Clouds, Community Clouds or Managed Services?

Our July issue of Waters magazine has been up on our website for a few days now. This month, I looked at the new "community clouds" that are popping up in the financial services space. Major vendors such as NYSE Technologies and Reuters are layering a number of business applications and data set on top of their offering there by moving the user closer to the data rather than moving the data closer to the user. Is it true cloud computing? I'm not sure. Marketers have done a wonderful job muddying the definition.

Summer Reading

I just finished Annie Jacobsen's history of the Groom Lake, NV facility known as Area 51 on today's commute into the office. Except for the last chapter, which is definitely a shout-out to the ufologist community, Jacobsen presents a well-researched and documented twin history of post-World War II nuclear testing and  airborne reconnaissance programs.

The New Face of Global Exchanges?

Is there room for more global exchange operators?

If you take the recent TMX Group and LSE Group, the respective operators of the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and the venerable London Stock Exchange (LSE), the answer appears to be "no."

I wrote this short opinion piece for my day job on the topic.

Kiwi Jetpack Soars

A New Zealand inventor's jetpack reaches 5,000 ft and safely returns to the ground. But unlike the rocket belt from Goldfinger, this one won't fit in the trunk of your Aston Martin.

Friday Musings

Just a few day-job thoughts on how cloud computing can become a game changer when it comes to computing security.