Category: Cloud Computing



Tom Koulopoulos’ latest book Cloud Surfing

Leader – As founder of Delphi Group he built one of the most prominent and well respected global consulting firm with offices in the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, South America, and England.

Author – His eight books, including The Innovation Zone, Smartsourcing, Corporate Instinct, Smart Companies, Smart Tools and The X-economy have introduced core industry concepts, frameworks and vernacular such as Single Point of Access, Touch Points, Digital Control Rooms, Business Operating Systems, Corporate IQ, Information Value Chains, and Smartsourcing – ideas that are widely used today in describing the impact of technology on business.

Futurist – His ability to clearly and effectively communicate complex ideas in a powerful and simple manner have won accolades from prominent business leaders and pundits, such as Tom Peters, who said of Tom’s book Corporate Instinct, “It provides and brilliant vision of where we must take our organizations to survive and thrive.”

To learn more about IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. Leverage next generation data analysis capability on the cloud with Big Insights. Find out how organizations are gaining insights from vast quantities of data—fundamentally changing the way organizations use information. It means filtering petabytes of data per second from almost any connected device, analyzing the data while still in motion, deciding what, if any, data must be stored, and even using analytics tools to virtually integrate the data with data stored in traditional warehouses. Organizations can integrate and analyze unstructured data wherever it lives—including the Internet—without overwhelming enterprise data warehouses.

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The NSA is storing all global communications as they add a $2 Billion Total Awareness Utah Center to the cloud, and promise that one day the Yottabytes of Big Data will be deciphered.


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What is the NSA building? Cascade to be the fastest most powerfuL computer in the world designed to decipher stored data!

  • WHO AUTHORIZED THIS PROJECT?
  • WHAT IS A YOTTABYTE?

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Tape Library Future is the Cloud

Want to know the location of the cloud?


Learn more on how to protect your data with the HP ESL G3 Tape Library

Infoboom future-storage-aug2011-v3
by Tony Pearson on Aug 23, 2011

Infoboom webcast, August 23, 2011. This session covers the futures of IT storage, including the shifting roles of SSD, disk and tape; convergence of LAN and SAN networks into a data center network; and the emergence of storage for Cloud Computing.

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Robots run the digital storage devices
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ONE TRILLION BITS PER SECOND FOR ROBOTIC BRAINS???

Equal to 500 high-def movies downloaded in one second!

Last Thursday at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles, a team from IBM presented research on their wonderfully-named “Holey Optochip.” The prototype chipset is the first parallel optical transceiver that is able to transfer one trillion bits (or one terabit) of information per second. To put that in perspective, IBM states that 500 high-def movies could be downloaded in one second at that speed, while the entire U.S. Library of Congress web archive could be downloaded in an hour. Stated another way, the Optochip is eight times faster than any other parallel optical components currently available, with a speed that’s equivalent to the bandwidth consumed by 100,000 users, if they were using regular 10 Mb/s high-speed internet.

For decades, scientists have dreamed of building computer systems that could replicate the human brain’s talent for learning new tasks. Plasticity is the new phenomenon developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology- MIT, is believed to underlie many brain functions, including learning and memory. The MIT researchers have designed a computer chip that mimics how the brain’s neurons adapt in response to new information.

Gartner Says the Personal Cloud Will Replace the Personal Computer as the Center of Users’ Digital Lives by 2014

  • Megatrend No. 1: Consumerization — You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
    Gartner has discussed the consumerization of IT for the better part of a decade, and has seen the impact of it across various aspects of the corporate IT world. However, much of this has simply been a precursor to the major wave that is starting to take hold across all aspects of information technology as several key factors come together: Users are more technologically savvy and have very different expectations of technology.The Internet and social media have empowered and emboldened users. The rise of powerful, affordable mobile devices changes the equation for users. Users have become innovators. Through the democratization of technology, users of all types and status within organizations can now have similar technology available to them.


  • Megatrend No. 2: Virtualization — Changing How the Game Is Played
    Virtualization has improved flexibility and increased the options for how IT organizations can implement client environments. Virtualization has, to some extent, freed applications from the peculiarities of individual devices, operating systems or even processor architectures. Virtualization provides a way to move the legacy of applications and processes developed in the PC era forward into the new emerging world. This provides low-power devices access to much-greater processing power, thus expanding their utility and increasing the reach of processor-intensive applications.
  • Megatrend No. 3: “App-ification” — From Applications to Apps
    When the way that applications are designed, delivered and consumed by users changes, it has a dramatic impact on all other aspects of the market. These changes will have a profound impact on how applications are written and managed in corporate environments. They also raise the prospect of greater cross-platform portability as small user experience (UX) apps are used to adjust a server- or cloud-resident application to the unique characteristics of a specific device or scenario. One application can now be exposed in multiple ways and used in varying situations by the user.
  • Megatrend No. 4: The Ever-Available Self-Service Cloud
    The advent of the cloud for servicing individual users opens a whole new level of opportunity. Every user can now have a scalable and nearly infinite set of resources available for whatever they need to do. The impacts for IT infrastructures are stunning, but when this is applied to the individual, there are some specific benefits that emerge. Users’ digital activities are far more self-directed than ever before. Users demand to make their own choices about applications, services and content, selecting from a nearly limitless collection on the Internet. This encourages a culture of self-service that users expect in all aspects of their digital experience. Users can now store their virtual workspace or digital personality online.
  • Megatrend No. 5: The Mobility Shift — Wherever and Whenever You Want
    Today, mobile devices combined with the cloud can fulfill most computing tasks, and any tradeoffs are outweighed in the minds of the user by the convenience and flexibility provided by the mobile devices. The emergence of more-natural user interface experiences is making mobility practical. Touch- and gesture-based user experiences, coupled with speech and contextual awareness, are enabling rich interaction with devices and a much greater level of freedom. At any point in time, and depending on the scenario, any given device will take on the role of the user’s primary device — the one at the center of the user’s constellation of devices.
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