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Read and respond to what the EDS Fellows have to say about the future of technology on EDS' Next Big Thing Blog on eds.com.

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Cloud Computing Forecast

In Network World magazine there was an article that predicted a cloudy future for cloud computing. They listed a number of problems:

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 7:32 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Is there better power out there? What role will IT play?

Energy is the lifeblood of the economy and the British Thermal Unit (BTU) is the standard measure for the energy we use to heat our homes, travel to work, run our factories, power communications, produce foods, and power our computers. Information technology (IT) plays an ever increasing role relating to energy, whether it is helping to locate, develop, produce, transport, or even consume energy.

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Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:43 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Is the Market Ready for “Green Services”?

At the moment there is a lot of discussion going on around Green IT. In the broadest sense, Green IT can be defined as the practice of deploying and using Information Technology (IT) as efficiently as possible. Based on this definition, the concepts of virtualization, power management, technology refresh, and mobility can all be encompassed under the Green IT umbrella. Even from a data center perspective, the focus is on data center design, maintenance, and operation. As such, the overarching end-to-end data center Green Services solution may be there in practice, but it does not come to the forefront.

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Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:26 AM by René Aerdts | 4 Comments

Event Driven Management and Opportunistic Computing

A while back I wrote a blog entry on Opportunistic Computing, what an organization can do with cloud computing that they wouldn't have done before. I just read an entry on the Smart Enough Systems blog that looks at some similar issues but from the perspective of proactive use of IT to increase the value of the business. He wrote that the characteristics of an organization using Event Driven Management are:

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Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 12:47 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

A Different Kind of Cloud Computing

In reading through the recent blog on cloud computing, my mind started wandering to this very topic. However, I was not thinking about cloud computing in the "traditional" sense of compute-as-a-service, but in a more controversial fashion.

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Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:14 AM by René Aerdts | 2 Comments

Is cloud computing vaporware or almost here?

In the past few months, I've been in numerous discussions about cloud computing and when it will get here. Lately there's been discussion even in the bastion of proprietary computing hardware -- the gaming industry moving away from consoles. You can already see today on some of the MMOG, that there is significant backend computing taking place with the console focused on presentation. Many organizations have already looked hard at putting thin client solutions (like the Sunray) on many of the desktops that perform normal office functions. They take less power and they're easier to support. Of course without a network, they are just a brick.

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Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 7:59 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

IT development organizations needs to heed Moore’s law

Now that cooling has become a major problem for computing, the focus for the last few years has been on adding more cores rather than increasing clock speed and adding more cache.

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Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:06 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Virtual Presence and Green IT

For centuries the workers of the world have had to locate within commuting distance of their work. It was necessary because, their work could hardly travel to where they lived. Not anymore.  The paradigm of moving work to people rather than moving people to work is being adopted more and more by progressive companies who understand that there are benefits that devolve both to the enterprise as well as to employees.

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Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 5:49 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Managing IT Complexity With GridMaps

What do financial markets have in common with IT infrastructure and applications? Complexity.

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Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 5:45 PM by Rolf Kubli | 0 Comments

Application portfolio and its value to an organization

One of the critical components of an application management function for an organization is a usable and actively used application portfolio, as part of an overall IT portfolio management approach. It's been widely accepted that 70-80% of any IT organization's budget is consumed in keeping the existing applications running ("keeping the lights on"), yet there are significant technological and regulatory pressures for spending on change.

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Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 2:48 PM by Charlie Bess | 1 Comments

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