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10 Jul 09

Google’s Operating System to Challenge Microsoft - NYTimes.com

  • “We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the Web in a few seconds,”
  • The plan is part of Google’s bet that a huge shift in computing is under way. In Google’s view, Web connections will become so fast and browsers so powerful that most of the programs that currently run on PCs will be replaced by online applications. That would eliminate the need to install, upgrade and back up software.
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02 Jul 09

Michael Cross on the digital challenges facing public services | Technology | The Guardian

  • Take Tower Hamlets PCT, in east London. GPs hold their patients' records on the Emis system, developed by GPs as part of a cottage industry that flourished in the 1990s. Under the NHS national programme for IT, however, chiropodists, physiotherapists and other community staff were expected to use a standard system called Rio, being implemented across London by the capital's prime contractor, BT. In fact, Tower Hamlets has rebelled. To support a borough-wide campaign aimed mainly at tackling diabetes, it needed a single information system. It decided to standardise on a new version of Emis software on the web. It will be available not just to GPs and community nurses, but to diabetes consultants in the local acute hospital which (of course) has its own separate taxonomy of systems. Although on the same system, different professions will have their own distinct view of the records, always subject to consent.
  • Tower Hamlets isn't rejecting the central NHS programme - the PCT still depends on central services such as population registers and centrally procured broadband. But its decision to go its own way with patient-record software, and to share information within a "natural community" rather than nationwide, is a challenge to the programme's ethos.
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13 May 09

Where is the cloud? Geography, economics, environment, and jurisdiction in cloud computing

  • Cloud computing – the creation of large data centers that can be dynamically provisioned, configured, and reconfigured to deliver services in a scalable manner – places enormous capacity and power in the hands of users. As an emerging new technology, however, cloud computing also raises significant questions about resources, economics, the environment, and the law. Many of these questions relate to geographical considerations related to the data centers that underlie the clouds: physical location, available resources, and jurisdiction. While the metaphor of the cloud evokes images of dispersion, cloud computing actually represents centralization of information and computing resources in data centers, raising the specter of the potential for corporate or government control over information if there is insufficient consideration of these geographical issues, especially jurisdiction. This paper explores the interrelationships between the geography of cloud computing, its users, its providers, and governments.
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