The Cloud has a place, even inside heavily regulated industries
My latest piece for GigaOM Pro, How Regulated Industries Can Move Toward the Cloud, takes a look at some truths to counter the widely held view that regulated industries like financial services cannot make use of Cloud Computing. They can, and they do. If you’re a GigaOM Pro subscriber, take a look. If you’re not, you...
Cloud Computing, Advertising and TV
From a trebling of web traffic within sixty seconds of Channel 4 mentioning the Celebrity Big Brother URL on-air, to 59 million hits in a day to a restaurant web site advertised during the US Super Bowl, advertisers, broadcasters and technologists are falling over themselves to exploit a massive — and growing — opportunity. In my latest piece for...
Is this the closest I get to Space?
Image via Wikipedia When I was a child, I wanted to be a spaceman. No great surprise there, perhaps, and also no great surprise that I — like so many others — never got to achieve that dream. Still, when the opportunity presented itself to write a space-y piece as my latest contribution over on GigaOM Pro, I jumped...
International Cloud Computing piece for GigaOM Pro
I have been a fan of (and subscriber to) GigaOM‘s analyst site, GigaOM Pro, for some time. As the site’s blurb describes, “All too often, insider analyst research and commentary is costly, inaccessible or ineffective to the entrepreneurs, investors and innovators who need timely insights most. We’re changing this by making high-quality expert reports, data...
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