Category: Policy
Why There’s No Future in Cloud Futures
An interesting debate took place at last week’s Cloud2020 gathering regarding the viability of futures markets for cloud computing capacity. I’m fir...
Economics and Platform Architecture (Part 1)
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...
How ‘Do Not Track’ Will Transform Internet Business Models
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...
The Network Carrier Dilemma
This article in Forbes magazine about network equipment providers enabling network carriers to expose service APIs (Application Programing Interfaces) started a...
The Jobs Are Not Coming Back
The NY Times published an interesting article today the impact of robotics on manufacturing jobs using Amazon’s purchase of robot maker Kiva Systems as an...
Policy Challenges for A Globally Integrated Innovation, Production and Market Platform
“Cloud computing” is much more than simply a new set of technologies and business models. It is rapidly emerging as the platform that will underpin the next ge...
Five Things Politicians Need to Understand About Data Centers
The Office of Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia issued a press release today trumpetting their success in convincing Microsoft to build its latest Gen4 Data Ce...
Why Regulators Need to Mandate Open Data Protocols in the Cloud
TechCrunch’s article about Intuit’s decision to shut down Quicken OnLine and not let users migrate their data to the new service Mint.com is an outs...