Notes from the Consultant's Jungle

This year’s Cloud World conference was a mashup of three industry conferences-¬† Open Source World, Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), and Cloud World.¬† Even with the combining of three (formerly) major industry events, the attendance volume still only merited the West wing of the Moscone Center. It’s easy to blame the low attendance on the [...]

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There’s a piece by Jim Finkle in Reuters this morning about the rise in cybercrime in social networking sites.¬† The article mentions that MySpace had been plagued by this for several years, but now with the increasing popularity of Facebook, the criminals are going where the game is. Per the article, “Facebook is the social [...]

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In April we predicted that this would be the break-out year for container data centers.¬† In July we posted more information about container data centers when we were working MEP cost models for container-based facilities.¬† The year is half over now, and though the “break-out” has yet to happen there have been some very notable [...]

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In many discussions about Web 2.0 technologies’ role in the enterprise, it’s interesting to me to notice the skeptical voice and contrarian opinion. These are valuable points of view, and essential for one to properly vet the application of the technology in terms of value delivered to the Business. Many times, the contrarian voice represents [...]

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Our world has lost a tremendous mind, a gargantuan talent, and a wonderful man. Robert Rauschenberg passed on last night at the young age of 82. Rauschenberg was one of the most influential American artists of our life time. His pioneering of assemblage and juxtaposition of images created a window of enlightenment through which many [...]

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