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Cloud Migration Strategy

Open any IT magazine today and there will be at least one article, and five advertisements for some new cloud computing product or service. It is not even fun anymore to talk about how big The Cloud will one day … Continue reading

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SciFi Tech

I want to draw your attention to some technology developed by the impressive Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Labs. They have built a working model of what could be described as the 3rd generation in personal data assistants. You … Continue reading

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The Crowd Is The Cloud

People are talking about the Internet morphing into a Cloud based technological organism, but it has always been a Cloud of sorts.  It is just lately that we are all becoming part of the Cloud.  Micro-blogging has erupted into an … Continue reading

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The Cloud Needs Focus

This is no secret, but, I am a huge advocate of the Cloud technology ecosystem.  I use about as many applications in the cloud as I can find.  If there is a good, free, or low-cost alternative to a bulky … Continue reading

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Safety In (File) Numbers

Cloud-based File Storage Last weekend on Twitter, I saw a few tweets where a friend had lost a file, and try as she might, she could not find it on her machine, it was simply gone.  There were lots of … Continue reading

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The Platform of Clouds

We hear about the ‘Cloud’ at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways.  The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and … Continue reading

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Small Computers & Limitless Storage

Our computers are shrinking again, even as they become incredibly more powerful.  Ultra portable laptops, sometimes called ‘netbooks’, are sitting on boardroom tables all across America, and smartphones are in the hands of teenagers, the college crowd. and (shudder) even … Continue reading

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