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By Paul, on February 8th, 2010
The number one challenge for most of our clients in 2010 remains finding ways to lift revenue while maintaining or increasing profit margins. There are still attractive segments in new geographical markets such as China, India, and Brazil, but expansion there can cause unusual problems such as the censorship issue in China, or heavy regulation in India.
The US and European markets are still very sluggish –the strength of countries like Germany and Norway is offset by continuing weakness in the UK, Spain, Greece, and Portugal. The removal of government stimuli in developing markets such as China will slow the [...]
By Elliott, on February 7th, 2010
Cloud Security Challenge – Apply by 3/15/2010 and win $10,000:
http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/user_home.php
Even with all the benefits of cloud computing, consider the risks of protecting identity, proper authentication, and security. Global Security Challenge has stepped up “launching the first Cloud Security Challenge competition to explore radical new ideas and game-changing solutions from around the world, in order to make cloud computing more secure.” Great! But let’s spend a moment to consider some of the underlying issues that keep us concerned, regardless of service, platform or OS…
How do you prove you are who you say you are (identity)? How do you [...]
By Charlton, on January 30th, 2010
http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been
This is a well thought-out perspective in terms of *usage*. Steve’s positions on the “New World” use model and its pervasiveness are rather valid. That is a good thing – we would have very different lives if compute power were still in the hands of “Old World” IT. Despite all the advantages of an “Old World” experience where one needed to know how things worked from the inside out, it greatly limited the applicability and accessibility of computing to relatively few. If you wanted to use a PC in the “Old World”, you either needed to know how one worked rather [...]
By Johannes, on January 16th, 2010
While Nicolas Carr’s 2008 bestseller “The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google” insightfully forecasted likely changes arising from the ongoing shift to utility computing infrastructures, he didn’t fully explore what we believe will be the consequences from this revolution to software product and user interaction design, and how software products will be consumed and used. [...]
By Renee, on January 8th, 2010
We hear about new products daily – some stick, others don’t. I would think the reasons why products are excepted have many factors: culture, needs, habits, access to the product or the lack thereof and let’s not forget the elusive cool component.
Google recently released what it calls, a contact extension form, available to viewers selecting a first position ad. Click the ad, form appears, submit form, lead goes to Google – yes Google, advertiser calls Google within 24 hrs to pick up the lead.
We at BTC Logic are curious if viewers will engage in this process or not. During the [...]
By Renee, on January 5th, 2010
Possible trends of e-book industry for 2010 [...]
By Paul, on December 21st, 2009
Eucalyptus, now a Benchmark-funded company, is looking to expand its open source-based service to overtake AWS and VMWare as the leading provider of cloud computing infrastructure services. This bold objective may not be achievable [...]
By Paul, on December 21st, 2009
Startup CloudShare, formerly known as IT Structures, has raised $10 million in series B financing from Sequoia Capital, Gemini Capital, and Charles River Ventures. This brings CloudShare’s total funding up to [...]
By Elliott, on December 12th, 2009
: Back in 1961, Stanford’s Professor John McCarthy, delivering a speech at MIT’s Centennial, talked about the future of computing as a “public utility”. Cloud Computing comes as close to making computing a public utility as any services before. Getting what you need and paying only for that, is a powerful proposition, yet those basic problems of computing, such as privacy, security, safeguarding, and paying remain elusive. To garner the anticipated economic benefits of cloud computing models, PayPal takes a giant step forward for payments in a public cloud with their “Adaptive Payment Solution”.
Earlier this year, PayPal hosted PayPal X Innovate [...]
By Charlton, on December 10th, 2009
Verizon Eats Its Own Clouds
Verizon Communications has reduced operating costs and boosted IT performance 400% by restructuring its cloud-computing processes internally and switching to a virtual approach in its data center through an aggressive process of consolidating its hardware and software platforms, the company said at an industry event today. “We were able to reduce our costs to one-third or less of what we were spending,” said Fari Ebrahimi, chief information officer for Verizon Services.
Verizon’s cited 400% performance improvement and cost reduction of 66% for their IT was achieved through virtualization, consolidation and outsourcing (in particular in their [...]
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