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2009: The year of the ‘Enterprise Netbook’ (and other cloud clients)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.There’s exciting times ahead in 2009 for the enterprise – the maturity of cloud computing services like Google Apps and [Sales]Force.com is finally enabling them to reach to the
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Native Web Applications (NWA) vs Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.A rewrite of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) article (snapshot) is my latest contribution to Wikipedia following last year’s full rewrite of the Cloud Computing article (which is now
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Windows 7: Windows Vista Lite?
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.There’s no denying that Vista was a failure. A complete and utter disappointment. An unmitigated disaster. Microsoft have even essentially admitted it themselves, finally accepting what users, reviewers and
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HOWTO: Reverse engineer the iPhone protocols
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.A few months back (‘Apple iPhone 2.0: The real story behind MobileMe Push Mail and Jabber/XMPP Chat‘) I analysed how the iPhone interacted with the new MobileMe service with
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Virtual Google Search Appliance is here…
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’ve been quiet of late as I’ve been busy racking up the frequent flier miles last month or two, but I’m back (albeit busy) and will endeavour to work
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Taxonomy: The 6 layer Cloud Computing Stack
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Finally things have settled down enough that we can start making some sensible statements about the taxonomy of cloud computing. The Wikipedia cloud computing article(s) in particular are now
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Cloud Computing: Bill of Rights (aka Ten Commandments)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I am pleased to share with you (at nearly 4am) the results of consolidating efforts by James Urquhart on his blog and Rich Wellner and I offline, by way
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Privacy and cloud computing
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.There has been a good deal of talk of late on the important topic of security and privacy in relation to cloud computing. Indeed there are some legitimate concerns
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The Cloud Computing Doghouse: Nirvanix (aka Streamload aka MediaMax aka The Linkup)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Although Dell have been denied the ill-fated cloud computing trademark (that’s lowercase please. hold the ™) and moved on to more interesting things, they’re yet to concede defeat and
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Google Chrome: Cloud Operating Environment
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it. Google Chrome is a lot more than a next generation browser; it’s a prototype Cloud Operating Environment. Rather than blathering on to the blogosphere about the superficial features
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Cloud User Shell (cush) multi-call executable prototype released
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.After much discussion of what goes on below the water line (in the provider/enabler space), hopefully this prototype release will refocus energy and get the creative juices flowing above
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Cloud standards: not so fast…
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The rate of innovation amongst cloud computing providers is mind boggling – developments are building on each other (for example look at the ecosystem which has sprung up overnight