The United States has now elected a President who has pledged universal broadband. On almost the same day, AT&T announced it would be following some of its fellow network operators into trialing metered broadband. Broadband caps have been much more common in Europe, but the trend there is away from caps, not towards them. Caps [...]
Archives for November, 2008
The broadband-caps disaster
by Lydia Leong | November 9, 2008 | 2 Comments
User or community competence curve
by Lydia Leong | November 4, 2008 | Comments Off
I was pondering cloud application patterns today, and the following half-formed thought occurred to me: All new technologies go through some kind of competence curve — where they are on it determines the aggregate community knowledge of that technology, and the likely starting point for a new user adopting that technology. This might not entirely [...]
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Cloud enables offshoring
by Lydia Leong | November 3, 2008 | Comments Off
The United States is a hotbed of cloud innovation and adoption, but cloud is also going to be a massive enabler of the offshoring of IT operations. Peter Laird (an architect at Oracle) had an interesting blog post about a month ago on cloud computing mindshare across geographies, analyzing traffic to his blog. And Pew [...]
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Does architecture matter?
by Lydia Leong | November 1, 2008 | Comments Off
A friend of mine, upon reading my post on the cloud skills shift, commented that he thought that the role of the IT systems architect was actually diminishing in the enterprise. (He’s an architect at a media company.) His reasoning was simple: Hardware has become so cheap that IT managers no longer want to spend [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, people
