IT, and especially IT vendors, have a curious relationship with language. We tend to hijack existing words and terms and then adapt their meaning for our own selfish needs. The meaning of these adopted words usually starts pretty fluidly and ...
With practically unlimited data storage possibilities and access from anywhere you have an Internet connection, does it really matter how cloud memory works? Actually, yes, it does matter. While nobody wants to be forced to dive into the gory detail ...
With ‘all-you-can-eat’ compute power at low-low prices, it’s tempting to try to move applications wholesale from on-premises systems to cloud servers. You’ll never run out of processing capacity; system maintenance and upgrades become somebody ...
Here’s a new advantage to add to the already impressive list for cloud computing. Yes, you still get scalability, flexibility, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness. The bonus is equality. While this characteristic might not leap out at an ...
How we mechanize and automate! Ever since the Industrial Revolution and the first machine-driven textile production, we’ve been looking for ways to save labor in all the things we do. Add Adam Smith’s division of labor and celebrated pin factory ...
Technologies may have several claims to fame. Exceptional size is often one of them: the biggest airplane ever built, the smallest robot, and so on. Cloud infrastructures can compete in both categories. Scalability is often touted as a key advantage ...
With all that is taking place within the cloud computing industry, it can be very difficult for cloud services and providers to not only capture market share but engage properly with their target audience. Implementing and executing a well-planned ...
As if storing mountains of data, providing oodles of processing power, and cutting costs were not enough, the cloud will now also solve your problems for you. There are still limits, of course, but the idea is to offer ‘Brain as a Service’ using the ...
Which part of the cloud service solution lags all the rest in terms of performance increases? Yes, I’m looking at you, Networking. Where computer processing power and storage capacity increases by a factor of ten, networking performance only goes up ...
In today’s enlightened business world, competition is considered to be good. When monopolies are broken and suppliers are obliged to provide better value for money, customers see the benefit. Suppliers themselves may even do better thanks to ...
