Its official (finally).  IBM New Zealand has made public their plans to build a data centre in Auckland to meet the needs of current and future clients.  This has got to be a great opportunity not only for IBM but for organisations looking for secure managed services e.g. cloud solutions, PaaS, SaaS etc. I am excited because it allows [...]

Collaboration minded people are often wondering about what the future desktop will be (well Cloudera‘s view of the future desktop).   Hadoop is software to build large scale clusters of processors for parallel processing. Check out some education on Hadoop here. Hadoop is really for processing analysis across are large data sets – similar to [...]

$3 per month for IBM SaaS Rent Bridgestone provide tyres as a service.  Truks travelling from Italy to Sweden need to change their tyres for the different road and weather conditions.  Bridgestone and their partners provide a service whereby truck owners don’t own their tyres but pay for their tyres by the km. Utiliy Utility [...]

What is your cloud for?

Someone asked me to explain cloudcomputing but someone explains it way better than me – rock on.

“Ubiquity” has been blowing round twitter today so I thought I had better check it out. I think this is great. It is basically a Mozilla mashup solution. While the service requires Mozilla as a client this is a fairly light weight client so I can see that there will be huge uptake. If I [...]

I shared the Enterprise Mashups presentation to a few of my work colleagues the other day. On one of the slides I have a picture of a cheetah’s tail and a graph of the long-tail as shown here. One of my colleagues Chris Eaton pointed out that it would be better if I could flip [...]

Mashups are getting a lot more focus at the present time. I believe that the reason for this is that mashups can deliver to the 3Rs * Return value quickly * Rapid deployment * Reuse of existing capabilities As part of my understanding in this area a pulled together a slide show on the evolution [...]

I was looking at the post on Facebook going open where I added an MTV “Mashup”. I forgot how much I liked the song Tupac Vs BIG remixed with the Police “Walking on the Moon” riff so I hunted out the full track on YouTube as sung by PDiddiy. Not my usual post but thats [...]

I was looking at the press that Facebook delivered some open source components it is all very interesting. The front runners in this space are Facebook, OpenSocial and IBM Mashup Central – I am wondering how or if organisations will jump into bed with Facebook and OpenSocial to deliver Social Networking sites. Gartner certainly thinks [...]