I'm curious. Who is leading the way toward cloud computing?
International Business Machines (IBM).
Four hundred million is not loose change and IBM is planning cloud computing centers in the US and Japan according to their website. Additionally, IBM will spend $360M in the US in order to build a state-of-the-art data center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Cloud computing according to the new's article, IBM expands its cloud computing, is more than the normal evolution of a data center.
Intel.
Arti Gupta, Intel Software Network Blogs, The Web in 2020 - Where do you think it will be? illuminated several key trends for example, information technology (IT) is moving toward fundamental change as cloud computing begins maturing in the forthcoming years; online communities will continue growing; and mobile device usage will out grow the personal computer. Will cloud computing influence ham radio in the future? Absolutely.
Hewlett Packard (HP).
I found this quote of particular interest, "The Social Computing Lab focuses on methods for harvesting the collective intelligence of groups of people in order to realize greater value from the interaction between users and information."
Check out HP's dynamic cloud services if one is interested and curious.
HP is beta testing CloudPrint which allows one to share, print, and store documents using your mobile phone.
Tomorrow.
Research and development dollars are moving toward cloud computing and one might say, "Cloud computing is sunrise technology." Additionally, the trend toward 2020 is the cloud, mobile phones, and social networking according to Arti Gupta at Intel. Lastly, HP is already moving in that direction and offering a beta service called CloudPrint.
Perhaps, in the future, RadioSport logging will take place in the cloud thus the need for log checking software will be a thing of the past. Furthermore, evolving technology perhaps will make packet-like spotting networks difficult to control, as ham radio operators spot stations via services like Twitter or via mobile phone text messaging. The definition of assisted category will continue to blur as cloud computing confounds the sponsors. Likewise, let's consider the UK team at DXAnywhere, as they work out a DX alert system that notifies your mobile phone.
73 from the shackadelic.
Low-power, Low-profile RadioSport contesting at 50-watts took a giant organizational step. I worked out the ergonomics for the station and purchased a pair of saw horses ($32) and a door ($18) for a $50 total. My operating space expanded and my budget is still intact. The idea is to begin building around my Dell Dimension 2350 powered by a Pentium 4 microprocessor with hyper-threading (HT) technology. HT technology as stated on the Intel web page, "...[Y]ou get thread-level parallelism on each processor resulting in more efficient use of processor resources–higher processing throughput–and improved performance on today's multithreaded software." 73 from the shackadelic.
