Tim Negris

When the US Government came for file sharing domains, I remained silent; I was not a file sharer. When they shut down Torrent Finder, I remained silent; I was not a Bit Torrent user. When they pressured Amazon to shut down WikiLeaks, I did not speak out; I was not a leaker. When they passed the COICA bill, I remained silent; I wasn't an infringer or counterfeiter. When they came for my domain, there was no one left to speak out. ... (more)

Wyse PocketCloud is "Freakin' Amazing"

So often technology products don't live up to their hype, but it is considerably rarer where it is the other way around.  You know the all-to-familiar scenario of the former.  You read about a new smartphone app, say.  It sounds amazing; you have to have it; you wonder how you have lived without it.  Then, you look it up on the Apple App Store or Android Market and the misgivings start.  Maybe the summary text is unclear or the user ratings aren't great.  But you are smitten enough to look past that and install it anyway, especially if it is free.  Not everybody is a great writ... (more)

Hadoop is the Answer! What is the Question?

Disclosure: In addition to being a Sys-Con contributor, I am the VP of Marketing at 1010data, a provider of a cloud-based Big Data analytics platform that provides direct, interactive analytical access to large amounts of raw structured and semi-structured data for quantitative analysts. So, 1010data doesn't have much actual overlap with Hadoop, which provides programmatic batch job access to linked content files for text, log and social graph data analytics.  I must confess, I have not been paying much attention to Hadoop. But, while doing research for my upcoming presentation o... (more)

AT&T CEO: Cloud Is "Very, Very Important To Us" - And It's Just Like Outsourcing

In an outtake from a sweeping interview in the Sunday edition of the Dallas Morning News, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson tipped his hand just a bit, providing a peek at where the telecom giant might be headed with cloud computing and more than a peek at what might follow the end of AT&T's iPhone exclusivity - hint: it starts with "A" and ends with "ndroid". These days, every telecom carrier has a cloud angle.  Within the past week, we have seen cloud computing announcements from Verizon in the US and SingTel in Singapore, with many more to come, no doubt.  (For an interesting persp... (more)

Public Cloud Computing: Enabling the Elastic Enterprise

Sometimes the results of a Google search can be most enlightening for what they don't show.  For instance, I was wondering about the differences between private and public cloud computing in terms the strategic business benefits of each, so I did a Google search that looked like this: As you can see, that search only returned 24 results, and ten of those were duplicates!   Not only is 14 a surprisingly tiny number, but about half of those were cases where the two phrases happened to occur on the same page with no semantic relationship between them, and the remainder all expressed... (more)