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The Story No One Cares About: PC Sales at lowest number since 2007

CTOvision

The analyst firm IDC reports that worldwide PC shipments in 2015 were about 300 million units, on par with 2007 numbers. We recommend tracking the trends and building projections along these lines of analysis: Cloud Computing : The efficiencies of this new architecture are driving compute costs down. Bob Gourley.

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Fountainhead: Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My!

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My! I thought you were a Cloud guy?" and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing Didnt). Somewhere around 2007, OS virtualization began to go mainstream. And its value proposition was simple and uncomplicated: Consolidate applications, reduce hardware sprawl. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Real-World Financial Services Cloud

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Real-World Financial Services Cloud. Cloud computing has been made very real today. Its essentially a high-performance, low-latency, special-purpose cloud IaaS, replete with customers and roadmap. Cloud is highly secure : Ditto to above.

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. Fountainhead. Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

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Social TV platform Scener adds Hulu’s David Baron as CEO and filmmaker J.J. Abrams as investor

GeekWire

Baron helped launch Hulu in 2007 and spent 14 years at that streaming service. (Photo via Scener). Scener , the Seattle-based startup that adds a social layer to the viewing of streaming television content, has named David Baron as CEO. The company also announced a new team of investors and advisors, including J.J.

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Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. This approach to providing software for hardware partners to sell their own machines created a huge platform for Microsoft. Windows Vista (2007). With Windows 1.0, Windows 95 (1995).

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