Could Big Technology Suck the Innovation out of Cloud Computing?

“It took, by Larry Ellison’s own admission, ‘almost seven years of relentless engineering and innovation plus key strategic acquisitions,’ but today the Oracle CEO was able to make the announcement that the database giant would be entering the public cloud sector with Oracle Cloud.  So far, the crowd has yet to go wild.”

The fact of the matter is that many of the larger technology players sat on the sidelines, waiting for the right time to move into the world of cloud computing.  Or, perhaps better put, they hoped cloud computing would go away, but joined the parade when it never did.  Oracle is the poster child of those guys.  I’ll include HP, SAP, and even Microsoft in that gang as well, but there are a few others.

The trouble with big technology moving into the cloud game is that the larger guys freeze the market on many of the smaller, and more innovative players.  Customers dependent upon this technology, such as Oracle and SAP, will wait to see what kind of cloud oozes out of the cracks, and largely ignore the more innovative upstarts.  The result is a smaller market for cloud startup, and thus the stifling of innovation.

Moreover, we’ll find that many of the more innovative startups are taken out completely by the big guys.  While you would think the big guys would purchase these little guys for the technology, many will be purchased for the people and the marketing spin.  The technology will quickly disappear from the market, much to the chagrin of the existing users of that technology who have to scurry around to find a replacement.

For example, once it figured out that it was competing with itself, EMC decided to shut down Atmos, its cloud storage service.  I suspect that much of the consolidation will remove innovative technology from the market due to the threat of conflicting channels, or, more likely, the result of internal politics at the larger technology providers.

Unfortunately, there is very little we can do other than demand better from multi-billion dollar technology players out there.  However, I would suggest that you don’t wait around for these guys to put forth their cloud computing technology.  I suspect that their first generation of public and private clouds won’t drive you to leave AWS, Rackspace, or other already established players.

This also means opening up your minds to smaller companies with good solutions.  We have a tendency to take the path of least resistance when it comes to technology.  Just because you’ve dealt with the same company for years and years does not mean they are the right company to take you into the cloud.

Turkey vs damascus

Political analyst says a Turkish fighter jet that recently violated Syrian airspace and was downed by Damascus was a ploy to provoke the country.

The comment comes as Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government would retaliate against Damascus over the downing of the Turkish fighter jet by the Syrian army.

Syria on Friday said that a Turkish warplane, a F-4 Phantom, was shot down in Syrian territorial waters west of the village of Om al-Tuyour in Lattakia Province, 10 kilometers from the beach.

Syrian military stressed on Friday that it had engaged the jet in the Syrian airspace “according to the laws that govern such situations.”

Erdogan said Turkey’s military jet violated the Syrian airspace for a short time and “by mistake” and it was shot down by Syria “without a single warning.”

Meanwhile, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has condemned the downing of the Turkish plane as ‘unacceptable,’ and promised full support for Ankara. Turkey had called for a meeting of the alliance to discuss the incident.

Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi on Monday warned NATO against forging any anti-Syria conspiracy on the downing of the Turkish fighter jet.

Press TV has conducted an interview with author and historian, Webster Griffin Tarpley, to further discuss the issue.

Chamakhe Maurieni, of the Gafi Research Institute, Tunis, has some very striking revelations about HIV/AIDS, something he calls a "fraud" which feeds "a 300 billion dollar industry" which rests on flimsy evidence that HIV caused AIDS, which, he claims, is not a disease but rather a "state".

Timofei Belov (Pravda.Ru) interviewed Chamakhe Maurieni.

Pravda.Ru: Chamakhe, you work for the secretive Gafi Research Institute, Tunis and your latest investigation has been on AIDS. Congratulations on having been appointed the lead writer for the Institute. What do you have to reveal to us?

CM: It is simply a hoax, the Gafi research team termed it the 21st century's greatest fraud. The HIV/Aids industry is a 300 billion-dollar industry of manipulative fraud, lies, deceptions, more lies and many more lies. From a ploy by a few people running into hundreds, it has risen over two decades and has been invested-in by private individuals, co-operations and various governments across the world. It's simply been used over and over to balance government corrupt books.

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What kind of weapons shoot blanks? Whoever proved HIV CAUSED Aids? The answer is a big gaping Nobody. Ask yourself a question majority of the world population, including the so-called HIV patients, have never asked themselves or put to world governments, organisations, NGOs who go about preaching HIV kills, safe sex and a host of other sickening slogans. Where are the scientific references establishing HIV as the cause of  AIDS? Presently, there are none.

Pravda.Ru: What do you mean? What about all the research carried out by the world's top professors?

CM: If you think a virus is the cause of Aids, do a control without it; this has surprisingly never been done. The current epidemiology of Aids is simply a pile of anecdotal stories, selected to fit the AIDS hypothesis. The Hiv/Aids story is a multi-billion/dollar/pound fraud, racket which is based on two fallacies: Aids is a single disease/aids is a disease and secondly that Aids is caused by the HI virus or the HIV VIRUS as some choose to call it - perhaps they think V in HIV stands for volcano.

Taking a look at the fallacies, fabrications; it need be stated: Aids is not a single disease but rather a state where the immune defence system in a human is, simply put, DEAD, WEAK, INEFFECTIVE...

Thus, the said human is vulnerable to every form of disease attack, it can be Malaria, measles, papilloma and so much more... The second fabrication claims Aids is caused by HI, which is false.Hiv is a retrovirus, a retrovirus is an RNA virus duplicated in a host cell using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome. Retroviruses are unlike flu viruses, they don't cause diseases

Hiv .....is one thousandth the size of a regular cell. Hiv is simply a harmless piece of dead tissue, not unlike the numerous other retroviruses which exist in the human body.  Thus, it is not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is any such real evidence, there should be scientific documents which demonstrate the fact,.....right now, presently, at the moment, there are no such documents. All we have at the moment are hear-says, fictitious stories, lies and mere-propaganda by the mainstream media.

A major problem with the AIDS definition is that it ignored the man-made environmental causes of immune suppression. Exposure to toxin, alcoholism, heavy drug use or heavy antibiotic use; all of these can cause an onset of the list of diseases which provide the same symptoms/identical symptoms indicative of AIDS.

The Hiv/Aids propagandists all intentionally forget to inform the world that Hiv positive response in humans can be triggered by vaccination, malnutrition, measles, influenza, papilloma virus, war, leprosy, hepatitis, syphilis and over forty different other conditions.

Pravda.Ru: Let us follow the course of AIDS through from the beginning.

CM: Let's make a brief history of how all of these Hiv/Aids lie came to be. It all emerged from the USA and that should be common knowledge I presume. The truth is simple but has been kept for too long. Previously to the announcement by Robert Gallo, head of a retrovirus lab at the National cancer institute, at a 1984 press conference, that Hiv causes Aids, it all began with Federal centres for disease control and prevention, overstating their relevance and were thus under threat of being disbanded. The centre needed a serious epidemic to justify its continued existence, it decided to name Aids as a single contagious disease and thus created an atmosphere of public fear, and panic, which brought it increased funding and power. Simply put, public fear of a new dreaded AIDS was used as a catalyst to achieve increased power and funding.

After the announcement by Robert Galo, head of a retrovirus lab at the national cancer institute in 1984, pharmaceutical companies by a decade later, began exploiting the situation by bringing back highly toxic, failed cancer drugs-AZT, it is also called Zidovudine or Retrovir combination Therapies. These drugs have been proven and were proven once more by various scientists, in the past, and also proven by the Gafi research institute, to destroy the immune system and cause the same symptoms attributed to HIV.