Monthly Archives: March 2009

Cloud Gaming, would it be possible? – I believe it will!

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In a recent post, JC Fletcher talks about the service promoted by onlive.com gaming platform. In this post he talks about some subjects on which the Cloud Gaming could have problems, namely the video encoding process and the latency on communications. In previous posts I already have talked about some of these questions and also about the projects developed by AMD on this field, but the information provided by the JC’s post will help introduce some new thoughts on this matter.
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Cloud Gaming – would it be possible?

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AMD is working on this apparently impossible thing called Cloud-Gaming, and it has introduced some nice thoughts and concepts in its Render Fusion. I already had the opportunity to talk about it in a previous posts. But now we have a more “real” intention or promise, Onlive.com is advertising a service that would deploy gaming directly from the Cloud as a service. Apparently they have solved all the questions about latency, video compression, etc. The service  will be open very soon, but for now you can read more about their promises here:

http://kotaku.com/5181300/onlive-makes-pc-upgrades-extinct-lets-you-play-crysis-on-your-tv

I will stay tunned to watch this “revolution”…

Jason Fried Interview

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One of the Cloud players that I follow is 37 signals, not just because they developed a great web framework (Rails) and have simple yet powerful applications (Basecamp, Highrise, etc.) built on top of it, but also because they are independent thinkers with a different vision on several topics. I’ve read the recent interview that Jason Fried gave to O’Reilly and found the following interesting thoughts:
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Interesting stuff (articles that I’ve read)

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I’ve read recently several articles about Cloud Computing that I would like to share in this blog:

Start your company with a credit card and a cloud: An article showing what a small company (JumpBox) is doing. Basically they sell “pre-built, pre-configured [Open Source] software applications packaged for deployment on virtual computing platforms.” that a small company can use. As the article author says “My little notebook computer has enough power to run a business – if I could just get the support and the apps to do it.”.

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EaaS: Everything as a Service – The next big buzzword?

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When we try to use or promote technologies or technological paradigms we must start by digging up all the information about it. This is almost mandatory and it’s the basis of all the work done by the majority of us. The information obtained must help create a clear and broad view about the new field of work. And consequently, the resulting view would help create solutions, products or promotional work.

This is fundamental and without it you won’t be able to create solutions with the most basic feature – interoperability. Without it, we (IT members, entrepreneurs, etc) will also loose the ability to vertically scale up our ideas in our company, or even to be successful when trying to obtain clients, financing, etc. Furthermore, we end up loosing the ability to talk with each other.
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