http://carterthoughts.com Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:32:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I presented this slide deck to the DMTF Cloud Security working group concerning cloud Identity, Policy, Compliance, etc. Only my thoughts and comments are in the recording. http://carterthoughts.com/?p=47 Policy and Identity are foundation technologies enabling the future of collaborative computing. More and more infrastructures will be deployed “in the cloud” and will not have the traditional IT constraints and overhead to govern the use and access to resources. Rather, policies will be expressed and identity used by those ... http://carterthoughts.com/?p=41 The future of networked collaboration looks bright. Faster networks, bigger disks, and multi-core processors all act synergistically to make possible collaboration without boundaries. I spent a lot of time on this subject during the development of the Fossa Project (announced by Novell several weeks ago). More local storage that can ... http://carterthoughts.com/?p=40 These last eight weeks have been very intense, but very rewarding at the same time. I've been working with some of the best at Novell to articulate Novell's technical vision through 2012. Thinking that far ahead has been very entertaining and thought provoking. We'll be talking about the vision at Brainshare ... http://carterthoughts.com/?p=37 Matt Asay in his blog entry declares Red Hat the winner and Novell the loser (see this) with this statement: ". . . leaves two clear victors in the Linux camp: Red Hat and Ubuntu. While Novell capitulated to Microsoft's early demands for a patent stooge, Red Hat and Ubuntu stood firm." This because ... http://carterthoughts.com/?p=39 The future is really shaping up. Consumer's now have access to hardware that previously was affordable only by the enterprise data center or by serious gaming people (who seem to be able to afford much more than the average computer user). ♦ 4-core systems with 3GB of memory and 1 TB ... http://carterthoughts.com/?p=29 One of my life's fascinations involves plumbing the depths of the Mandelbrot fractal via Ultra Fractal by Frederik Slijkerman (http://www.ultrafractal.com/). The combination of infinite variety and engaging artistic presentation ... http://carterthoughts.com/?p=32 I added a page to show a few of my photos and fractal art (coming soon). Enjoy! http://carterthoughts.com/?p=28 . . . that, in order to be socially acceptable, you have to be a friend on Facebook, a follower on Twitter, have a web of contacts on LinkedIn, be a trusted contact on Spock, etc., etc.? And, to be one of the many personas in these societies you must ... http://carterthoughts.com/?p=24 Well, it appears that I'm up and going again. Sorry for the protracted pause between my last post and this one. A tragedy involving a family member and cancer first derailed my blogging and then, as those of you who blog know, it is all too easy to forget to ... http://carterthoughts.com/?p=23