SAP’s Gravity Prototype: Business Collaboration Using Google Wave
Alexander Dreiling of SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia, has posted on a great prototype called Gravity that uses Google Wave to collaborate around business process. Gravity is a Google Wave “gadget” that can be added within the Google Wave client. It lets participants in a wave use the business process modeling functionality of SAP Business [...]
Can you Become Agile, When Managing Projects the Top-Down Style?
I posted on enterprise agility before, but recently I came across some very interesting research data, so I decided to give this topic a different angle, taking the present economic conditions into consideration. The ups and downs of our economy are enough to make any executive dizzy. Just look at U.S. Steel (X). In the [...]
Scientists And Cloud Computing – Part 1
Again and again in this space, I have pushed the idea of scientific community tapping into Cloud Computing for their academic research. I have argued that it will save tons of money and time for the scientists. Of late, we are hearing many success stories about scientists and other academics tapping into the Clouds for their research. In this [...]
Yahoo Thrusts Itself Further Into Cloud Computing Research
Image by Yodel Anecdotal via Flickr Yahoo has been pretty active on Cloud Computing research. They are the biggest contributors to Hadoop, which is fast becoming a significant player as an enabler of Cloud Computing. They have played a significant role in the development of Pig, a high level language for Hadoop. Apart from these development efforts, [...]
Academic Research On Cloud Computing Gets Funded
According to HPC Wire, San Diego Supercomputer Center is getting funded by NSF for research on Cloud Computing. Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore new ways for academic researchers to manage extremely large data sets [...]
Do We Need A National Computing Cloud?
Image via Wikipedia Recently, William Hurley, on his Infoworld blog, wrote an open letter to President Obama asking him to create a government funded National Computing Cloud. I propose you create a government-funded computing cloud for use by all colleges and universities. Such a resource would level the academic playing field. Researchers toiling at thousands [...]
