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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Is the cloud bursting?
With IBM, Amazon and Microsoft fighting for our cloud computing attention, we might forget to think about useful scenarios for all this fancy airy stuff. We all know the classical e-commerce example with its season-bound resource spikes and the occasional raw processing/render power we need, but this week I stumbled upon something new: cloud bursting. Before I get into that, let’s first take a little step back. A recent blog post by James Urquhart (now …
JavaFX: when will the cat jump?
In May 2007, at the JavaOne conference, Sun announced JavaFX: a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications for desktop, mobile, TV and other platforms (wikipedia definition). All fitting nicely in Suns credo: Write once, run everywhere. For new RIA technologies, I am used to seeing lots of sexy demos that show off the power and slickness of this new thing (usually a rich e-mail client, a pet shop demo and a component explorer). …
Tech predictions 2009: Information filtering and behavioral targeting are the new gold
Currently there is so much information that it is hard to filter it correctly to come the information you need (Well it is not hard to filter it, it is hard to find a filter that fits your needs). Not only will you have this issue in your RSSreader or your inbox, you’ll also experience it when visiting websites.
Tech Predictions for 2009: The Year Standards Bodies wake up to Clouds
I’ve seen a lot of talk recently, including on this blog, about clouds moving from the person to the enterprise. While all agree it’s a good idea, there are many road blocks to overcome. Security always gets a mention (see my previous blog entry). But there is a much bigger, and slower, issue: standards bodies. There are some very important standards that are heavily impacted by cloud computing: ITIL (ISO20000) for service management – should …
The 2008 “it” list
While all our colleagues (including us) are doing bold predictions on what will be hot or not in 2009, let’s take a quick recap of what was hot in 2008. In a true Web 2.0 collaboration fashion we (@mnankman, @rickmans and @leeprovoost) discussed through Twitter the candidates and collaboratively wrote this blog piece using Google Docs. True, our personal top threes might be biased since we are looking at the domains that WE are interested …
Tech predictions 2009: Let’s socialise!”
2009 will be the year when use of social networking tools within companies will be the talk of the town. Yes, it has been around for a while but to be honest, nothing much has really happened apart from that Serena Software uses Facebook internally. So when our global heads of Capgemini Consulting visited Sweden office last week and started talking about the power of social networking only five minutes into the talk I felt …
Tech Predictions 2009: Music-As-A-Service (…at last)
The title says it all, and I believe that 2009 will be the year in which we start to see some real music-as-a-service propositions come to life. Although some existing online music services may claim to be already providing “music as a service”, but such services are often limited in one way or another. To my mind, a real music-as-a-service proposition would be able to supply: any music, any time and on any device, perhaps in a model akin to utilities e.g. water / gas / electricity.
Tech predictions 2009: “Trust” is the new version of “Control”
The matter of control on solutions was something that was probably vital some years ago, however in the last few years it is not control that is important, it is trust that matters.
Tech Predictions 2009: Webkit surpasses Flash Player penetration
As I wrote before in my post titled “Write once, REALLY run Everywhere“, I believe WebKit to possibly be the most installed piece of open source software today. And if it isn’t today, it will be next year, mark my words. However, that it is only a part of the prediction I want to make in this post. I am taking this one provoking step further: I predict that WebKit will even surpass the device …
Help – there’s an architect in the boardroom!
Not trying to be facetious, but apparently this is a typical reaction by most board members when confronted with certain members of this species. The title of Enterprise Architect (EA) may conjure up a vision of uber-geekdom / rarefied techno-speak, which can only get in the way of communicating with regular business folk who have become ever more dependent on technology to run their businesses efficiently. It has therefore become imperative to break down these barriers, and perception, at the highest levels, and the good people at Capgemini’s University have designed just such a course to address this particular issue.
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