AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatarWhy you should think about the cloud like the electric gridReadWrite - Jeff DeVerterA century ago, many large manufacturers in the U.S. were still powering their factories with in-house electricity generation. It may sound illogical now, but at the time it made sense. Just as these manufacturers needed to be near a railway or major waterway to get raw materials in and products out, …
AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatarBig Companies Want to Move to the Cloud But Still Have No Idea Howverified_publisherFortune - Barb DarrowGiven the rampant chatter in Silicon Valley about companies moving software and data from their data centers to a shared public cloud, you might …
http://www.eweek.com/cloud/cisco-to-produce-azure-stack-hybrid-cloud-systems.htmlAvatarRoger KintFeb 11, 2017
AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatarCloud Computing Changed How Los Angeles Responds to a Crisisverified_publisherFortune - Andrew ZaleskiTed Ross is proud of the state-of-the-art Emergency Operations Center on which more than 4 million Los Angeles residents will rely in the event of a …
AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatarGet Ready for a Flood of Cloud Software Dealsverified_publisherFortune - Barb DarrowThis week’s news of Microsoft’s $26.2 billion plan to buy LinkedIn and Symantec’s decision to purchase Blue Coat for $4.65 billion means that the …
AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatarBilling by Millionths of Pennies, Cloud Computing’s Giants Take In Billions (Published 2016)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Quentin HardySAN FRANCISCO — Imagine building an enormous beach resort, maybe the best in the world. Instead of renting the rooms, you charge guests based on the grains of sand they touch. You charge very little per grain, but if they lie on enough of them, it adds up. That is one way to think about what is …
AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatarHigh Performance Object Storage With Flash MemoryForbes - Tom CoughlinObject storage is playing a major role in the development of modern data centers. Various storage solutions with HDDs have been in the field for a while providing object storage, many for active archive applications. A new generation of flash-based products is providing flash support for high …
AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatar64 places you can learn to code online for freeverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Laurence Bradford,If you're brand new to the world of web design and web development, it makes sense to get started learning to code by utilizing all the free resources available online. This way, you can discover what you like (and more importantly don't) before financially investing in a certain set of …
AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatarDNA data storage could last thousands of yearsverified_publisherReuters - Matthew StockResearchers in Switzerland have developed a method for writing vast amounts of information in DNA and storing it inside a synthetic fossil, potentially for thousands of years. In past centuries, books and scrolls preserved the knowledge of our ancestors, even though they were prone to damage and …
AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatarScientists are asking the wrong questions of big dataverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Malte Ebach,Big Data is changing the way we do science today. Traditionally, data were collected manually by scientists making measurements, using microscopes or surveys. These data could be analyzed by hand or using simple statistical software on a PC. Big Data has changed all that. These days, tremendous …
AvatarRoger KintAvatarAvatarAmazon's cloud boss told us something that should terrify a $140 billion industryverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Rob PriceThere's no question Amazon is turning the screws on the $140 billion data-center-tech industry. Amazon has grown to become the largest player in the rapidly growing cloud industry as its cloud platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), celebrates its 10-year anniversary. And in the process, AWS has sent …