Couch Computing: A Dummy’s Guide
It’s a Friday night. I am perched on a cozy corner of my couch, wine on one hand, my smartphone on the other. The smart […]
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Business & Technology: The Dance of the Decade
It has been said that the 2nd decade of a century brings about change at an accelerated pace. So I scurried, looking for evidence. The […]
Parlez-vous PaaS?
Several years ago I visited Parfumerie Gallimard in Grasse, France. Grasse is famous as the perfume capital of the world and Gallimard is the 2nd […]
Technology Meets Spirituality
Over the history of humans, there are instances where one set of people mistook another for gods. Much disputed accounts exist of Hernan Cortez being […]
Anatomy of the Virtual Social Network
In previous posts on utilities, I talked about the evolution of common utilities like water, gas, electricity, and lately computers (Part I), and utilities that connect […]
Utilities: Water & Computers
A few years ago we were traveling in Portugal and passed through a beautiful town called Óbidos in central Portugal. Óbidos, an old Roman settlement, […]
Prefabricated IT Stack
Lately I have been reflecting on how consumption of technology is shifting from products to services, enabled by a utility business model. I referred to […]
Business Models: Cloud & Consumption
In Part I of this series of posts on business models, on whether we have new business models in the Information Technology sector, we looked at […]
Business Models: Bezos vs Jobs
It is rare for a work day to go by for me without a conversation that includes the phrase new business models. That phrase is […]
Virtual Private Cloud: Point of Arrival
It is fascinating to see how a confluence of technologies result in new concepts that subsequently become the foundation for the next technological evolution. That […]