Why is there so little innovation in cloud hardware?
With the explosion of data and the need to make sense out of it all on a smart phone is creating an interesting opportunity. Mobile devices need high performance at low power, and Apple seems to be the only one that has figured out that having your own processor team and IP is actually a key advantage. And the telcos will need Petascale data centers to manage content, knowledge management, and operational intelligence and the performance per Watt of general purpose CPUs from IBM, Intel, and AMD are at least two order of magnitude away from what is possible. So why is there so little innovation in cloud hardware?
Messaging and Unified Communications in the Cloud Today
There’s a lot of discussion about unified messaging and communications in the cloud these days, but there seems to be more talk than action. Beyond basic messaging services from Google and Microsoft, there are very few robust unified messaging and unified communications offerings for the enterprise that are delivered as a true multi-tenant service in the cloud.
SpotCloud: It’s a Market, Not a Cloud
White hat hacker Mafiaboy casts doubt on cloud computing security
Michael Calce, the reformed hacker from Montreal who will forever be known as Mafiaboy, told a group of IT professionals Tuesday that he has serious concerns about the inherent vulnerabilities in the latest evolution of information technology: cloud computing.
Public Cloud Not Widely Used — Yet
The cloud is a topic that is top of mind for many in enterprise IT, but how widely is it actually being deployed now? Networking vendor Cisco this week issued a pair of separate studies looking at cloud and virtualization deployments which may shed some light.
Red Hat Acquires Makara in Cloud Dev Tools Play
Software-as-a-service content ‘can be viewed on iPads’
An increasing number of business users are employing iPads to view content from software-as-a-service products.
This is according to Windows IT Pro commentator Jeff James, who explained while the majority of the tablet PCs have been sold to consumers, companies are increasingly seeing the potential of the Apple devices.
He said both software-as-a-service and cloud computing applications can be accessed from the iPad, making it an important product for many employees.
A Greener Cloud for All IT
It’s taken as an article of faith that cloud computing will reduce greenhouse emissions across the IT industry. However, there has been very little analysis with regard to shifting the environmental burden from the enterprise to a dedicated cloud industry.
Seven Social Transformations Unleashed by Mobile Devices
This Big Picture essay wraps up our month-long special report on the Mobile Enterprise. Starting tomorrow, the entire report will be available only as a premium publication (in PDF format) for those who pay to receive it.
Today’s mobile device is the new personal computer. The average smart phone is as powerful as a high-end Mac or PC of less than a decade ago. And as billions of people worldwide rely on these ultra-compact machines for more and more tasks, the mobile device might qualify as humankind’s primary tool.