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Cloud, the opposite of decentralised
Talkback For my money, decentralised would mean people self hosting all of their own resources except the raw data comms and using secure interoperability standards to link to the relevant bits of their correspondents systems.
[August 28, 2009, 9:33]
Still not decentralised
Talkback Breaking the system up into a small number of centralised data repositories still doesn't make it decentralised; however interoperable they are. You are still trusting your life blood data to some faceless corporation that genuinely doesn't give a...
[September 7, 2009, 11:32]
MP welcomes UN indecision on Internet policy
Talkback It is high time that Internet should be “decentralised” and access to it should be provided to all the nations of the world in an equitable and judicious manner. Thus, no single body, including UN, should be given the important task of regulating...
[July 18, 2005, 19:15]
Collaborating by Groove
News Groove was really founded based on the changing nature of business in general -- the fact that business would become more decentralised. It is not just how businesses are interacting with one another in a very decentralised fashion.
[March 16, 2004, 10:55]
BitTorrent is dead. Long live BitTorrent?
News Like other file-swapping applications, a decentralised service would be made up only of individual users, none of whom control the network. He said that it would be a modified version of the popular BitTorrent technology, but transformed into a...
[January 5, 2005, 15:15]
Semantics?
Talkback Its much easier to manage one big machine than tens of thousands of small ones, and the support costs in a large business are truly staggering, if people only knew how much effeort needs to be employed due to the decentralised nature of the business.
[May 18, 2007, 11:31]
Q&A: Meet the new spam buster
News Charles Cooper recently chatted with Ozzie -- the legendary developer responsible for inventing what became Lotus Notes -- about the future of decentralised collaboration and life in the post-P2P era.
[April 16, 2002, 10:16]
Sun aims at peer-to-peer search with acquisition
News The first of these services to emerge is the basic ability to search, a commonplace function on the Web but a more complicated project in the decentralised world of peer-to-peer services. As first reported by CNET News.com, the InfraSearch...
[March 7, 2001, 9:42]
P2P firms claim filtering 'impossible'
News File-swapping companies have contended that this kind of filter is impossible in a decentralised system such as Gnutella or Kazaa. But in wholly decentralised networks, in which searches radiate out through a constantly shifting array of "nodes...
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
New P2P tools mean quicker downloads
News This allows searches to be carried out more efficiently than in earlier decentralised systems. The first is to do with decentralised search. A new generation of peer-to-peer tools is gaining traction on the Internet, spelling tougher times ahead...
[May 27, 2003, 11:43]
EDonkey picking up pace in Euro P2P stakes
News The first is to do with decentralised search. This allows searches to be carried out more efficiently than in earlier decentralised systems. European peer-to-peer network users are abandoning traditionally popular applications like Kazaa in favour...
[October 14, 2003, 18:20]
Social networking federation: why not use .tel?
Blog Comment There is some ongoing discussion about using .tel for the namespace within a decentralised microblogging architecture (www.scripting.com, www.rsscloud.org). Exactly :-) The idea is simple: news aggregators resolve peoples names to their real-time...
[September 21, 2009, 10:00]
A Service-Oriented Architecture for Software Process Technology
White Papers This paper describes the development of a decentralised process support and management tool, and explores its functionality for both process modelling and enactment. As teams become more distributed and software systems increasingly complex, the...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
IT Infrastructure Optimisation The Fujitsu Approach
White Papers Causes of this situation included the desire of departments to control their own IT facilities, the growth of PC networks, decentralised purchasing policies, explosive growth of businesses, company mergers, and reorganisations.
[June 24, 2009, 11:59]
Skype's contradictions show its strength
Leader Although Skype makes a big play of being decentralised and user to user, it actually relies on super-peers to relay messages between users behind address-translating routers. It's just over two years old and is still making headlines.
[October 26, 2005, 14:40]
File-swap ruling heads back to court
News The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing a lower court decision made last spring in which a federal judge ruled that distributing decentralised file-swapping tools such as Grokster and Morpheus was legal, and that their parent companies...
[February 3, 2004, 8:05]
US reasserts control over the Internet
Talkback It is high time that Internet should be “decentralised” and access to it should be provided to all the nations of the world in an equitable and judicious manner. OWNERSHIP OF INTERNET The Internet is a “joint venture” owned by the netizens at large...
[July 3, 2005, 7:15]
Lib Dems urge immediate halt to NPfIT
News We believe the gains possible from the use of IT would more likely be realised if the programme were decentralised and control given to local organisations who could instead work on improving connectivity between health and social care," Lamb said...
[September 17, 2008, 10:54]
Sun pushes environmental benefits of thin clients
Talkback The only people who stand to benefit from the current decentralised system of having 100's of under-used individual CPU's is the PC makers who obivously stand to charge a lot more. They have enviromental benfits simply because they are more...
[May 5, 2005, 12:07]
So Much Confusion Over The Blindingly Obvious.
Talkback To split the two and run them decentralised under a common brand but totally different business models is obvious, running them as an integrated whole under the same structures and processes is and was stupid.
[February 1, 2008, 15:04]
