Technology is the cure for healthcare system | Healthcare Daily News 06/24/2008
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Harvard professor sees technology as cure for ailing, costly healthcare system
Clayton Christensen, who also authored The Innovator’s Dilemma, said that technology is the disruptive innovation that can help fix the broken healthcare system:
“Three specific technologies will bring about improved ability to diagnose precisely and enable disruption in healthcare business models, he said: molecular diagnostics to understand genetic structure, imaging technologies to look inside the body and high-bandwidth telecommunications to bring expertise to offices with limited healthcare resources.”
Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos | GigaOM 06/17/2008
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GigaOM Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos – GigaOM
Nick Carr contends that for Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it isn’t for, say, IBM, Sun, or HP. In a brief but illuminating video interview with Om Malik, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos underscores this point in describing the origins of Amazon Web Services. “Four years ago is when it started,” he says, “and we had enough complexity inside Amazon that we were finding we were spending too much time on fine-grained coordination between our network engineering groups and our applications programming groups. Basically what we decided to do is build a [set of APIs] between those two layers so that you could just do coarse-grained coordination between those two groups. Amazon is, you know, just a web-scale application.”
Head in the Clouds | CIO Insight 03/26/2008
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The Forecast for Cloud Computing
A couple of good takeaways from a solid article:
“Like all technological advances, cloud computing isn’t without risk. For instance, there are security risks related to commingling your data with that of other companies. And reliability concerns arise whenever you depend on a third party’s systems to be up and running 24/7, as companies that rely on Amazon.com’s fledgling Simple Storage Service, or S3, learned when the service went down for two hours last month.
“Still, IT folks seem willing to put up with the glitches in exchange for the potential benefits, as indicated by one online poster who chimed in on the Wall Street Journal Web site after reading of the Amazon outage. “Cloud computing may be new and may not be at telephone reliability,” wrote the S3 user, “but Internet hosting as a utility is a trend that’s well on its way.” “
… and of course:
“Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com who built his company on the slogan “No software,” says the distress over the perceived lack of security of the “multitenant” model—in which multiple companies’ application instances are stored on the same servers—is overblown. Granted, Benioff has reason to promote such a mindset, but the analogy he uses, comparing cloud computing service providers to the banking industry, has merit.
“If you met a CFO who insisted on keeping the company treasury in a safe in the basement, you’d think that he or she were nuts.”
Amazon SimpleDB 101 & Why It Matters | GigaOM 12/15/2007
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Amazon SimpleDB 101 & Why It Matters – GigaOM
“If you are in the business of managing massive amounts of distributed data, you cannot gloss over the Amazon WS trifecta — data-in-the-cloud is the future and with WS, Amazon is way ahead of the pack. What about the offerings of other vendors?”
A9: The Future of Information Access? 04/23/2004
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A9: The Future of Information Access?:
“We go online to find things. Amazon’s earlier decision to provide access to Web search alongside its integrated product search was a major recognition of that fact. Unlike those goofy ‘search the Web’ boxes some sites use that take you off the site, A9 combines search in the digital (Web) world with search in the analog (book) world. Because A9′s Amazon searches can take you, literally, ‘inside the book,’ the search becomes a much more valuable a tool than simply searching the Web would have been.
Perhaps A9 is the beginning of deep Web integration with algorithmic Web search in a way that recognizes how people search.”
