we have to guard. In the lead article,…