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New job

 

Already a bit old but still exciting news: On September 1, 2011, I started my new job at Atos International; Global Business Development Director - More travels, more challenges, new colleagues.

I will be looking after the development of the Siemens Global Alliance in two major areas:

• Cloud Computing and
• Healthcare Systems

 

I am very excited about this opportunity and looking forward to getting the inspiration to restart my blogging (its about time….)

Presenting the new AtoS logo (and a cool movie too)

Today Atos Origin becomes AtoS

Last Friday (July 1, 2011) the shareholdersmeeting of Atos Origin confirmed the Acquisition of former Siemens Information Services (SIS) by Atos Origin. Today we present the new company: ATOS.The power of TO.

Cloud Orchestration (Intro)

This is what we have been working on in the Atos Origin Scientific Community Cloud-track. A whitepaper is also available (download it from this page) and our animation tells the story very well. I will discuss this in later posts.

 

Cloud Orchestration by Atos Origin

Expect More…

Stay tuned. I will start blogging again after the Feb 7 event (if all goes as planned…).

The relationship between Cloud and SOA explained

Last week I contributed to an article in XR Magazine (in Dutch, English translation is here) on the relationship between Cloud Computing / Services and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). The concept of a “Cloud Orchestration Bus” (COB) is introduced in this article. The COB is the result of research done in Atos Origin on Cloud Services. I hope I can publish more on this very soon.

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Wireless Power

In the 2010 version of the Atos Origin LookOut website and booklet, I submitted an exciting technology for the section on “Enabling Information Technologies”. The technology I highlighted was “wireless power” and below is the text I wrote for LookOut:

Introduction:

“The wireless power concept enables us to transmit power to devices without the use of electric cords or batteries, with the possibility to charge batteries by replacing the wire by using induction. Wireless power will be a lifestyle changing technology like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and not having to factor in heavy batteries, will also impact industrial design and portability of devices that need electricity and will have a profound impact on the environment, eradicating much of today’s pollution by heavy metals.”

Concept

• The wireless power concept ultimately enables us to transmit power to devices without the use of electric cords or batteries.
• Up until 2008, the focus has been on creating better batteries and in 2009 we have seen possibilities to charge batteries by replacing the wire by using induction — something we have already seen in electric toothbrushes. Induction allows for transmission over short distances.
• In 5–10 years we will be able to transmit power over much larger distances.

Application and Benefits

• It applies to all devices we use in our daily life that need to be moved around, from vacuum cleaners to mobile phones.
• Getting rid of batteries will have a profound impact on the environment, eradicating much of today’s pollution by heavy metals.
• Not having to factor in heavy batteries will also impact industrial design and portability of devices that need electricity
• As soon as wireless power replaces traditional wiring systems we will no longer need all sorts of cabling, which in itself will save millions in infrastructure, and trillions in raw materials such as copper and wire insulation.
• Finally, because devices now truly become mobile, it will allow all people — whether they are located in the developed countries or anywhere else — access all types of information and applications for communications, education and collaboration.

I predicted widespread usage for 2014 and an happy to see that steps are being taken to standardize the delivery and application; On July 23, 2010, The Qi consortium announced the general availability of the low power interface specification (download here).

This document is one part of a three part specification; The other documents (performance compliance and compliance testing are only available for Qi members). Members include an array of impressive names among which are Motorola, Nokia, RIM, Energizer, Duracell, Samsung, and Philips.

Today I am seeing the adoption of this by the mobile industry, but if you have a look at the video’s you will also see different other usage models. I especially like the idea of having inductive coils integrated in the furniture.

Engadget has an additional story here and here on the usage for mobile devices. It will come as no surprise MIT has been working on it already and now seems to be doing some groundbreaking stuff by increasing the efficiency through the coupling of devices.

Oh, and some of you may argue that all of this was already invented by a guy named Nikola Tesla; you may decide that for yourself and study his patent submission here.

 

Two videos form CES 2010:

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I had a meeting with Bob Muglia today

 

Today I had the privilege to spend 1.5 hour in a 1-on-1 meeting with Bob Muglia from Microsoft.

We talked a lot about BPOS, the Microsoft Azure services and the relationship to the Atos Origin business model. Some of the conversation was under NDA, so it cannot be shared here.

But I must say that Microsoft has a clear vision with their online portfolio and there are significant opportunities for partners.

Bob Muglia is a member of Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team that is responsible for shaping the company's business and technology strategy, so you can imagine I felt pretty inspired by this conversation.

(thx to Peter Paul de Heer and Michel N'guettia for inviting me) 

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Microsoft announces Beta Linux integration services for Hyper-V (w/ SMP support)

Image via Wikipedia

News:

A couple of days ago, Microsoft announced a new beta for their Linux integration services. This new version 1.2 includes:

• SMP support for Linux workload (up to 4 virtual CPU’s available for Linux virtual machines running on Hyper-V)
• Time sync (synchronization of time with the parent partition for Linux VM’s running on Hyper-V)
• Integrated Shutdown (you now can shut down a Linux virtual machine gracefully from the Hyper-V manager)

This is good news for system integrators that want to run both Windows virtual machines and Linux virtual machines side-by-side on a ‘cloud’ platform. Hopefully all of these new capabilities will find their way into the new distributions soon.

The beta can be obtained from connect.microsoft.com. and is valid for Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 / 5.3 / 5.4.

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BPOS roadmap 2010 - 2011

About two years ago I started working on building a relationship with Microsoft and their BPOS offering. Last week we have been informed on the roadmap for the next 2 years. Because it is now published on the Mary-Jo Foley weblog, I can share it also with you.

 

Note that BPOS is available in a ‘dedicated’ and ‘standard’ way of delivery. In ‘dedicated’ the customer gets its own set of hardware in the Microsoft datacenter. In ‘standard’, the service is run from a shared hardware platform in a Microsoft datacenter. Both versions are available through a reseller or directly from Microsoft, however Microsoft will not integrated BPOS with your existing application platform. This is the responsibility of your own IT department or system integrator. Selected SI’s will be able to provide BPOS in a reseller construction, allowing for the SI to deliver and invoice BPOS through a single vendor construction.