07.Aug

Let’s Inno­vate Team

by W.R. Wing

Dark­strand was named one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 com­pa­nies for 2009. Mike Stein, the CEO, was on a panel on Cloud Com­put­ing. Check it out here:

http://​alwayson​.goin​gon​.com/​p​e​r​m​a​l​i​n​k​/​p​o​s​t​/​3​2​096

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29.Jul

Two His­tory Lessons

by W.R. Wing

Last week I promised to con­tinue talk­ing about the Private-Sector meet­ing hosted at NCSA, but as I started col­lect­ing my thoughts, I real­ized that I will prob­a­bly be talk­ing about this for the next sev­eral weeks, and that I needed to pro­vide at least some back­ground and con­text so that peo­ple can appre­ci­ate just how

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24.Jul

Thoughts on a Visit to the NCSA

by W.R. Wing

Back from spend­ing three days at an invitation-only event hosted by the National Cen­ter For Super­com­put­ing Appli­ca­tions (NCSA) in Cham­paign, Illi­nois. NCSA is one of the old­est of the National Sci­ence Foundation’s Super­com­put­ing cen­ters, there being only three left of the orig­i­nal five (some peo­ple would say only two). For any­one too young to remember

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23.Jul

Chal­lenges with Cloud Latency

by Tony Karam

In this piece by Michele Mun­son from Aspera, she really brings to light the chal­lenges of ship­ping large data over long dis­tances and that at the top of anyone’s list is to ensure an opti­mum band­width solution.

http://​gigaom​.com/​2​0​0​9​/​0​6​/​2​0​/​a​v​o​i​d​i​n​g​-​l​a​t​e​n​c​y​-​i​n​-​t​h​e​-​c​l​o​ud/

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20.Jul

Amazon’s Prob­lems with the Cloud

by Michael Stein

Here’s a per­fect exam­ple of the chal­lenges faced by any­one pro­vid­ing cloud com­put­ing ser­vices. Even if your name is Ama­zon, and you can offer enor­mous process and data stor­age, it requires an entirely new kind of long hail net­work capac­ity to make vir­tual enter­prise com­put­ing real. See below

http://​gigaom​.com/​2​0​0​9​/​0​5​/​2​1​/​a​m​a​z​o​n​s​-​n​e​w​-​s​e​r​v​i​c​e​-​g​o​e​s​-​p​o​s​t​a​l​-​o​v​e​r​-​s​l​o​w​-​b​r​o​a​d​b​a​nd/

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