George Zachary is a partner at Charles River Ventures, and at the recent TechCrunch Cloud Computing Summit, he said, “Cloud is the new dotcom”. This statement has inspired a variety of responses, but one I’d like to highlight is Reuven Cohen’s. Reuven is the Founder of Enomaly, a company that makes a software product designed [...]
So, I apologize upfront for the title, but I couldn’t resist. Plura Processing came to my attention through my participation in the Cloud Computing Form as someone with a genuinely interesting idea – harvesting browser time spent on websites to process compute cycles on behalf of third-parties.
Hu Yoshida, the CTO at Hitachi Data Systems, has a blog post up outlining his IT predictions for 2009. Some of them are fairly uncontroversial (midrange storage will continue to get more high-end features, people will spend less money buying new storage, more money on managing it more efficiently, etc.), but there’s one I find [...]