In the economics of computing the most expensive resource is still the network. In scenarios where large data-sets are being processed it is almost always cheap...
An interesting debate took place at last week’s Cloud2020 gathering regarding the viability of futures markets for cloud computing capacity. I’m fir...
Part 2 of this series of articles looked at how transitioning from scarcity to an abundance of fundamental computing resources enabled the historic one-to-one r...
Part I in this series of articles outlined the impact that the economics of scarcity has had on both software architectures and the structure of the computer in...
The underlying economics of computing resources have always had a profound impact on development of computing architecture and in-turn the structure of the comp...
Imagine a world where all internet browsers are required to present users with a simple question: “Do you want your online browsing activity tracked, reco...
This weeks Partner’s conference has once again exposed Microsoft’s complete lack of any credible consumer strategy. On the one hand Ballmer claims h...
In various corporate meeting rooms at Samsung, Microsoft, HP, RIM and Google eager teams of engineers, marketing folks and freshly minted MBAs are trying to fig...