I think you're missing something in the cloud model. "Running on the Cloud" is a euphemism for a modified delivery model. Cloud moves the capacity planning role out of the delivery track. Capacity planning activity still takes place in all cloud models but it is based on overall usage and forecast rather than being evaluated at time of request. No one is suggesting we don't need the physical hardware just that it shouldn't be the end-users concern when they request a new compute resource.
Go out and find a whitepaper on this stuff that isn't targeted at CEO's. There are some good ones. I'd include links but I work for a vendor and I don't want you to get our slant.
Ignore the buzzwords. Cloud computing is a simple concept. Cloud is web driven model for requesting compute resources that uses automation and virtualization to accomplish the task in a shortened time frame compared to traditional methods. There is no "The Cloud". In a public cloud model you would request these resources and then they would be made available on the public internet or possibly via a pre-defined vpn. You would connect to these machines in the same way that you would connect to any other servers that you have in traditional hosted environments.
There are other models, Private Cloud just uses the same concepts that public cloud uses and applies them to your existing IT infrastructure. Your users get easy access to compute resources and because they are inside your network connecting to them is no different from connecting to any other system you maintain.
Corporations like cloud because it reduces their time to delivery and their overall cost of building a new server. IT people should like it because it enforces standardization, and increases reliability due to the reduced risk of human error. Also IT people should like it because most of what it does is pretty boring anyway and we've all most likely scripted it. Cloud just re-uses those scripts and executes them for us.
I think we all need to really listen to the basic message of this article though. Things are going to change, automation and virtualization will become more and more common within the datacenter. Your point on security is a good one but public isn't the only cloud delivery model. A private cloud solution leaves the internal security organization in control. It has higher upfront costs than public cloud but has some advantages.
I think you're right that IT people make or break a solution and the same is true of cloud models. The need for IT people to design, build and repair the automation will stay in the new model. I'm not sure if this is "blue collar" IT or not (sort of a dumb concept). I wish cloud wasn't pushed as a new concept because in reality it's a convergence of a number of concepts that have been in the industry for some time. I think that's what makes it a little more of a reality than the traditional new buzzwords. Cloud Computing is taking the standardization efforts of SOA and ITIL and adding automation and virtualization. Since most of us now have IAAS and PAAS documented it makes it easier for Cloud to catch on.
There will be a shift in roles. People that today have most of their job defined by Server Build, Application installation, or OS installation are in danger. They need to either script themselves out of a job, thereby becoming "Automation Experts" or someone will likely do it for them. Current timelines within organizations for server build of 1-2 weeks is going to become a pressing issue as we exit this recession and try to ramp up new projects. Cloud is available at the right time to address those concerns and is based in concepts that people have already been using for a couple of years. It's possible that the word Cloud will go away but the concepts that it brings are going to stick around for a long time, and be a game changer.
Quick everyone come join us in Arizona. No Earthquakes, No Tornadoes, No hurricanes. The only natural disaster we have is that it gets really, really hot in the summer. And once in a while it rains and everyone panics.
I just had a new house built and they ran cat 6 to all the phone jacks. I thought it was neat and if I ever cancel vonage I can use it as a lan. Then I thought about the fact that wireless is easier and doesn't require a network cable.
Computers are never a solution to lack of knowledge although they can help us manage larger datasets in an efficient way. What it comes down to is the current state of economic theory is not sufficient to model macroeconomics. Some day these theoretical models may improve in which case computers are a great tool for managing what will be a large and complex dataset. To in any way suggest that the current macroeconomic models are anything other than predictive is a lie. So basically it's a choice of where to spend your research money and we should be spending on Economics if we want the model to improve not Comp Sci. Although I think there is plenty of Comp Sci work left to be done, which can be a benefit to multiple disciplines rather than an individual one.
