I have been struggling for sometime now to understand why cloud computing and cloud storage have suddenly become so popular.  We have previously discussed some of cloud problems (here and here) but we have never touched on why cloud has become so popular. In my view, SaaS or ASPs and MSPs have been around for [...]

Coming out of the deep recession of 2007-2009 I am struck by how closely business success during recession looks like what ecologists call punctuated equilibrium.  As Wikipedia defines it, punctuated equilibria, “… is a model for discontinuous tempos of change (in) the process of speciation and the deployment of species in geological time.” This seems [...]

[Long post, over 4 minute reading] For a while now, I have been considering whether an inter-planetary economy would be possible.  Given that faster than light speed is impossible for any material substance, I believe the only viable foundation for any inter-planetory economy must be information transfers.  But can this sustain a multi-planet economy. Worldwide [...]

The crowd seemed more end-user centric, the exhibit floor seemed less intense, and sigh, the bar less crowded.  But mostly what I heard at this week’s SNW was more interest on SSDs and on cloud computing and storage. Admittedly, I am a different observer than most at SNW.  I typically do not attend tutorials/sessions unless [...]

All the news about iPad and iBooks app got me thinking. There’s been much discussion on e-book pricing but no one is looking at what to charge for items other than books.  I look at this as something like what happened to albums when iTunes came out.  Individual songs were now available without having to [...]