A very informative interview – Charlie asked interesting questions and Marc has equally insightful answers & discussions. Video and full text at http://seekingalpha.com/article/121915-marc-andreessen-on-charlie-rose-internet-and-new-media-companies For the attention challenged my bullet notes: Future of news papers Two words – kill it ! Stop Printing newspapers ! Fundamental structural change happening in the newspaper business. It is happening [...]
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A Berkeley View Of Cloud Computing : An Analysis – the good, the bad and the ugly
Posted: February 14, 2009 in Blogroll, Cloud Computing, Web 2.0I read thru the technical report from UC Berkeley, Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing with interest. My analysis: <summary> As an undergrad work on cloud computing, the paper gets an A+. But as a position paper from eminent academics, I can only give a C-. Granted it correctly identifies many of [...]
Cloud Standards – Putting the cart before the horse ?
Posted: January 27, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Web 2.0I have been following some of the chatter in the “Cloud Standards” space. Looks to me, we have more talk about standardization work than actual cloud work. May be I am moving in the wrong circles ;o) Anyway the reason for the blog is Bob Sutor’s notes from a Cloud Standards gathering . To be [...]
Book Review – Programming Erlang, Software for a Concurrent World By Joe Armstrong
Posted: January 20, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Web 2.0Note: This is the blog version of my review slated to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal Of Functional Programming Volume 19, Issue 2, March 2009 Context A funny thing happened on the microprocessors’ race to faster and faster clock speeds; somewhere along the way, the speeds and feeds hit a brick [...]
Think Way Outside the box – Microsoft’s Azure into cloud computing
Posted: October 27, 2008 in Cloud Computing, Web 2.0Finally Microsoft has entered into the cloud business formally with Windows Azure. These are my notes from MS PDC 2008. Executive summary: Windows Azure is not an OS but an offering. It consists of : A hosting environment to deploy your services (you define the rules & provide your code, the platform will take care [...]
Cloud Computing, Grids and Paczkis – Part Deux
Posted: September 23, 2008 in Cloud Computing, Web 2.0<epilogue – the end as the beginning or conclusions first> Both the papers are well written and I thank the authors for the details as well as the e-mails. It is worth the cloud community’s time to deliberate and debate the concepts. IMHO, Grids and Clouds are conceptually distinct beasts; but if one squints long [...]
Sam, in his thoughtful blog, says “The Cloud is what The Grid could have been”. Made me think a little bit – actually a lot. IMHO, “Cloud is the next evolution of virtualization” – let me iterate … Grid is about distributed processing – either task parallelism or data parallelism – i.e. break a problem [...]
Book Review : The Big Switch – Rewiring the world from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr
Posted: July 26, 2008 in Book Reviews, Cloud Computing, Web 2.0Prologue: There is no doubt that the computing infrastructure is going thru another phase – Cloud computing has captured the imagination and mindset of the IT industry [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/technology/25proto.html]. Some even compare this movement as the fourth wave – dial-up, Client Server, browser-based and now Cloud. While the concepts were around in different forms, the industry [...]
