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A very interesting piece and one that holds a lot of water
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According to the above, it looks like all tech trends will revolve around the Interweb this year then
According to the above, it looks like all tech trends will revolve around the Interweb this year then
Just read at a glance and stuck on MSPs. Sorry if I don't understand this but IT, BYOD are common to me but not this one. Thanks.
Just a guess, but I think it means Major Service Provider. Seems to fit the context.
Acronyms are one of my pet peeves. The military has a staggering number of them, but they know how to use them. They even have an acronym dictionary. IT is a pretty prolific acronym generator too, but the tech press doesn't know how to use them. Acronyms should always be defined before their first use, period. It's simple courtesy to the reader. It's important because there are so many acronyms that it is inevitable some will be reused. Unfortunately it is rare practice in the tech press.
Acronyms are one of my pet peeves. The military has a staggering number of them, but they know how to use them. They even have an acronym dictionary. IT is a pretty prolific acronym generator too, but the tech press doesn't know how to use them. Acronyms should always be defined before their first use, period. It's simple courtesy to the reader. It's important because there are so many acronyms that it is inevitable some will be reused. Unfortunately it is rare practice in the tech press.
While working with the Australian Defence Force as a civilian financial and management specialist in the Royal Australian Air Force I attended lots of conferences for senior staff. At one I encountered a very serious and heated discussion going on between a small group of senior uniform staff and senior civilian staff. It was all over AERs, one side saying they were due in four weeks and the other claiming they were all due six weeks back. After a minute or so I managed to get them to be quite and pointed out that the uniform people were referring to Airmen's Evaluation Reports while the civilians were talking about Additional Estimate Returns - neither group knew about the other's meaning for AER. It was fun to watch the fight at first, but only for a little while, which is why I sorted it out for them. I suspect I may have been one of the few civilians who knew about the RAAF AER as I helped the Base Commander, my immediate boss, complete the ones for the HQ RAAF staff in our office.
Nothing winds me up more than reading an artilce about Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (APPL) etc, etc, etc .... Honestly, we no not need all these acronyms and when someone that truly understands the English language reads them and tells me how they get confused I wonder how it is soem someone with English as a second or third language.
Totally understand and the dislike of having to look up acronyms. When I wrote these, I intended to go back and define them. Point well taken. Thanks for reading it.
The less the government gets involved the better. However, it seems they like to be involved in everything.
Value has always been a force in IT. With the dollar and IT talent shrinking I see doing much with little. It is going to be tough the next 4 years unless you are in a government job. 
We do not need the government regulating the internet. They can't even balance a budget.
We do not need the government regulating the internet. They can't even balance a budget. 
In five years they'd be out of sand. (with proper nods to Milton Friedman)
I understand and accept that techies are not always perfect writers. I am not bothered by grammar errors in blogs such as this as long as I can understand the content. I can usually figure out a writer's intent, but I had to read and reread several parts of this blog because the grammar and punctuation tripped me up.
I will not point out every minor issue with this post, but will point out a few places where the writing got in the way of the message.
Prediction #2 begins with Data centers are consuming more power, more cooling and their density continues to rise, but an organization ability to retrofit or expand the physical space is challenging and not cost effective.
I believe organization ability should be organizations ability. An ability to organize is much different than the ability of an organization. This may seem minor, but it was enough to make me stop and reread a few times.
Prediction #4 also has issues with use of the possessive. The apostrophe is omitted from clouds resilience, which should be clouds resilience.
The following, also from Prediction #4, required several attempts to decipher:
As the cloud provider drive for pricing down to compete with each other and gain market share the cost of driving price down has to be found in some level of corners being cut. Which will lead to more outages.
It could be that cloud provider drive should be cloud providers drive, meaning that multiple cloud providers drive, with drive being a verb.
Perhaps it was intended to be cloud providers drive, with drive being a noun that multiple cloud providers possess (plural and possessive).
I believe the latter to actually be the intended meaning, but only after reading the sentence several times. A comma between As the cloud provider drive for pricing down to compete with each other and gain market share and the cost of driving price down has to be found??? also would have helped me understand the meaning.
Which will lead to more outages, isnt even a complete sentence.
I am not the grammar police or a grammar snob. I am not trying to be a jerk. While I consider myself to be a reasonably good writer, I too make mistakes. It is often difficult for a writer to catch his or her own errors and typos because, as we proofread our own work, we tend to see what we meant to say rather than what we actually wrote. This is why I always have someone else proofread my writing.
