What the FCC’s Auction Means
Monday, March 24th, 2008What the FCC’s Auction Means
A good wrap up on the 700-megahertz spectrum auction.
Verizon Wireless wins large chunk of 700MHz spectrum
Friday, March 21st, 2008Â Verizon Wireless wins large chunk of 700MHz spectrum
Looks like Verizon has won the coveted $4.7 billion bid for the C block in the recent FCC auction of the 700Mhz spectrum. Google also is a big winner in that they gave the FCC an insurance package that would guarantee a $4.6 billion reserve price if the […]
Trying to Figure Out How to Put a Google In Every Data Center
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Google No. 1 has required many years of work to get up and running, along with millions of dollars of equipment and countless hours of mental toil by some of the computer industry’s brainiest folks.
But Google No. 2 you might be able to build yourself in a spare weekend.
And then I woke Up
Trying to Figure […]
Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z
Thursday, March 20th, 2008I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)
Seven Core Competencies for Third Graders
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I have been working on a white paper called “Seven Core Competencies for Enterprise Innovation” and was recently sidelined by my nine-year-old. He’s fascinated by things like twitter and my blog site and all this weird stuff his dad does. He is constantly trying to get me to explain to him what all these […]
OpenNMS and the Google Summer of Code
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008OpenNMS and the Google Summer of Code
Congrats to Tarus and gang for being a participant in the Google Summer of Code. Now that you have an in over there, maybe you can convince Chris to open up some of that sweet IT management stuff they are running.
Introducing Hypertable - a new open source database project
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Introducing Hypertable - a new open source database project
Of course a distributed database needs a distributed file system, and just as Bigtable has the Google File System and MapReduce, so Hypertable requires a GFS-like file system (Zvents is using Hadoop, but Kosmos or any other file system based on GFS would also be supported by […]
Who gets to be judge and jury #4 - International Mystery
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Journalist Who Exposes U.N. Corruption Disappears From Google
other posts:
Who (Google) Gets to be the Judge and Jury
Who (Google) Gets to be the Judge and Jury #2
Who gets to be judge and jury #3 - Eyes Wide Shut
Who gets to be judge and jury #3 - Eyes Wide Shut
Monday, February 11th, 2008It’s an ugly job but someone (who doesn’t use adwords) has to do it. Here is a good article about the power of the empire we all know as Google.
Google and the Banks: A Fair Comparison?
Interview with IBM’s Steve Mills - Google, SaaS, and some good old Cloud Talk
Friday, February 8th, 2008Â Exec: IBM-Google partnership merges top features
We look at Google as a customer in this sense, they’re a potential customer for our technology. If they build up a more significant delivery capability into businesses, especially small businesses, there might be a business opportunity there for us to work together.
Demystifying Clouds
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
force ma·jeure - noun Etymology: French, superior force
Date: 1883 1 : superior or irresistible force 2 : an event or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled — compare act of god
I’ll admit it: I am caught up in the cloud hype. The caveat, however, is that I truly believe that this […]
Google Tries To Make Yahoo An Offer It Can’t Refuse
Monday, February 4th, 2008Ya got to love this!
Google Tries To Make Yahoo An Offer It Can’t Refuse
700 MHz - Two Winners
Friday, February 1st, 2008Google and Google.
Google’s primary objective in the horse race for the sought-after “C Block” was to ensure that the new FCC rule to make the new spectrum open to all network carriers. Google was instrumental in getting the FCC to write the open network rule into the auction. The rule states that, if […]
700 Mhz - Round 15
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Â C Block action comes to abrupt halt
Analysts have been trying to dissect the action on the C Block, attempting to figure out if the spectrum was luring a single bidder, presumably Internet giant Google Inc., which said prior to the auction that it would bid at least $4.6 billion for C-Block spectrum, or if […]
Don’t tell me that cloud computing is not changing the game.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008When they wanted to find out which part of the the world their customers logged in from, a quick MapReduce job was created and they had the answer within a few hours. Not really possible in your typical ETL system. This switch has changed how they run their business. Stu Hood nicely sums up the […]
Funny Video
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008700 MHz Bids near $8.7B after a dozen rounds
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Bids near $8.7B after a dozen rounds
Google and The Last Mile
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008The FCC started the 700 MHz spectrum radio wave bid last Thursday. Google is one of the active bidders. As of tonight, the bidding action is around $6 billion. The “C” band in the figure below is the hot ticket.
The 700 Mhz spectrum has traditionally been used for UHF television broadcasts, but on […]
A Cloud Naysayer
Monday, January 28th, 2008I posted some comments on a recent article by Robin Harris, Cloud computing - in your dreams.
Who knows who’s right? Here are my comments…
I think the differentiators are virtualization and power consumption. It is virtualization that has turned academic exercises into real business prototypes. I may be wrong but I think the brick and mortar […]
Who (Google) Gets to be the Judge and Jury #2
Monday, January 14th, 2008Another story about the power of Google and why someone should be watching
Banned by Google
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