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Whats hot for 2010? There seems to be a great hunger for finding out what is going to happen in 2010. Having put in such as slow 2009 (albeit the final quarter was very promising for most companies I talked to), people are now desperate for a good 2010, and are obsessed with finding out what the opportunities are going to be. The Forum as you might expect has an opinon on this, so here are our hot topics for 2010: Cord cutting/Price Pressure – this means the on-going trend for consumers shifting...
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It should come as no surprise that security is the 800-pound gorilla in the room of cloud services for the larger companies. I wrote a few months ago ( Cloud Computing: Taking an Holistic View ) that the only way I could see public cloud failing is if there was a big security scare. True to form, at the recent Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, a number of security researchers demonstrated new ways of attacking cloud computing services. Claims were made about how to hack through Amazon's...
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I saw recently that there is speculation that Apple is going to go into competition with PayPal by producing their own multi-purpose payment system. This would allow the iTunes and App store payment system to be applied to a wider range of participating products across the web. I'm not sure why this seems to have been greeted with shock and surprise by the industry. It is after all a logical move to further improve the return on investment they have made, and hints at a future where the enabling...
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DoCoMo have announced their LTE launch plans - 2010. Interesting their comment that they feel they suffered from being an early adopter of 3G and essentially were too far ahead of the mass market. If they hit their 2010 dates, they will be in good company - not too early, not too late - right alongside Verizon and multiple other major players! Also interesting was their statement about viewing LTE as a solution built on top of and co-existing with 3G, rather than an instant replacement. But the most...
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The speed at which Cloud computing has planted its feet firmly in the center stage of the IT and Communications world is quite interesting. It's not a technology play - in fact I would be hard pushed to identify a single piece of new technology that is fundamental to cloud. And unlike Twitter or Facebook it's not a social-psychology phenomenom in any real sense - there is no "man-in-the-street' movement that is driving the uptake or need for cloud computing. It is one of those rare...
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After 20 years of disconnected mobile networks are we finally heading towards a single unified global mobile technology? With the recent unanimity surrounding LTE, perhaps we finally are. Recent research indicates that 26 network operators have committed to LTE deployments, and among these are the biggest global service providers such as Verizon, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, SK Telecom and China Telecom. And if these guys all choose LTE, all the smaller players will have little choice due to the pressures...
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Even during a recession we never seem to have a shortage of 'the next big idea' . And this weeks next big thing seems to be Cloud Computing . The one tiny problem about it, is that nobody seems to know what it means. Or perhaps more correctly, there are as many opinions as experts on this emerging topic. So to add to the confusion let me share my views on this. From a user perspective, cloud computing allows you to gain access to a wide range of computing services from an amorphous cloud...
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