World Maritime Day is celebrated every year, on the last Thursday of September. It is founded by the United Nations (UN) in collaboration with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The purpose of it is to bring awareness to the importance of the maritime industry, as it strongly supports the global economy. It also emphasizes the…
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Taking the government to the clouds
CloudPro is reporting how yet another part of the US government has decided to phase their systems to the cloud. In particular it’s the Department of Interior (DoI) which is asking none other than Lockheed Martin to build them the infrastructure which will allow the DoI to move from on-premises solutions to cloud computing. This…
Industry roundup: Business software future and regulations
Here’s another roundup of interesting articles which managed to stand out in our regular following of the industry. (credit) P2P and Video in the workplace? ReadWriteEnterprise provides us with a glimpse of the future when they summarize a report which finds that p2p and video usage of corporate bandwidth is on the increase. What this…
What the cloud doesn’t do doesn’t matter
Much as I can admit to learning and being inspired by reading other people’s rants on the blogosphere, it’s very easy to be disoriented and misguided by certain staff. Case in point this post by Alex Haislip in Techcrunch itself. Alex Haislip’s main premise is that cloud computing only expands and doesn’t make obsolete computing…