There is a tipping point to the cement argument which is why you don't see it in truly cold locations like Canada. Cement roads have a longer lifespan than asphalt and it works out to be cheaper in some locations. In other locations,due frost, the ground moves too much to see the return on investment. In Canada where there is heavy frost every winter a cement road would still be required to be repaired every year but at a much greater cost due to the cracks caused by frost. This is why you see more cement roads in the southern states and less in the northern. Asphalt's lower cost to install and repair makes it a better fit in colder areas. Neither is a perfect solution but each serves it's purpose in it's place. The perfect solution, as always, is to give us our flying cars.
While I completely agree on ethanol disappearing once subsidies are removed, I can't agree that the increasing cost of wheat is related to ethanol production. In fact it's the rising cost of oil for transportation that is being embedded into the cost of wheat products that is raising their price.
There was a fairly good wired article on what they are trying to accomplish and it has less to do with ranking and more to do with recommending movies for individuals.
The algorithm wants to analyze your habits and then recommend the best movie for you. The interest to netflix is if you can get more people interested in movies that they haven't seen then they will rent more movies.
We've been using this as a way to encrypt our p2p transactions for years. Unfortunately Bell is a Canadian company and their systems support Eh!2 encryption.
The RCMP won't polite you to death they'll tazer you just like everyone else.
Well to be perfectly honest if they had the option they probably would build their own bridge. If there needed to be a bridge over a river to accommodate there employees reaching Microsoft's offices then they would either build it themselves or partner with the city to build it. In this case it appears we are discussing a public bridge that previously exists.
While it's interesting that they've come up with a way to get around a tax situation this is not unusual. If this was a forum for MBA's they'd probably be interested in how to use the loophole themselves and less interested in the fact that Microsft is "evading" a local state government tax.
It seems in the long run however that Microsoft is probably paying a tax that covers the repair of this bridge. When I pay property taxes on my home I expect it to cover the repair of my roads. I don't expect to be burdened with an additional form of taxation to cover road work.
Now off the topic of the road if Washington State really felt that they were being robbed of this money they would probably change their tax law in order to remove the loophole. Chances are the increased revenue from sales tax on the workforce in the state outweighs the risk of MS moving somewhere else to continue to avoid the tax.
I've worked with a number of IBM products this year that use Python embedded into them for various things.
For example, WebSphere switched to python for it's internal configuration language. This finally replaced TCL.
Is increased exposure by using this in various products increasing the popularity?
If salary is making them hard to retain it means that other companies are hiring at that rate.
Although the managers could be fighting something that is difficult to compete with. With the increase of published national average salaries for proffessions a lot of people expect to get the average rate. Two things count against them with this there is little differentiation between entry level and experienced with the same title.(I had senior strapped on the front of my title 10 days out of college)
The other thing at play could be that regional salary rates are much different from the national average. Areas with generally higher cost of living tend to have generally higher salaries. This causes an increase in the national average. This kind of factor in salaries are rarely explained in articles that give salary estimates.
These factors lead to expectations that may be higher than what the local market can bare.
Some large companies have a tendency to price entry level salaries a little lower because they are expecting that the benefits of working(training, experience, stability) for them out way the lower salary. However as budgets tighten up as we approach a possible recession the benefits of working for them are reduced and there is bound to be a little friction at the lower than market salary.
Douglas Coupland has his characters create a program based on lego in his book "Microserfs". It's a rather funny book as is his more recent book Jpod wich is similar in concept.
Don't know if anyone ever wrote the app though.
If only this were possible.
Buying a diamond isn't about showing wealth. In fact if you get over the "you must have 1 carat" regime they can become pretty reasonably priced.
The truth is even if you don't agree with the diamond industry(and I don't either). If you're really going to get engaged to someone you have to worry about what they think.
I bought my wife a diamond because that is what she wanted. Also be aware that even if you can get her to understand think about making her explain your point of view to her friends every time she tries to show off her engagement ring.
Unfortunately the diamond industry has us between a shiny rock and a hard place.
I'm sure if you go to some walmart in the middle of nowhere you can find a wii. However in major city centers you're still going to have a shortage. At last report I heard there were still some kicking around on shelves in West Texas.
Texas was cold last weekend too.
