Daily Reading from June 23, 2008

23 Jun 2008

Links to what I’ve been reading recently.

Of Parascale & Other Cloud Computing News — "Parascale, a Cupertino, Calif-based start-up that has developed a storage file system for a cloud of computers announced that it had attracted $11.37 million in Series A funding from Charles River Ventures and Menlo Ventures. The company recently changed its …"
Democracy = Bad Business — "Democracy in corporate America has been a point of contention recently. The beauty of democracies can be traced to their inefficiency at fulfilling their purpose - i.e. to govern. Democracies are perhaps the least efficient form of government (one step …"
On Clouds, the Sun and the Moon — "The main value proposition of cloud computing is better economics, that it’s cheaper to rent hardware, software platforms and applications (via a per-usage or subscription model) than it is to buy, build and maintain them in the corporate data center. …"

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