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Monthly Archives: August 2010
The ‘Internet of Things’ meets the ‘Web of Services’!
You will remember how anything and everything was going to be connected and reporting back to a user, even if it was just a low level on/off alarm to say the temperature was rising above a preset threshold in an area of a cold store? To do this we require low cost and low power networking, and the well proven and accepted Bluetooth Special Interest Group, or SIG, brought this a step further forward on …
A straightforward approach to cloud security
Every now and then I see a document that really answers a particular question in a way that makes simple straightforward sense. I can’t begin to count how much I have read on cloud security, and how few real answers I have seen. A really great spoof on this that describes exactly how most of us feel is the Novell inspired; ‘Are you trying to pin a tail on a cloud security donkey?’ It does …
OpenStack – is it a cloud play or a web play?
When NASA decided to join forces with RackSpace to announce the start of an open source cloud project under the name of OpenStack it was a natural headline grabber. Anything with the tags ‘Clouds’ and ‘Open Source’ gets attention as working CIOs and IT departments grapple with what the technology industry tells them is their future. Add NASA into it and you have the hope that these guys really know what they are doing – …
Black Turkey
Want to have something nice to read on the iPad this summer? Download Nassim Taleb’s very instructive The Black Swan. Taleb describes the phenomenon of the black swan as a metaphor for unpredictability. You see, until the end of the 17th century the entire inhabited western world presumed that there were only white swans. This insight was based on observation and a bit of extrapolation: as far as the eye could see, only white swans …
How not to ‘Shred the Edge’; well not as much anyway!
This post follows on from my last one which discussed the arrival of new tools that enable the decentralisation of IT, or that enable shadow IT, to be carried out in an effective manner with some degree of enterprise control, but also introduced the term ‘Shredding the Edge’. I have used this term to refer to the loss of integrity in process and data as part of the now accepted shift to decentralisation of the …
