Cloud hype suggests real opportunities
Everywhere you look in the IT media, someone is hyping cloud computing. Even the mainstream media are now getting on the bandwagon with two seemingly opposite statements: 1) cloud computing will change our lives forever and 2) this is a gigantic bandwagon and is bound to be a massive failure. I think both statements are [...]
Continue Reading →The Bush administration is gone. Privacy defenders can rest easy, can’t they?
People who thought that government-sponsored attacks on privacy in the United States would disappear along with the Bush administration are starting to have second thoughts. It seems that the massive machinery of the American government bureaucracy is still grinding along and refusing to deal with past alleged privacy infringements. The most egregious of these infringements [...]
Continue Reading →Turning Digital Footprints into Personal Relationships
One of the great things that I love about working in technology is the never-ending opportunity to learn. Any time you get bored, there is another application, technology, or business opportunity that needs to be researched, analyzed and tried out. The best ones get to be adopted. I created my first personal web page in [...]
Continue Reading →Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
I love a good conspiracy theory just as much as any other person, but sometimes the line between reality and paranoia gets a little blurred. I recently came across a blog and a book that provide plenty of factual fodder for deep concern about the “protection” of data in the cloud. Chris Soghoian is a [...]
Continue Reading →Cloud computing standards will eventually arrive
People who claim that the lack of standards in cloud computing will hobble the business and prevent wide-scale deployment are essentially correct, but they are taking a short-term view. Like all new technology-based businesses, cloud computing standards will eventually emerge and those standards will drive the large-scale adoption of cloud computing. Most new technologies emerge [...]
Continue Reading →It’s not enough to “be” Canadian; you have to “live” Canadian
I have been talking with a lot of potential customers, investors and suppliers about Canadian Cloud Computing, and a common question I get is “What makes you so different from all the other Canadian companies that are going to offer cloud computing services?” My usual response is that while they will offer cloud computing services [...]
Continue Reading →Is cloud computing a new technology or a new business model? The answer is “Yes”.
I was at an industry meeting this summer where a leading academic admitted that the whole “cloud computing thing” was terribly confusing. Was it a really a new technology? Or was it a new business model for an existing technology? And why should industry players so energetically commit themselves to cloud computing when the entire [...]
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