Month: February 2013
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Dark clouds on the horizon?
To punctuate my previous two posts on cloud solutions, CIO Magazine offers up this observation: Unfortunately, too often cloud applications and services are bought by people who really shouldn’t be buying. Sure, they may have the budget … but that doesn’t mean they necessarily have the training to make good IT decisions, let alone the…
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Java – What, me worry?
There’s an interesting article today on THE VERGE. Joshua Kopstein poses the question “Why won’t Java just go away?” That leads to our question: “What is Java, and do I need to worry about it?” Java is present on many PCs – Windows, Mac and Linux. It’s a both a programming language and an application…
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Cloud for Small Business – Hot nor Not?
Last week I offered Rodney Roger’s perspective on the place of cloud computing in the enterprise. His premise, with which I completely agree, is that current “enterprise” cloud offerings lack the breadth and depth of on-premise systems. To paraphrase him, Salesforce and Workday are not ERP. He’s absolutely right. He also points to emerging cloud…
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Cloud: sexy – Enterprise: not so much
I read this article several weeks ago. I’ve pondered it. I’ve read it over again. Here’s a quote: If you unnaturally extend or generalize cloud solutions to me, or if you pontificate cloud idealisms without providing tangible platforms that can service what I am, then you waste my time. When you waste my time, I…
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The Simple IT blog has moved!
Good evening everyone. As part of an overall effort to streamline my professional infrastructure, I’ve moved this blog to a new home on Blogger. All my previous posts have been relocated; unfortunately your comments were not 🙁 WordPress.com has been great. It offers a whole lot in terms of features and capability. But that’s not…
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Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty in space: 7th-grader’s science fair project. Successful launch, ascent, descent and recovery. Watch the video here. Read the story here.
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Interlude
The view from the beach in Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Everyone needs to get away now and then. Actually we were in PR for our son’s wedding. We had a great time, enjoyed meeting new friends and seeing family. We had some wonderful meals too. The ceremony and reception went off without a hitch…