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About Bob McIlvride

Bob McIlvride is the Director of Communications at Skkynet, as well as Communications Manager at Cogent Real-Time Systems, and is responsible for writing and editing technical documentation and marketing communications, as well as keeping in touch with sales partners and customers. He has a Master’s degree in Professional Writing, and 25 years experience writing and publishing in the natural gas and process control industries. He has lived on three continents, speaks three languages, and considers the whole world as his home.

Entries by Bob McIlvride

Cloud Economics 2: Definitions

by Bob McIlvride

Joe Weinman chooses to define the concept of “cloud” in cloud computing in a way that brings out five essential attributes that are common to other cloud-like systems in business and life in general.

Cloud Economics 1: A Vision

by Bob McIlvride

I thought it might be a good idea to take a deeper look at the business and economic side of cloud computing, and see how the latest thinking about cloud economics may or may not apply to real-time applications.

SCADA for the Masses?

by Bob McIlvride

In a recent Linkedin discussion among the SCADA Professionals group, Manny Romero, of Madison Technologies in Sydney, Australia suggested that the cloud could provide “SCADA to the masses.”

SCADA Professionals Weigh In

by Bob McIlvride

For the past few weeks members of the SCADA Professionals group of Linkedin have been discussing the question: “When you think of a cloud based SCADA/monitoring system, what issues come to your mind?”

Getting to Ten in Ten

by Bob McIlvride

The other day I saw a video and presentation called Ten in Ten – Ten Technology Trends that Will Change the World in Ten Years by Dave Evans, the Chief Futurist at Cisco…

CEO Perspectives 4: Leading the Transformation

by Bob McIlvride

While the more conservative players are willing to sit back and take a wait-and-see approach to cloud computing, a growing number of companies are diving in, and leading the transformation…