On 01/20/2012 07:14 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Maybe I'm late to the IT party, but how do you mean that it's going
back to the way it used to be? I've never really experienced (that I
In the old-old days, only the largest institutions could afford computers.
Smaller organizations leased time
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Daniel C.
Could
someone explain to me
what exactly the buzzword cloud computing means, exactly?
Cloud computing is just the scalable externally hosted offering of any
service
On 1/20/2012 4:01 PM, Daniel C. wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jerry Feldmang...@blu.org wrote:
Theoretically, a cloud is a virtual storage device where the actual storage
media should be in several different locations fully mirrored.
I understand the value of backups, and I
On Jan 21, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
someone (and I apologize if this is OT to the thread) explain to me
what exactly the buzzword cloud computing means, exactly?
I'd like to see that explanation myself.
To put it in very charged terms, cloud computing is outsourcing hardware
On 1/20/2012 4:34 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
I see cloud as inherently implying leasing/renting access to other
peoples' equipment. In some sense, it is an extension of
outsourcing. Except you may only outsource pieces of a long chain of
steps rather then the entire system and there is an
http://www.mohawksoft.org/?q=node/86
Does anyone have any comment?
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 13:39, Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
http://www.mohawksoft.org/?q=node/86
i understand the point, but i think it gets back to just using the
most talented people you can find. then again, i'm not one to focus on
labels too much ...
a rose by any
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote:
I think it's a way of saying I hired someone else to do it, with specifics
left to the imagination of whomever hears the statement. For practical
purposes, it's a way of saying Don't hold me accountable for any mistakes
made
Allow me to join your rant Richard, with minor adjustments.
Yes, undoubtedly the word Engineer is easily and cheaply used in the
software and IT world, but some folks in the software world do justify
the title. People that take nothing, or close to nothing and make a
working system out if it .
On 01/20/2012 02:35 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
your data (or your car)
would be held hostage.
Greetings Jerry, list members.
Most of the responses were about cloud services for the corporate, where
in that case (hopefully ) there is some real technical consideration of
the what-ifs.
for the
On Jan 21, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Guy Gold wrote:
Allow me to join your rant Richard, with minor adjustments.
Yes, undoubtedly the word Engineer is easily and cheaply used in the
software and IT world, but some folks in the software world do justify
the title.
Well, no, I don't agree. I'm not
Case in point, this article that just came down through Slashdot:
http://www.digitalbond.com/2012/01/19/project-basecamp-at-s4/
Imagine a highway or building or train or airliner being designed and
constructed to the same standards that these SCADA systems were made. Take it
another step:
Come on guys... I have an ME and have done software engineering as well as
analysis for DoD, etc.. There's a place for both, you need professional
engineers who understand guidelines and procedures, etc, but you also need the
theoretical who are pushing boundaries, teaching the limiting cases
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