Significant Technologies Of Next Year

Gartner has announced its annual heads up about technologies/trends to watch out for in the coming year. The list is as below.
1. Green IT
2. Unified communications
3. Business process management
4. Metadata management
5. Virtualization
6. Mashups
7. The web platform
8. Computing fabric
9. Real world web
10. Social software

There’s increasing pressure about being energy efficient and environment friendly in general. This will be significant. Trends are already visible. All initiatives/activities in this area need to be watched closely. There’s also a threat of regulations coming into force sooner or later.

We have been hearing about it quite a lot for some time. Things are happening and its coming closer to widespread use. What newer data types/message types may get included are the security videos too. How that helps is you could look at them to decide the character of retail traffic at a store for example.

Business process management is a clutch of things happening. Mainly so that business processes are understood clearly through modeling as necessary. As the Gartner analyst put it, this may include model-driven development, content and document management, collaboration capabilities, system connectivity, business intelligence activity monitoring and management, rules and systems management.
Metadata management was bound to come along. As ever increasing data is acquired for analysis, it was obvious some for of metadata management would soon be necessary to make managing the underlying data manageable.
Virtualization enters the second generation. Manufacturers are shipping products with necessary middleware along with the OS. Virtualization becomes even more important in that one could mirror the production system for disaster recovery.
Mashups or combining things from multiple websites is going to be increasingly important. Building the capability of a service so that mashups can be created easily will become increasingly important. In the same manner the web as the platform is going to be increasingly visible too. Meaning you would use, create web services increasingly too.
Memory, processors, I/O becomes part of a fabric, that can combine/share these resources as required would be an improvement on the current structure of data centres.

Computing experience possible through the ever present mobile devices is what has come to be known as the real-world web. Thanks to this information availability one could locate a range of information; be it travel information or even where to locate a piece of grocery on the shelves of a store.

And then finally the social software. Podcasts, blogs, wikis are all the tools of this particular area that fosters social networking. Well, your individual priority for the coming year could be different, do keep an eye open for what’s happening in these areas!

Significant Technologies Of Next Year

Gartner has announced its annual heads up about technologies/trends to watch out for in the coming year. The list is as below.
1. Green IT
2. Unified communications
3. Business process management
4. Metadata management
5. Virtualization
6. Mashups
7. The web platform
8. Computing fabric
9. Real world web
10. Social software

There’s increasing pressure about being energy efficient and environment friendly in general. This will be significant. Trends are already visible. All initiatives/activities in this area need to be watched closely. There’s also a threat of regulations coming into force sooner or later.

We have been hearing about it quite a lot for some time. Things are happening and its coming closer to widespread use. What newer data types/message types may get included are the security videos too. How that helps is you could look at them to decide the character of retail traffic at a store for example.

Business process management is a clutch of things happening. Mainly so that business processes are understood clearly through modeling as necessary. As the Gartner analyst put it, this may include model-driven development, content and document management, collaboration capabilities, system connectivity, business intelligence activity monitoring and management, rules and systems management.
Metadata management was bound to come along. As ever increasing data is acquired for analysis, it was obvious some for of metadata management would soon be necessary to make managing the underlying data manageable.
Virtualization enters the second generation. Manufacturers are shipping products with necessary middleware along with the OS. Virtualization becomes even more important in that one could mirror the production system for disaster recovery.
Mashups or combining things from multiple websites is going to be increasingly important. Building the capability of a service so that mashups can be created easily will become increasingly important. In the same manner the web as the platform is going to be increasingly visible too. Meaning you would use, create web services increasingly too.
Memory, processors, I/O becomes part of a fabric, that can combine/share these resources as required would be an improvement on the current structure of data centres.

Computing experience possible through the ever present mobile devices is what has come to be known as the real-world web. Thanks to this information availability one could locate a range of information; be it travel information or even where to locate a piece of grocery on the shelves of a store.

And then finally the social software. Podcasts, blogs, wikis are all the tools of this particular area that fosters social networking. Well, your individual priority for the coming year could be different, do kep an eye open for what’s happening n these areas!

AMD Quad cores

AMD announced their quad core processor versions end of last month. There are some nine versions introduced positioned for the server market. These versions operate around the 2 GHz mark and operate at under 100watt power budget. That should mean some competition for Intel!!

Downgrade Rather Than Upgrade!!!!

Microsoft is obviously pushing Windows Vista very hard. Vista Business and Ultimate versions must be the ultimate in Vista flavors on offer. Then how come MS is making it easy for business users to downgrade to known and dependable XP flavor of the last generation of Windows family!

MS is making it easy for PC box shippers with prepackaged Vista PC's to ship XP discs along with the sytem. They are preactivated, i.e even a call to support to get an activation code would be necessary.Apparently the EULA, end user license agreement has always had that provision. Fujitsu has been the most aggressive among the box movers so far. now others are going to do it too.

Is it just resistance to change? Does not look like though. Looks more like an attempt by enterprises to stick with an old faithful. So what's at stake here! Is it that Vista would need more training time? Or there are reliability, availability related issues? Who knows! Only thing one could be sure of is that MS is being pragmatic about it, though the expected protestation that this does not mean any admission that Vista has any shortcoming is being repeated.

Interesting 64 core Processors

Sun recently announced the T2 CPU. It has 8 cores, each capable of running 8 threads simultaneously. That’s like 64 processing threads running in parallel! All that happens with only 95W energy consumption!! That translates into a awesome processing power in servers helped my Solaris that makes development easier.
Now if we had a true 64 core processor that worked for less than 20 watts!! Hat would be amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
Tilera announced recently that they have such a chip called the Tile 64. Please read detailed story here. One of the major problems with multi core chips( I have blooged about this before) is the main system bus on the chip which starts to saturate with data flow despite multi level caches in the architecture. Tilera claims that they have overcome this problem so that truly massively parallel chips would now be possible. CPU cores in the Tile 64 chip exchange data through a mesh architecture and no such bottleneck exists. A switching matrix interconnects processors and there are separate memory controllers.


The Tile 64 processor has a RISC architecture and offered at clock speeds of 600 MHz and 1GHz speeds. He switches can transmit data to 4 of its neighbors at 500 Gbps rates. These processors are positioned for usage in routers, switches, appliances, video conferencing and Set top boxes.

crossroads

Life has a strange way of bringing you down to some crossroads when you have to decide the direction you want to take from then on. I am at one such. Having reached 60 years of age I am at a traditional point one retires from professional life. I am just out of an assignment and could easily take that path.

I do, however, feel I have quite a mileage left still. I have always wanted to teach. My father and grandfathers have been teachers, may be that's why. Maybe I understand things well and then love to explain that to others! I have found that to be true all along my student days as well as during my professional life.

During student years loved to lead informal study groups that always formed. Similarly jumped at an opportunity to train others whenever such opportunities arose during working years. I really, truly enjoyed the experience too. So why not!!

teragrid the superpowered supercomputing grid

National center for supercomputing associations announced a super powered computing grid. While 280 teraflops of computing power and 20 petabytes of storage is impressive, it is the user interface that is supposed to be the crucial element for users.

Is anyone going to need more computing power! Well, it is always an application coming along that needs more resources than is available and thus catching up with all the available resources. It has happened always in computing history and I'm sure it is going to happen soon on this "teragrid" too. Until then it'll make the life of researchers in advanced areas easier quite a bit.