FAA outage reveals odd computing practices (Washington Post)
WASHINGTON -- When a computer glitch at a Federal Aviation Administration center caused widespread airline delays this week, it served as a reminder that the U.S. flight system is waiting for a modernizing overhaul. But it also appears the FAA's management of its existing technologies falls short of standards in other vital sectors.
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Cloud Computing Terminology (SYS-CON Media)
While the debate on the actual definition of cloud computing rages on, it seems that a whole new cloud computing vocabulary is rapidly emerging. I thought I'd list some of the new terms I'm seeing with brief definitions, examples of usage and references to discussions related to these terms. Hope this is useful. read more
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Committee eyes impact fees (Lahontan Valley News)
The Fernley Capital Improvement Advisory Committee took on Wednesday the first steps in rethinking the impact fee process and gaining some consensus among members in terms of what elements of the formula need further scrutiny.
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The Art of Service Leads the Way in New Enterprise Virtualization, SaaS and Cloud Computing Training (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The first of five new courses were this week launched by The Art of Service to complement its existing range of IT Service Management and ITIL courses. The first "2 Day Course: Cloud Computing, Managing Services that are in the Cloud - The ITIL Service Management Way" was delivered to a group of Senior IT Managers who rated the course Very Good to Excellent:
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Knowledge gap in green IT is hampering further adoption (Computing.co.uk)
Angelica Mari and Martin Courtney, Computing , Thursday 28 August 2008 at 05:30:00 IT managers need to realise green IT has reputation as well as environmental benefits Ignorance among UK IT managers and suppliers remains the key obstacle in the adoption of green IT practices. In a survey carried out by the National Computing Centre (NCC) with...
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Computing from the bottom up (CNET)
The IT industry is in a qualitatively different place than it once was. The enterprise architects still have a job to do.
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Psystar: Apple Illegally 'Destroys' Competition, Bricks Mac Clones (InformationWeek)
The upstart Mac cloner claims in an antitrust suit that Steve Jobs and company employ a mix of hype, dubious licensing schemes and technology to dominate the Mac computing environment.
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UCAS figures highlight IT skills problems (Computing.co.uk)
Phil Muncaster, Computing , Friday 29 August 2008 at 17:06:00 Latest stats show the number of school leavers taking computer science degrees is still too low The latest figures from university admissions organisation UCAS are out, and they spell more trouble for the beleaguered IT industry, with students continuing to shun computer science courses in favour... ...
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UPDATED with clarification on Ms. Estrin’s latest company (New York Times)
Judy Estrin, who has built several Silicon Valley companies and was the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, says Silicon Valley is in trouble. In a new book , “Closing the Innovation Gap,” which will be in bookstores Tuesday, she writes that the valley’s problems are symptomatic of a crisis in innovation facing the country as a whole.
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Engineer accidentally deletes cloud (The Register)
Off-demand computing - First Amazon, now FlexiScale Another large cloud is on the fritz.…
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