Over the next five years spending on IT cloud services is expected to grow nearly threefold, reaching $42 billion by 2012 and accounting for 9 percent of revenues in five key market segments, according to a survey from IDC.Spending on cloud computing is on track to accelerate during the forecast period, capturing 25 percent of IT spending growth in 2012 and close to a third in 2013.
Open Source Guru Rails Against Cloud Computing
Criticism of the rising cloud computing meme has come from a seemingly unlikely place: GNU creator and Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman. Traditionally, any option to Microsoft’s dominance would be a welcomed change in the open source community, but Stallman foresees corporate bullies being replaced with different corporate bullies who would put your privacy at risk.
ROI and Social Computing
Over the last couple of days, I have been reading with great interest a number of the different blog posts that the last two articles I wrote on ROI and Social Computing have sparkled and, as I am going through them digesting some of the great points they bring together (Something I will blog about as well at a later time), I thought I would create an interim pos
Google, Apple May Partner On Cloud Computing
As rumors go, this is a pretty solid one: it seems that Google and Apple will partner, and together, the companies are likely to give .Mac a huge cloud-computing boost.
TLE Highlights: The Irony of Social Computing
As I have just mentioned, this is a follow up weblog post from the previous one I have shared regarding some of the highlights from IBM’s 2007 Technical Leadership Exchange event held in Paris last week.
More on Microsoft’s Surface Computing
I talked with Microsoft’s Surface computing team today. Here’s some more details I learned.
PlayTable, er Surface Computing
Andy Wilson. Remember the guy I introduced you to at Microsoft Research?
Funny, he was at the Maker Faire last weekend talking to everyone and showing off his latest thing. He builds demos for Bill Gates and he was the one who first showed me the PlayTable. Now called “Surface Computing.”
Immortal Computing Is A Little Creepy, Microsoft
In my grandparent’s basement, on the wall, there are pictures of ugly, frowning people, relatives of mine, in that ghostly, milky sepia coloring all those 19th Century photos have. They’re dead, those people, and some part of them is part of me – but if they had ever spoken to me through those dusty frames (and I imagined they did), Great Great Grandfather would be dead twice, his second life smashed on the mantle.
Charlene Li Talks Social Computing
(Continuing notes from Forrester Consumer Forum. More here.)
Amazon Stretches Into Elastic Computing
Just as the online retailer expanded its web service offerings with its S3 Simple Storage Service, Amazon now offers the Elastic Compute Cloud, a virtual machine for developers to use.