I received a press release announcing that REvolution Computing, a provider of software and support for the open source “R” statistical programming language had appointed R co-creator, Robert Gentleman, to its board of directors. The press release was a great impetus for me to look at R again. For background about R, Ashlee Vance wrote:

This month marks the first anniversary of when my startup, M-Dot Network, started building our enterprise solution on Amazon’s cloud computing platform. So as I reflect on a year that went by in a blur, I decided to share my thoughts on what I learned about cloud computing.

I have been to my share of conferences and webinars on cloud computing the last two years and I have also read the content of many colleagues who live blog, blog, and/or tweet at cloud conferences as well. What I am finding is that most of the talking is being done by vendors, analysts, security [...]

I spent two days at the Cloud Computing Expo in NYC this past week and want to share my thoughts on the state of the cloud. Here are my thoughts in no particular order…

Whenever you roll out a new technology, there are always changes to how people perceive that technology, and the ramifications to employment that technology has. Cloud computing is disruptive, allowing fewer people to do stuff that an entire IT Shop used to do.