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What comes after S+S? A truly unified client-cloud platform
Many consider Software + Services (S+S) to be Microsoft's way of keeping its PC-software money-making machine afloat while the cloud-computing waves come rushing in. But that view ignores the reality that it actually doe makes sense to run some applications and/or pieces of applications locally, and others off-premise in remote datacenters, according to Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie. Mundie keynoted the Technology Review Emerging Technology conference in Cambridge on September 25. Mundie presented a more technical and in-depth version of a talk I heard him give at the company's Financial Analyst Meeting in late July. In that talk, a transcript of which is available on Microsoft's Web site, Mundie showed off proof-of-concept demos of a variety of technologies ...
Yes folks, the cloud and parallel processing need killer apps
Microsoft's research chief Craig Mundie outlined his view of where computing is headed over the next decade or so and here is a big takeaway: The cloud and multiprocessor computing could use a few good killer applications. Mundie was speaking at the Technology Review Emerging Technology conference. Mary Jo Foley reports on Mundie's theme: Many consider Software + Services (S+S) to be Microsoft s way of keeping its PC-software money-making machine afloat while the cloud-computing waves come rushing in. But that view ignores the reality that it actually does make sense to run some applications and/or pieces of applications locally, and others off-premise in remote data centers. In other words, Microsoft thinks the cloud and client will merge and enable new applications. Sounds OK, ...
SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo Will Be Larger Than Any Recent Gartner Event
The future model for providing IT infrastructure and services in large organizations is what many today are calling "Cloud Computing" - a concept popularized by Amazon through its web services efforts. Merrill Lynch analysts for example reckon that by 2011 the volume of Cloud Computing market opportunity will amount to $160BN, including $95N in business and productivity apps (e-mail, office, CRM, etc.) and $65BN in online advertising.Cloud Computing has many interpreters just now - and many interpretations. One thing is certain: it is the most dynamic new metaphor to hit enterprise computing since the creation of the "Web" by Tim Berners-Lee. read more
IBM’s next slogan: Sexy’s out, boring’s in (CNET)
CNET - IBM hasn't been cool or sexy for years. The Charlie Chaplin era was cute and yes, Big Blue did legitimate the PC as a business tool. But that's ancient history. This company--never the hippest cat around--turned utterly super square under Lou Gerstner in the 1990s when IBM began to de-emphasize its personal computer business in favor of services, consulting, and infrastructure.
Is IT of the Future Firmly Rooted in the ‘Cloud’?
Yes, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "Cloud computing is the story of our lifetime. Eventually all devices will be on the network," he told an audience of software developers at a conference of IBM's business partners. Upstart Google and old-line IBM are forging an alliance to alloy their pioneering traditions in software and hardware in the cause of revolutionizing the acquisition and delivery of information technology. Gartner, which has studied and issued technical notes on the state of the concept, defines cloud computing as "a style of computing where massively scalable IT-enabled capabilities are delivered 'as a service' to external customers using Internet technologies." Basically, the hardware is pooled together and shared by all.Microsoft, widely viewed as an arch competitor to both Google and IBM, has also joined the cause with systems for bringing cloud computing to the desktop. Addressing a technical audience last June, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates outlined his vision of applying massive web-based computing power to enterprise software as a service: "We're taking everything we do at the server level, and saying that we will have a service that mirrors that exactly. . . For SQL, we'll have SQL Server Data Services, and so you can connect up, build the database. It will be hosted in our cloud with the big, big data center, and geo-distributed automatically. Today we have, in our data center, many hundreds of thousands of servers, and in the future we'll have many millions of those servers." This lets Microsoft become "very radical" in thinking about the kinds of software products it can offer, Gates adds.Already Google, IBM, and Amazon are doing just that. "The robust computing platform that has been built and refined over the years by Amazon is now available to anyone, anywhere, who has access to the Internet," is how...
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