Martin Banks

Parallel gets a Sun shine

Martin Banks — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:03:29 +0000

The race for leadership of parallel processing into the future is now well underway, and there is a chance that Sun Microsystems

Being ready to scale

Martin Banks — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:13:42 +0000

The other week I wrote about the impact of the poor economic situation and the scope for really quite disruptive change in the building blocks of IT infrastructure that might follow as the world gets ready to spring out of the doldrums. It looks as though the IT vendors are gearing up for that eventuality, as new possibilities for inclusion in future infrastructure services are now appearing.

The `Crunch

Martin Banks — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:57:58 +0000

Musing on the state of the economy over the weekend I recalled the comments of AT&T cloud evangelist Joe Weinman who suggested at the recent Structure 08 conference in San Francisco that, when it came to the future of utility computing and `The Cloud

The wait begins for the PSI legacy

Martin Banks — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:40:54 +0000

When it comes to IT, the word `monopoly

`Employee-owned IT

Martin Banks — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:58:06 +0000

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IT needs user-friendly carbon sums

Martin Banks — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:31:47 +0000

The question is: do we need some new metrics and points of reference when it comes to the relationship between IT, its users, and its carbon foot-print?

Microsoft and Racing Cart datacentres

Martin Banks — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:53:22 +0000

I love analogies, and two immediately come to mind following Bill Gates

Waiting for Infrastructure 3.1

Martin Banks — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:49:04 +0000

There are always lessons in history, if we are prepared to learn from them, and I come from the BW (Before Windows) era, a time which does have some things to teach us, I feel.

EMC, the Cloud, and the fog of fear

Martin Banks — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:35:36 +0000

It was good to see both Joe Tucci, EMC chairman, president and chief executive, and Howard Elias, president of EMC

The Parallel Bridge

Martin Banks — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:38:44 +0000

A couple of recent announcements out of IBM once again pose questions about not only the future scope of parallel computing but also the timescale encompassed by that word `future