Tag: cloud computing

How 2018 Software is Different From 2004

by on July 12, 2018 1:22 pm
During her presentation to class on Friday, Jetlore’s COO Montse Medina shared the story of how Jetlore got started, and specifically how software in 2018 is different from 2008. Her startup story remind me of my own. In 2004, I co-founded CollectiveTrust Solutions to develop anti-phishing technologies. I was coming off of five years building… Read more How 2018 Software is Different From 2004

Hybrid Environment: Bridge between Public and Private Cloud Computing

by on July 12, 2018 10:28 am
This week’s guest speaker Dean Paron, a veteran of Microsoft, talked about Microsoft’s public cloud computing service, Azure. During the class, he presented a few case studies. The first was an NGO called Urban Refuge that created a mobile app to locate refugees in urban areas using Azure’s public cloud computing service. Another was a… Read more Hybrid Environment: Bridge between Public and Private Cloud Computing

The Future of Retail may be in the Cloud

by on July 11, 2018 8:58 pm
The retail industry has transformed significantly over the past few decades, and retailers are starting to understand that they cannot simply rely on traditional brick-and-mortar strategies. McKinsey consultant Stefan Niemeier explains, “[Business technology] will be a major change for traditional store-based retail. Consider a big-box format with a 35 percent gross margin and 3 percent… Read more The Future of Retail may be in the Cloud

How cloud computing contributes to autonomous driving - a thought experiment.

by on July 11, 2018 6:41 pm
During his guest lecture at Stanford University, Dean Paron (Microsoft Azure) mentioned a fascinating argument about the importance of cloud computing which stayed present in my mind until now: The amount of data generated by an autonomous car is so high that cloud computing is one of the enablement factors which make autonomous driving in… Read more How cloud computing contributes to autonomous driving - a thought experiment.

The Leverage of Bare Metal for Oracle Cloud

by on July 11, 2018 2:47 pm
On year 2016, Oracle announced its Bare Metal Cloud as the company’s next-generation offering. Later Bare Metal Cloud got renamed into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), to be differentiated from Oracle’s existing 1st generation of cloud service offering, which is called Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic (OCI-C). Since then, OCI is under heavy development by talents acquired from other top cloud… Read more The Leverage of Bare Metal for Oracle Cloud

Microsoft's New Age of Cloud Computing

by on July 11, 2018 11:17 am
During Dean Parson’s talk on Azure last Friday, he showed a video demonstrating “the evolution of Microsoft.” I was expecting to hear about Microsoft’s shift towards cloud computing under CEO Satya Nadella’s direction. Instead we watched a circa 1990s video about Microsoft’s technology, which showed by contrast how advanced our technology is today. Before showing… Read more Microsoft's New Age of Cloud Computing

Amazon’s Cloud Computing

by on July 9, 2018 3:56 pm
Amazon’s cloud services were created in 2006 as a side project, but as of 2016 made $10B of revenue, holding 30% of the cloud marketspace [1]. The origins of their cloud business goes back to the early 2000s when they wanted to create a service called Merchant.com to help brick and mortar companies like Target… Read more Amazon’s Cloud Computing

The Peer-to-Peer Revolution

by on July 8, 2018 5:36 pm
Companies with cloud computing services like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Salesforce are getting a massive head start on what the future of the marketplace will be. These big players are the fuel feeding the fire of the share economy where players like Airbnb, Parking Panda, and Rover thrive. To put it… Read more The Peer-to-Peer Revolution

Would Artificial Intelligence threaten human progress?

by on July 8, 2018 1:40 pm
Many people argue that the evolution of AI would inevitably lead to the downfall of man – it’s inventors.  In contrast to the natural inherent intelligence as portrayed by humans and other animals artificial intelligence is that which is demonstrated by machines through software’s that are designed by humans to process tasks and services that… Read more Would Artificial Intelligence threaten human progress?

Cloud Computing

by on August 6, 2017 11:32 pm
Cloud computing involves the provision of shared internet-based computer services to other computers and devices. It denotes servicing of multiple computing services such as storage and servers to computers under minimal management. Cloud computing technology has been significant in the access and storage of data in companies through a clandestinely held cloud, or third party.… Read more Cloud Computing