He would also need to prove that there wasn't a pre-existing defect in his x-box 360. Such as the overheating issue that microsoft has extended the warranty.
I had problems running Halo 3 as well so I went online to microsoft support and learned how to clear my cache. Since then it has been running without a hitch.
Maybe look for xbox support instead of launching suit.
With a little bit of time and research you could probably re-write the MBR back to the original values. You said that the data was all still there so you are probably just missing the Partition table.
I did this once to recover some Netware servers. It takes about a day to research it and figure it out from scratch. I used a tool that came from Norton Utilities at the time but I'm sure there's another free tool out there these days.
Wiki should have all of the values on Partition types that you need.
While I agree that the one click patent is a little too obvious... I do question your logic.
Wasn't the patent system setup to provide monopoly on people doing new things so that research was more easily affordable and justifiable.
The risk involved with being the first into a new market does somewhat justify the need for a small monopoly on the things that you develop by entering that space.
Obvious in hindsight isn't a fair test. Once you know how something works it is often obvious but that doesn't mean the person that created something that didn't exist should be penalized for creating something that is easy to understand.
Also while there are obviously some problems with the patent system throwing it out isn't a good solution. It encourages research in our economy even if it does lead to messes like 1-click.
I know that for a home user 8 months may seem like long enough for an Office application to be deployed but it's not really that long.
A large number of businesses only upgrade every 2 versions because of the cost of training,re-writing templates and integration, and the price of deployment.
If it is in the plan to deploy Office 2007 for these networks expect them to be using the old document format for at least a year - 2 years after deployment due to compatibility headaches.
So you should measure this number again in a year or so. Once the large enterprises start to publish in this format you will most likely see a spike in usage of the format.
Interesting thought. If you tracked trends on the published format could you get enough detail to figure out when a company upgraded? The company would probably need to be of significant size.
If we deployed a large solar array in space and then used it to generate energon cubes then we could just use the shuttle to collect the energon cubes. Later after we gathered enough we could build large transforming robots to collect the cubes. These robots would be powered off the cubes as well.
Great idea for products that already exist
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While this is a great idea for entering markets when you are no longer on the bleeding edge how easy is it to have no buttons when you are right on that edge. The two devices that he's done the most design work to remove buttons are the ipod, and the iphone. Neither of these were cutting edge when they came out.If anything this aversion to buttons has proven that you can develop market space in an already saturated marked by working to simplify the interface.
Cell phones have been around a long time. People should be working to simplify them now. However I still like my cell phone with buttons from last year because I could call people before the iPhone released.
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Go out and find a whitepaper on this stuff that isn't targeted at CEO's. There are some good ones. I'd include links but I work for a vendor and I don't want you to get our slant.
There are other models, Private Cloud just uses the same concepts that public cloud uses and applies them to your existing IT infrastructure. Your users get easy access to compute resources and because they are inside your network connecting to them is no different from connecting to any other system you maintain.
Corporations like cloud because it reduces their time to delivery and their overall cost of building a new server. IT people should like it because it enforces standardization, and increases reliability due to the reduced risk of human error. Also IT people should like it because most of what it does is pretty boring anyway and we've all most likely scripted it. Cloud just re-uses those scripts and executes them for us.
Agreed. I think the definition above is a pretty limited view of what "IT workers" defines. There's a lot more going on in the industry.
I think you're right that IT people make or break a solution and the same is true of cloud models. The need for IT people to design, build and repair the automation will stay in the new model. I'm not sure if this is "blue collar" IT or not (sort of a dumb concept). I wish cloud wasn't pushed as a new concept because in reality it's a convergence of a number of concepts that have been in the industry for some time. I think that's what makes it a little more of a reality than the traditional new buzzwords. Cloud Computing is taking the standardization efforts of SOA and ITIL and adding automation and virtualization. Since most of us now have IAAS and PAAS documented it makes it easier for Cloud to catch on.
