It seems that if you are promoting a product or service these days, it’s mandatory to have an associated “Green Story” to back up your proposition. Earning cold hard cash for the benefit of both you and your customer is in some circumstances frowned upon, if there isn’t an ethical eco-friendly angle to your pitch. While [...]
X.400 is a suite of email protocols that are now considered legacy by.. well.. almost everyone. In decades gone by X.400 competed with the SMTP protocol for domination of the email world. The argument was one of performance and reliability (X.400) versus ease of deployment and use (SMTP). SMTP ultimately won this battle as the ease [...]
I can’t really ever see myself being a technology historian, but I do find the development of technology and technology advancements astonishing at times. It’s easy to forget that some years ago, I used to think that my new 20MB hard drive was the bees knees.. “It’s 20MB of Hard Disk Drive, I’ll never need [...]
I recently turned to my long suffering fiancee and requested that she deliver me BaaS (Breakfast As A Service) every morning. The request wasn’t well received, and neither was the long winded explanation about how everything else is available as a service these days, so why not breakfast. Needless to say, I have been making [...]
This article discusses the industry trend to move towards cloud computing services/infrastructure and the possible impact this may have (or have already had) on ongoing grid computing voluntary projects. We will first cover in brief definitions of cloud computing, virtualization and grid computing. Subsequently, we look at possible declines in grid computing processing being caused [...]
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