Working with Friends
Last week I wrote about the value of repeat relationships in the venture capital and private equity business. I used the example of a portfolio company that recently raised capital from a firm we have worked with on a repeat-basis. I intentionally left out the investor’s name as well as the companies knowing that this [...]
THE SOCIAL PHD: 9 Sure Fire Ways to Become a Social Business (Video)
We were able to assemble a powerful cast of experts to give the rest of us advice on becoming a Social Business. But we did it with one catch. We asked these 9 experts to do it in under 60 seconds. Thank you Robert Lavigne for essentially doing all of the video, post production and [...]
Intel Joins Hands With Academia For Cloud Computing Research
Intel (previous CloudAve coverage), the chipmaker with increasing focus on cloud computing, yesterday announced a $30M investment in research on the future of cloud and embedded computing. As a part of this investment, Intel will set up two Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTC) at Carnege Mellon University, a leading research organization in the field of [...]
What is Really Holding the Cloud Back?
As I was listening to speakers at Structure Conference this year, something caught my attention and changed my thinking on cloud priorities. When IT decision makers are asked to rate the top challenges for cloud adoption, security always rises to the top. Security, security, security. At Structure, I heard something slightly different from Microsoft’s Satya [...]
Intel Pushes Open Data Center Alliance
Intel is cheerleading a new alliance of 70 IT customers (with a net spending of $ 50 Billion), vendors and others to develop a vendor agnostic usage roadmap. The new body is called Open Data Center Alliance aims to define how datacenters of the future are to be built. Whether this will define the future [...]
Cloud Computing for All Budgets
Previously we shared the secret to Budget Cloud Storage: Now, here’s the deluxe version of the same concept: (Hat tip: Ben Kepes) P.S. No, it’s not a modified Karrar.
Video: Intel's Single Chip Cloud Computer
Here, at CloudAve, we highlight research leading to future technologies from time to time. Intel has announced an experimental single chip cloud computer. Imagine it to be something like a datacenter in a single chip. We are sharing it here for our readers.
Datacenter In A Processor – The Intel Magic
The chip maker Intel has announced a prototype for a new chip called Single-Chip Cloud Computer, a new prototype for many core computer currently in Intel Labs. It is an Intel Architecture (IA) computing engines integrated on a silicon CPU chip with 48 cores.The conventional wisdom predicts that the processors will stay put with a [...]
CrunchPad, Netbooks and Vacuum Cleaners
We covered the CrunchPad a fair bit here, so it’s only natural to report it’s inching closer to Launch. Or is it rather slipping? The Straits Times visited Fusion Garage, the Singapore-based company that’s developing the CrunchPad, and published details. It’s now expected to hit the market in November, just in time for Christmas shopping. [...]
Intel Relaxes Rules on NetBook Resolution. Next Obstacle is Screen Size
I often spoke up against idiotic screen size / resolution limits that render Netbooks close to useless, yet the de facto industry standard appears to be 1024 x 600. What’s wrong with that? Well, nothing, unless you plan to browse, or in fact interact with web sites, since websites today are designed at a resolution [...]
Screen Size: The Next Plan to Cripple Netbooks in Order to Protect a Dying Market
The proliferation of affordable netbooks is good for everyone – consumers, that is. Computer manufacturers loath it (high volume, low margin business) and so does Microsoft: they can’t exactly sell $100+ worth of software on a $200 machine. So they come up with all sorts of evil plans. First there was the Windows 7 plan: [...]
Sequential Programming is Dead. But it May Just Mean Job Security :-)
Do you have a screaming-fast Quad-core computer? Does it really feel that fast? If not, it’s probably because most applications were not programmed to take advantage of the new architecture. In fact, if you ask the Intel guys, not even the next generation of programmers is well prepared: All major manufactures of CPUs, GPUs and [...]
