Marty Wolfe

Well, ‘cloud computing’ is coming into its own and, as I make sure I stay current, here are links on which I keep track..

1. GLADINET – provides a desktop to several “cloud services”
2. Amazon.com – of course.. one of the first big ones..
   • Amazon Web Services ..the API front end to a lot of their cloud capabilities
   • Cloudfront .. provides a front end to content delivery from their S3 service
3. IBM Links..
   • IBM Launches Cloud Computing
   • IBM / Google Joint Work
4. Microsoft’s Azure
5. Yahoo Research’s Cloud Computing
6. Article – Top 50 Cloud Computing Companies (not sure how they are measuring, but a pretty good starting list)

Quite amazing evolution to the next level of operating systems.  Similar to what we saw in Minority Report.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/14/oblongs-g-speak-the-minority-report-os-brought-to-life/

http://www.oblong.com/

Some of the SOE’s core ideas are already familiar from the film Minority Report, whose characters performed forensic analysis using massive, gesturally driven displays. The similarity is no coincidence: one of Oblong’s founders served as science advisor to Minority Report and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT. Other foundational components are less directly visible but as crucially transformative. The g-speak platform braids development arcs begun in the early 1990s at MIT’s Media Laboratory, where Oblong’s principals produced radical user interface advances, distributed and networked language designs, and media manipulation technologies.

Not a big trek fan .. but I am interested.  Not sure how long this will be up..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQyjrRgE4c (longest version)

http://io9.com/5088091/first-glimpse-of-the-star-trek-trailer

You can see the glorious (and surprising) Star Trek trailer if you check out the new James Bond flick this weekend. Some people have already had this privilege, and they managed to upload the contents of their memories via a mobile device….

Wow.. no more batteries?

http://blogs.intel.com/research/2008/10/rattner_the_promise_of_wireles.php

A number of people have posted to the various blogs to question the safety of the underlying WREL technology. At this early stage we believe the technology is safe since it involves coupled magnetic fields rather than the more common and more dangerous electromagnetic fields. It is also important to realize that this is still a research project in a very early stage. Future refinements or enhancements will change the safety picture, but clearly Intel will not design or release a product that is unsafe.

Interesting article on former IBM microprocessor exec.

http://www.edibleapple.com/judge-orders-ibm-executive-to-stop-working-for-apple-immediately/

An interesting article on when not to use SOA.  Its a little dated, but the points are still the right ones.  If you are not going to experience changing business conditions (and/or the associated changes in IT) OR you already have a homogeneous IT environment, then you really have to re-think the SOA value.  However, in my experience, many organizations (more than 10 years old) have good number of different technologies in place, many of which are customized.. and these are the same organizations which have experienced change as well.

In any case.. here’s the link to the 2004 article.

http://www.zapthink.com/report.html?id=ZAPFLASH-02162004

Really interesting UNIX family tree… its quite large so you will have to enlarge it / zoom in.  Its in PDF so you can do a search for the particular kernel or source.

http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf

Thinking about a home PC.  I am really an advocate for the Mac over the PC .. primarily because the operating system is superior (being based on UNIX) and generally the look of the PC is more streamlined.  I’ve got experience all the way back to the Mac IIci (I had while in college).  Anyway.. here’s a neat comparison picture.

http://i34.tinypic.com/otlsg0.jpg

Interesting content on service management on System Z.  Let me know what you think.

Title: Improving IT Systems Manageability Through Improved and Enhanced Technologies

Link: System Z Presentation: Improving IT Systems Manageability Through Improved and Enhanced Technologies