There will be a shift in roles. People that today have most of their job defined by Server Build, Application installation, or OS installation are in danger. They need to either script themselves out of a job, thereby becoming "Automation Experts" or someone will likely do it for them. Current timelines within organizations for server build of 1-2 weeks is going to become a pressing issue as we exit this recession and try to ramp up new projects. Cloud is available at the right time to address those concerns and is based in concepts that people have already been using for a couple of years. It's possible that the word Cloud will go away but the concepts that it brings are going to stick around for a long time, and be a game changer.
Quick everyone come join us in Arizona. No Earthquakes, No Tornadoes, No hurricanes. The only natural disaster we have is that it gets really, really hot in the summer. And once in a while it rains and everyone panics.
I just had a new house built and they ran cat 6 to all the phone jacks. I thought it was neat and if I ever cancel vonage I can use it as a lan. Then I thought about the fact that wireless is easier and doesn't require a network cable.
Computers are never a solution to lack of knowledge although they can help us manage larger datasets in an efficient way. What it comes down to is the current state of economic theory is not sufficient to model macroeconomics. Some day these theoretical models may improve in which case computers are a great tool for managing what will be a large and complex dataset. To in any way suggest that the current macroeconomic models are anything other than predictive is a lie. So basically it's a choice of where to spend your research money and we should be spending on Economics if we want the model to improve not Comp Sci. Although I think there is plenty of Comp Sci work left to be done, which can be a benefit to multiple disciplines rather than an individual one.
There is a tipping point to the cement argument which is why you don't see it in truly cold locations like Canada. Cement roads have a longer lifespan than asphalt and it works out to be cheaper in some locations. In other locations ,due frost, the ground moves too much to see the return on investment. In Canada where there is heavy frost every winter a cement road would still be required to be repaired every year but at a much greater cost due to the cracks caused by frost. This is why you see more cement roads in the southern states and less in the northern. Asphalt's lower cost to install and repair makes it a better fit in colder areas. Neither is a perfect solution but each serves it's purpose in it's place. The perfect solution, as always, is to give us our flying cars.
Please note that it doesn't say bring back to the United states, where they are a citizen.
While I completely agree on ethanol disappearing once subsidies are removed, I can't agree that the increasing cost of wheat is related to ethanol production. In fact it's the rising cost of oil for transportation that is being embedded into the cost of wheat products that is raising their price.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_netflix?currentPage=all
The algorithm wants to analyze your habits and then recommend the best movie for you. The interest to netflix is if you can get more people interested in movies that they haven't seen then they will rent more movies.
You're not our buddys guy.
We've been using this as a way to encrypt our p2p transactions for years. Unfortunately Bell is a Canadian company and their systems support Eh!2 encryption.
The RCMP won't polite you to death they'll tazer you just like everyone else.
Well to be perfectly honest if they had the option they probably would build their own bridge. If there needed to be a bridge over a river to accommodate there employees reaching Microsoft's offices then they would either build it themselves or partner with the city to build it. In this case it appears we are discussing a public bridge that previously exists. While it's interesting that they've come up with a way to get around a tax situation this is not unusual. If this was a forum for MBA's they'd probably be interested in how to use the loophole themselves and less interested in the fact that Microsft is "evading" a local state government tax. It seems in the long run however that Microsoft is probably paying a tax that covers the repair of this bridge. When I pay property taxes on my home I expect it to cover the repair of my roads. I don't expect to be burdened with an additional form of taxation to cover road work. Now off the topic of the road if Washington State really felt that they were being robbed of this money they would probably change their tax law in order to remove the loophole. Chances are the increased revenue from sales tax on the workforce in the state outweighs the risk of MS moving somewhere else to continue to avoid the tax.
I've worked with a number of IBM products this year that use Python embedded into them for various things. For example, WebSphere switched to python for it's internal configuration language. This finally replaced TCL. Is increased exposure by using this in various products increasing the popularity?
