The trigger for this blog was actually the recent SIENA, (Standards and Interoperability for Einfrastructure implemeNtation initiAtive), conference entitled Cloudscape III which focuses on the science computing community. It was an interesting set of presentations all available online showing the same leadership that in turn has produced the Internet, the World Wide Web and grid computing. Altogether the papers represent probably the clearest view of how clouds and their use will develop as the big …

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The advent of ubiquitous technology across all aspects of society today, led by what is popularly called consumer technology, has had, and continues to have, a huge impact on business activities. Externally new products, particularly new services supplied online, are creating new markets and important new revenue streams. As part of this there is a shift in the decision making process for purchases around social networks and social CRM. All of this new activity is …

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No – I refuse to write about the Apple iPad 2, not because I don’t like it, I do like it, but for two reasons, the first and most important being because there will be plenty of other posts about it. Second, I had a pretty disgusting experience outside an Apple Store in Brandon, Florida where they cynically manipulated as many people as possible, more than 600 I would guess, to be part of ‘the …

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Sometimes I find myself in a strange situation. I have seen a number of announcements and feel that they are important but I can’t quite tie them together in my mind as a coherent view. I feel like that right now looking at the powerful product announcements from major vendors that compel me to believe I am seeing an industry on the move towards a real transformation around delivering capabilities in a new way. Okay …

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