Entries by Bob McIlvride

Is Your Country Cloud-Ready?

Just as the clouds in the sky have no geographic limits and glide over all borders, we might hope that cloud computing would also be an international phenomenon…

Smart Computing in Real Time

What could “smart computing” possibly mean? How do computers get smart? And what does smart computing have to do with real-time cloud computing, if anything?

Sidestepping Delays

The Beer Game illustrates an interesting similarity between business systems and industrial processes, and suggests to me how real-time data cloud services may be able to help business sidestep costly delays.

Data-Powered Forecasting

Connecting to the cloud provides more depth and reach for forecasting systems, as hard data and empirical evidence become more readily available, and up-to-the-second.

Cloud Economics 5: Data on Tap

An analogy of purchasing a cup of coffee explains some of the factors that go into providing faster, and therefore more valuable, cloud services. What is the real-time approach?