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Cloud Computing At The Speed Of The Network
The recently published Technical Report on Cloud Computing from UC Berkeley lists 10 obstacles/opportunities related to cloud computing, of which “Data Transfer Bottleneck” ranks #4. As I…
What You See Is What You "Think" You Get
In his book “Blink,” Malcolm Gladwell writes about “Sensation Transference.” He describes what a beer manufacturer realized when they tried to figure out why their…
Cloud- and Heterogenous Computing Will Stretch Network Performance
As I was browsing through my Google Reader, an article in Network Performance Daily caught my eye. It talks about Gartner’s list of the “10…
Twitter Angels Help You Find A Job
I read about Twitter recently and was wondering how it works. I signed up yesterday and have been exploring how people are using it. From…
What You Create Is What You Love
In his book, “Predictably Irrational,” Dan Ariely describes what he calls the IKEA effect. This concept has been selected as one of Harvard Business Reviews’…
Book Review: "Outliers" – by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell This book, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest, focuses on something completely different from his earlier ones, “The Tipping Point,” and “Blink.”…
Singularity: A New University In The Silicon Valley
Nasa, Google and many technology leaders will lauch a new university in the Silicon Valley this summer “with the goal of preparing the next generation of…
Are FPGAs Ready To Tip ASICs?
This is a question that has been asked many times. A recent statement by Moshe Gavrielov, president and CEO of programmable logic supplier Xilinx Inc., that…
Do You Answer The Question Or The Person Asking?
I just saw this interesting post titled “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance” by Shankar Vedantam from Washington Post’s Department of Human Behavior….