If salary is making them hard to retain it means that other companies are hiring at that rate. Although the managers could be fighting something that is difficult to compete with. With the increase of published national average salaries for proffessions a lot of people expect to get the average rate. Two things count against them with this there is little differentiation between entry level and experienced with the same title.(I had senior strapped on the front of my title 10 days out of college) The other thing at play could be that regional salary rates are much different from the national average. Areas with generally higher cost of living tend to have generally higher salaries. This causes an increase in the national average. This kind of factor in salaries are rarely explained in articles that give salary estimates. These factors lead to expectations that may be higher than what the local market can bare. Some large companies have a tendency to price entry level salaries a little lower because they are expecting that the benefits of working(training, experience, stability) for them out way the lower salary. However as budgets tighten up as we approach a possible recession the benefits of working for them are reduced and there is bound to be a little friction at the lower than market salary.
Douglas Coupland has his characters create a program based on lego in his book "Microserfs". It's a rather funny book as is his more recent book Jpod wich is similar in concept. Don't know if anyone ever wrote the app though.
If only this were possible. Buying a diamond isn't about showing wealth. In fact if you get over the "you must have 1 carat" regime they can become pretty reasonably priced. The truth is even if you don't agree with the diamond industry(and I don't either). If you're really going to get engaged to someone you have to worry about what they think. I bought my wife a diamond because that is what she wanted. Also be aware that even if you can get her to understand think about making her explain your point of view to her friends every time she tries to show off her engagement ring. Unfortunately the diamond industry has us between a shiny rock and a hard place.
I'm sure if you go to some walmart in the middle of nowhere you can find a wii. However in major city centers you're still going to have a shortage. At last report I heard there were still some kicking around on shelves in West Texas. Texas was cold last weekend too.
He would also need to prove that there wasn't a pre-existing defect in his x-box 360. Such as the overheating issue that microsoft has extended the warranty. I had problems running Halo 3 as well so I went online to microsoft support and learned how to clear my cache. Since then it has been running without a hitch. Maybe look for xbox support instead of launching suit.
With a little bit of time and research you could probably re-write the MBR back to the original values. You said that the data was all still there so you are probably just missing the Partition table. I did this once to recover some Netware servers. It takes about a day to research it and figure it out from scratch. I used a tool that came from Norton Utilities at the time but I'm sure there's another free tool out there these days. Wiki should have all of the values on Partition types that you need.
While I agree that the one click patent is a little too obvious... I do question your logic. Wasn't the patent system setup to provide monopoly on people doing new things so that research was more easily affordable and justifiable. The risk involved with being the first into a new market does somewhat justify the need for a small monopoly on the things that you develop by entering that space. Obvious in hindsight isn't a fair test. Once you know how something works it is often obvious but that doesn't mean the person that created something that didn't exist should be penalized for creating something that is easy to understand. Also while there are obviously some problems with the patent system throwing it out isn't a good solution. It encourages research in our economy even if it does lead to messes like 1-click.
I know that for a home user 8 months may seem like long enough for an Office application to be deployed but it's not really that long.
A large number of businesses only upgrade every 2 versions because of the cost of training,re-writing templates and integration, and the price of deployment.
If it is in the plan to deploy Office 2007 for these networks expect them to be using the old document format for at least a year - 2 years after deployment due to compatibility headaches.
So you should measure this number again in a year or so. Once the large enterprises start to publish in this format you will most likely see a spike in usage of the format.
Interesting thought. If you tracked trends on the published format could you get enough detail to figure out when a company upgraded? The company would probably need to be of significant size.
If we deployed a large solar array in space and then used it to generate energon cubes then we could just use the shuttle to collect the energon cubes. Later after we gathered enough we could build large transforming robots to collect the cubes. These robots would be powered off the cubes as well.
While this is a great idea for entering markets when you are no longer on the bleeding edge how easy is it to have no buttons when you are right on that edge. The two devices that he's done the most design work to remove buttons are the ipod, and the iphone. Neither of these were cutting edge when they came out.If anything this aversion to buttons has proven that you can develop market space in an already saturated marked by working to simplify the interface.
Cell phones have been around a long time. People should be working to simplify them now. However I still like my cell phone with buttons from last year because I could call people before the iPhone released.