The Power of the Community – Crowd Sourcing, Open Source and Social Networking

The Power of the Community - Crowd Sourcing, Open Source and Social Networking
  Some years ago, the classic example of community based software was the SETI Project (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu), where sharing computing resources was the key to analyze and digest in parallel hundreds of thousands of data packets obtained from radio telescopes in SETI's network, to finally find a group of patterns robust enough to sustain them as ...

Cloud Computing: A Clear Sky or a Storm Ahead? Part I

Cloud Computing: A Clear Sky or a Storm Ahead? Part I
One incumbent concept that has acquired momentum and is present in several IT departments worldwide is Cloud Computing. It promises ubiquity, Software as a Service (SaaS), implementation agility, fault tolerance & load balancing, capacity on demand, easy outsourced maintenance and low costs as the best promising catch. That looks pretty encouraging and attractive at first ...