We’ve all heard of the KISS principle, right? Keep It Simple, Stupid. It can apply to many areas of life, as I’m sure we’ve all seen. When you make things overly complicated, it just introduces more places for things to go wrong.
I was reminded of this while working at a client’s site last week. The [...]
Web 2.0 brought us social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, as well as popularizing blogs like this one. It was a dramatic shift in thinking about the interweb, changing it from being a tool to being a place to play.
Web 2.1 expanded on that functionality by adding mashups, web-based applications like Google Docs, and [...]
As promised, I want to talk about commodity computing this week. What it is, how it affects you, and how it relates to utility computing.
So let’s get straight to it, shall we?
This week I want to take a look at one of the buzz-phrases that’s sometimes bandied about by computer types – utility computing. It’s an idea that’s generated a lot of interest in the past year or so, and I can understand why. The Wikipedia has an item on utility computing, but it’s a bit [...]
A while back I commented on how Microsoft had an article dedicated to teaching IT bosses how to convince business managers that Vista is practically a required upgrade. Well it gets better. Witness the true power of the Internet.
The Microsoft Australia site is running a contest called Fact or Fiction. And you, the intrepid in-house [...]
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What is worth to have your business stop, because of a computer or systems failure? Let’s take a quick look at what it can mean when your [...]