Link Collection – August 13, 2011

• It’s official: ‘Cloud computing’ is now meaningless | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld

  Dave was inspired by our recent podcast:

  “…yet another Gartner hype cycle report is now out. You can expect to see its accompanying graphic (below) used in every vendor’s presentation from now on. (There must be a law or something.)”

  tags: linthicum cloudcomputing

• CloudCamp Boston @ OpenStack, Oct 6, 2011

  CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.

  tags: boston cloudcomputing

• Schumpeter: Think different | The Economist

  “Mr Christensen and his colleagues list five habits of mind that characterise disruptive innovators: associating, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Innovators excel at connecting seemingly unconnected things…”

  tags: innovation economist clay-christensen

• Twitter to open source Hadoop-like tool — Cloud Computing News

  Twitter retains BackType’s plan to open source Storm. “Twitter says it is planning to open source Storm, its Hadoop-like real-time data processing tool.”

  tags: Twitter storm streamprocessing cep

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