“We are moving into big data, but it’s not because we want to become Google,” he says. “It’s because we are dramatically evolving manufacturing.”
Coining the term “the Industrial Internet” GE are demonstrating the importance of Cloud Computing and Big Data to manufacturers and industrial processes, where a 1% improvement in efficiency offers huge financial rewards,
via Why GE Invented the Industrial Internet | MIT Technology Review.
It’s nice to be cited in IT Pro as well:
London Technology Week: Events highlight cloud, youth employment and more | 2 | IT PRO.
“Will Venters commented: ‘What some businesses want from cloud and what cloud is truly offering are different things.’
He warned of comparing it to current IT in light of history demonstrating that new technologies such as the cloud can often be years ahead of the curve.”
I was interviewed by Enterprise Management 360 at the cloud world forum – the podcast of the interview is now available on their site:
CWF: Will Venters – EM360 PodcastEnterprise Management 360°.
Should I move to cloud or stick to outsourced services? | Cloud Pro.
The CloudPro experts’ panel answers this question…
Another more substantial article based on my Cloud World Forum talk on Ambidexterity. This one quotes quite a lot of my slides’ content and what I said.
Ambidexterity and the 2-speed enterprise software market.
“The gulf between technological progress and technology investment is creating a two-speed enterprise software market. Organizations want to invest in new technology to stay competitive. But at the same time, they fear the disruption that new technology will cause…”
Cloud Pro has written an article based on my talk at the Cloud World Forum earlier this week. The focus of the talk was on the disconnect between cloud as cost-saving and the innovative potential this architectural shift might offer to businesses:
The following is an article about next week’s Cloud World Forum in which I am quoted.
“Big Data is the future of business consumer relationships as businesses, governments, researchers and organizations across all industries attempt to harness burgeoning masses of complex data to advance applications and services. This year’s Cloud World Forum, co-located with Big Data World Congress, looks at how organizations are analysing their Big Data, to make more intelligent personalized choices about their customers and also at the risks Big Data poses….”
Cloud World Forum Rides The Big Data Wave | Cloud Computing Journal.
I saw the above article on a researcher using government-provided research computers to mine BitCoins for personal benefit. I think there are three other crimes going on here:
1) Why are these computers so under-utilised that the researcher can do this?
2) If they are so under-utilised why aren’t they being used for something more economically valuable than bit-coin mining – for example being sold out on a PAYG basis for other researchers….
3) If they really cannot find anything useful for the computer then why aren’t they using them for bit-coin mining and contributing the profit back into the research labs funds… (after covering the increased electricity costs of the mining operation!).
via BBC News – US national agency computers misused to mine bitcoins.
the following is a Q&A I gave as part of my being guest editor of Cloud Pro last week…
Binary Blurring 