Cloud computing is taking up more and more space on my virtual radar at the moment. Implementing an actual project on a commercial distributed virtualised platform is becoming a high priority for my scant spare time. It’s nice to see that the cloud market is beginning to mature, with increasingly diverse offerings and even price reductions.
Alan Williamson provides a handy calculator for calculating your cloud storage costs.
The self-organizing, collective responsibility aspect of agile teams is sometimes hard for a hierarchical organization to get to grips with. Sriram Narayan notes a great response to the common question “who do you report to?”
For years Frank Carver has been paying attention to the strange world of convergent technology. During that time he has discussed and researched broad subject areas, come to some surprising conclusions, produced and distributed digital media, scattered ideas and opinions like sparks from a firework, and above all consulted for businesses both large and small to help develop and deploy successful systems, services, and products in this highly complex arena.
