Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

By- Bob Landström

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Entries Tagged as 'Disruptors'

What?…A Verizon Wireless iPhone?

March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Business, Disruptors, Wireless

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will be releasing a CDMA version of the iPhone, opening the door for service by Verizon Wireless.
Many in the industry view Verizon Wireless as having the best network of the leading carriers, but AT&T’s lock on the iPhone has been a real ace in the hole.  If Verizon [...]

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Now there’s a THAWT

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Data Center, Data Center MEP, Disruptors, Green Data Center, Green IT

Morgan Stanley plans to power their new data center in Scotland with a new generation of turbine generators called the Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine (THAWT).  The $400M data center will require 150MW of power.  It will be powered initially from the utility grid but later transitioned to power generated by the underwater turbines of [...]

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Yet Another Chrome Article

October 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Disruptors, Technology, Web 2.0

I’ve waited for the dust to settle to log a post about Google’s Chrome, and to do so now almost seems trite since there’s already been so much content in the dialogue about browser wars, IE killers and such.  I do feel compelled to make a few cursory points about Chrome, just for the [...]

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More Thoughts on Container Data Centers

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Disaster Recovery Planning, Disruptors, Technology

In earlier posts and conversations, I’ve mentioned my interest in container data centers and the opportunities they bring for certain types of implementations and use cases.  As a big fan of agility in IT in order to meet the dynamic demands of the Business, containers can be a valuable weapon in the arsenal.
In my conversations [...]

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Computer trained to “read” mind images of words

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Disruptors, Technology

An article appearing today on Reuters describes how researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University’s Machine Learning Department have been experimenting with brain activity related to thinking of words.  The process involves capturing MRI images of a person’s brain as they are shown and asked to think about specific words.  The image captured on the MRI of the [...]

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New Technology Trends Will Impact Traditional IT Roles

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Convergence, Data Center, Disruptors, IS Security, IT Roadmaps, Technology, VoIP

We’ve become fairly comfortable with the structure of our IT organizations, but new trends in technology product development are increasingly challenging these traditional models.
In the traditional (i.e., over the past 10 years or so) IT organization we have roughly aligned the organizational chart with a logical stack corresponding to our data processing footprint. We [...]

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Electronic Contact Lenses

March 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Disruptors

I’ve noticed a few articles in the news about contact lenses that put directly into your field of view things like Heads Up Display functionality, computer screen output, and can potentially deliver things like zoom and night vision capabilities.  A few links to articles are shown below:
 http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205916535
http://www.gizmag.com/electronic-contact-lens-promises-bionic-capabilities-for-everyone/8689/
http://gizmodo.com/346164/electronic-contact-lenses-give-future-you-crazy-eyesight-heads+up-display
There is truly some opportunity for communication acceleration here.  [...]

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