This was an interesting piece. I would have enjoyed reading it a lot more if it had been scanned by an editor or proofread by a friend.
Oh my god. That does sound pretty jerky. Maybe I am a bit of a grammar snob. Sorry. I did not have anyone proofread this post. Feel free to point out all my errors. I guess I deserve any criticism for being such a grammar jerk.
I will not point out every minor issue with this post, but will point out a few places where the writing got in the way of the message.
Prediction #2 begins with Data centers are consuming more power, more cooling and their density continues to rise, but an organization ability to retrofit or expand the physical space is challenging and not cost effective.
I believe organization ability should be organizations ability. An ability to organize is much different than the ability of an organization. This may seem minor, but it was enough to make me stop and reread a few times.
Prediction #4 also has issues with use of the possessive. The apostrophe is omitted from clouds resilience, which should be clouds resilience.
The following, also from Prediction #4, required several attempts to decipher:
As the cloud provider drive for pricing down to compete with each other and gain market share the cost of driving price down has to be found in some level of corners being cut. Which will lead to more outages.
It could be that cloud provider drive should be cloud providers drive, meaning that multiple cloud providers drive, with drive being a verb.
Perhaps it was intended to be cloud providers drive, with drive being a noun that multiple cloud providers possess (plural and possessive).
I believe the latter to actually be the intended meaning, but only after reading the sentence several times. A comma between As the cloud provider drive for pricing down to compete with each other and gain market share and the cost of driving price down has to be found??? also would have helped me understand the meaning.
Which will lead to more outages, isnt even a complete sentence.
I am not the grammar police or a grammar snob. I am not trying to be a jerk. While I consider myself to be a reasonably good writer, I too make mistakes. It is often difficult for a writer to catch his or her own errors and typos because, as we proofread our own work, we tend to see what we meant to say rather than what we actually wrote. This is why I always have someone else proofread my writing.
This was an interesting piece. I would have enjoyed reading it a lot more if it had been scanned by an editor or proofread by a friend.
Oh my god. That does sound pretty jerky. Maybe I am a bit of a grammar snob. Sorry. I did not have anyone proofread this post. Feel free to point out all my errors. I guess I deserve any criticism for being such a grammar jerk.
...then you should have deleted, or substantially trimmed, your post! 
it usually best to send them directly to the author. Most articles have a link to e-mail the author.
Predictions 4 & 5 are completely negated with 4 being completely irrelevant because I avoid prediction #1 at all cost.
My responsibility as an IT Support Providor is to advise my clients on Cost Effective Solutions that I am happy with. To do this I have to balance security and uptime against financial outlay and for the SME environment I will not advise any of my clients to put their data out on the internet. The 'cloud' is just another buzzword for shared storage and anything where my clients data and software is not under my control is unacceptable.
Prediction #2 has no relevance to myself or most other IT people I know. However private/hybrid clouds is plainly yet another unnecessary trend.
Predicion #3 IS one that concerns me a great deal. BYOD is bad - very bad and is something I think needs discouragement on most levels. Having been involved with several cases where corporate and private IP has been stolen I think this is an area where caution must be advised.
After writing this I am wondering why I read the article in the first place.
My responsibility as an IT Support Providor is to advise my clients on Cost Effective Solutions that I am happy with. To do this I have to balance security and uptime against financial outlay and for the SME environment I will not advise any of my clients to put their data out on the internet. The 'cloud' is just another buzzword for shared storage and anything where my clients data and software is not under my control is unacceptable.
Prediction #2 has no relevance to myself or most other IT people I know. However private/hybrid clouds is plainly yet another unnecessary trend.
Predicion #3 IS one that concerns me a great deal. BYOD is bad - very bad and is something I think needs discouragement on most levels. Having been involved with several cases where corporate and private IP has been stolen I think this is an area where caution must be advised.
After writing this I am wondering why I read the article in the first place.
That doesn't mean they aren't relevant to others. Not every article is going to apply to the entire audience. You read it because you didn't know in advance that the content wouldn't apply to the way you work. Live and learn.
Predictions can only be based on what we already know. Tomorrow we will learn something new and our predictions will change.
Someone, somewhere will stumble on something that will change everything just like the humble Mosaic browser turned a rather mundane Internet into what we have today. One man, one idea. World changing
Someone, somewhere will stumble on something that will change everything just like the humble Mosaic browser turned a rather mundane Internet into what we have today. One man, one idea. World changing
No, the Presidential imperative is tyranny and a disregard for the Constitution.
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