@Ariella, yes good point, when bitcoin is pegged to the dollar to pay salaries a bit of the volatility is finished, and that to only during the calculated interval, so if salaries were paid on the 2nd of each month and bitcoin...
In reply to: Re: Misdirected Ingenuity
Google has watched Amazon run off with the infrastructure as a service market, even though it pioneered some of the concepts that Amazon has successfully implemented in its public cloud. Why can't we do that, must be the...
In reply to: Google's late to the party, but deadly serious
Good article, Paul. There's a movement going on to integrate dashboarding APIs into current patient portals. This will help bring the current "plane-jane" look and feel of patient portals to the next level. Cipe is just...
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Yeah, 3rd party, middleware security solutions are the answer. Sure they are. Go watch the old movie The Net and then come back and post some more on this. And, no, don't post about how Sandra Bullock is hottest...
In reply to: Re: More security needed
THIS RACE-TO-THE-BOTTOM, on behalf of unlimited profits, makes the concept of this type of innovation impossible. It is, however, an ideal worth pursuing.
In reply to: TURBOCHARGINN INNOVATION?
I think that is great advice to be giving anyone. Generally speaking and in my view, I think economics and technology are the same things. It's like the chicken and the egg. Technology began during the 1st industrial revolution...
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I expect that the buggy-whip making robots will be first... Did you write this on an IBM 8086 PC with a 14" 320x200 tube-type monitor and dual 360K floppies that cost you a few grand? What a historically and economically...
In reply to: Doomed to repeat it.
The problem is that they're still not big enough to get away with it. Sure, Amazon dominates the cloud market, but it's not an oligopoly. There are dozens of large alternatives and hundreds of smaller ones. Verizon, HP,...
In reply to: Re: Why should vendors play along?
I'm not a big enterprise, but anyone who's read my columns over the past year might know that my primary work environment is Chrome OS (for writing and research) and iOS and Android for communication. The need for a conventional...
In reply to: Re: Interesting but ...
35 years ago, we had "Mood Rings". This will no doubt work just as reliably, and at hundreds of times the cost. Being a Microsoft product, does this mean that it will have to be removed and put back on...
In reply to: Meh.
Yes, I have known that emotional eating is bad however, having a tool to make you aware of your mood would be quite helpful for me. I don't think about "why" I'm eating, I tend to just eat when my brain tells me I...
In reply to: Great idea...here's why:
This is such a complex issue. The project management of this was bad, but is that because of te IT behind it or because of government procurement process? Then, consider the implications of shutting the site down. Knowing...
In reply to: Re: Project Management
"Company data residing on personal devices is a done deal" - I am not sure this is the right answer especially if corporate (or any others for that matter) data is critical and/or sensitive. I think the true...
In reply to: Protect the data not the device
The fact that Microsoft has to fight our own government for privacy seems so ridiculous. This technological arms war almost seems like a waste of money. But then again, who knows what kinds of new privacy tech may come...
In reply to: Re: I can smell the pile
The number of govenrment incursions appears to be minute when compared to the power in private/business "Big Brother" hands e.g. Google Analytics. Your service and practically all others have a privacy policy that basicly...
In reply to: Seems you're ignoring the real privacy issue
Smart move by Google. I think that in comparison with Amazon, Google has a better relationship wih many orgnazations through its deployment of Google Apps. Google Apps is a veritable "in" for the company to sell other...
In reply to: Re: Face Off
I'd be wary of Microsoft's touch-enabled version of Office. For one thing, Office is best compatible with a keyboard to be productive. How is the company going to be able to port that concept over to touch? They have not...
In reply to: Re: Focus on enterprises
I agree that we shouldn't give up on OpenStack, but let's not underestimate the magnitude of the change that's required. As I blogged recently OpenStack APIs (and, in some less well defined sense, the code) are intended...
In reply to: Recognizing the stakeholders
Anybody else feel like a Butlerian Jihad? I kinda feel like a Butlerian Jihad.
In reply to: Dune Reference in 3,2,1
@Brian exactly, that's why while such high prices make bitcoin appear attractive, in reality, it is detrimental to its use as currency. Before writing an article on bitcoin for CFO, I contacted the companies that made the...
In reply to: Re: Misdirected Ingenuity
InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
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Enterprise cloud adoption has evolved to the point where hybrid public/private cloud designs and use of multiple providers is common. Who among us has mastered provisioning resources in different clouds; allocating the right resources to each application; assigning applications to the "best" cloud provider based on performance or reliability requirements.
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