Eight year old Marco Calasan from Skopje, Macedonia has been dubbed the Mozart of Computers by local press after becoming the worlds youngest IT Professional when he passed the Microsoft Certified System Administrator exam.
ReadWriteWeb blogger Didjia Davis wrote yesterday about Marko Calasan: Mini Mozart of Computers. After the recent news about changes in the “One Laptop Per Child” program, I am really wondering what Marko thinks about these kinds of approaches to computing…
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An excellent (German) article by BITKOM summarizes business challenges, decision points, and business models of cloud-based solutions. BITKOM segments the “Cloud” space into Software, Platforms, and Infrastructure. While this is all true and good for current business, the Cloud stack looks more like Information, Relationships, Services, Platforms, Infrastructure, and Networks.
Whoever says that storage, hardware and bandwidth are ridiculously cheap by now should try and scale (and keep operating) cloud storage for 500k+ users – or roughly $23k per month for me. While economies of scale benefit ad-based business models, they also exponentially grow your storage costs – in the worst case for things no
Berney Finucane is analyst of the Business Application Research Center (BARC). He is making a clear distinction between Software as a Service (SaaS) and web-based tools – which are not necessarily SaaS. He argues that with SaaS you could reduce server costs. But on the other hand this is an objective for general IT over
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