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Is the Cloud a Key to Sustainability?

May 20, 2009

The MIT Industrial Liaison Program holds an annual conference for its sponsors focused on technology and telecommunications.  This year’s event had excellent breadth, featuring Esther Dyson, the CTO of Blue State Digital (developers of Obama’s online social media platform), the director of MIT’s game development lab in Singapore and several others.  The one presentation that really got me thinking was by the IT Energy Coordinator for MIT’s own infrastructure, Laxmi Rao. Her presentation centered on ...

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The OpenCloud is Hazy

March 31, 2009

The Open Cloud Manifesto effort is admirable.  It seems like a lofty goal but one centered on making this cloud thing better for all (ok, maybe not the vendors).  It also shows most of the major old school players in support – although Dell is not on the list.  As far as the newer players – Google, Amazon, Yahoo – cue the crickets.  However, before they get some serious traction, the Manifesto authors (who are they, ...

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