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I am fascinated by the artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It excites me but at the same time it scares me. I worry about becoming an obsolete species on the earth. Even though I tend to believe that it will be human being's ultimate fate like dinosaurs, but this time it will be AIs who may replace us! Nevertheless, AI technology promises to take the civilization much further. Does cloud computing share any link with AI technology? Can AI affect cloud computing or vice versa? Please remember that the current AI technologies are not even close to what scientists and researchers predict it to be. Watch the video to find out the current state of AIs: Its functionality is extremely limited even though it still affects the everyday world especially the world wide web in a big way. I wanted the last post of this blogging cycle to be looking towards the future so that you will have some thoughts for the week. Here is a video that provides research findings on how AI can perform...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), an important source of competitive advantage for companies, essentially integrates management information systems of all the business functions across the organizations, assimilates the organization with its business partners around the globe and automates the whole information flow process. You all know the importance and functionality of ERP. If you want to start somewhere here is a video for you on ERP: If you are a student of business management like me, you must have come across numerous case studies on how successful construction and implementation of ERP has made many organization successful. Now some people are suggesting that moving your own ERP system to cloud  can be beneficial. I was as confused as you are feeling right now. Given that every ERP system is extremely customized according to the need of the user organization, your ERP is very unique. Depending on how creative and strategy oriented you had been during the develo...

This year IDC reported that the securities and investment will be the earliest adopters of cloud computing while banking industry may lag behind because of various regulations that shapes the industry.  ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/download/features/2012/IDC_Cloud_jobs_White_Paper.pdf ) But most experts agree that financial services industry will be benefiting immensely from cloud computing. Is such phenomenon evident in the market? Believe it or not, there exists a 'FinCloud Institute' ( http://www.fincloudinstitute.org/ ) whose mission is "  to provide research-based insights into how Cloud Computing strategies are being implemented by  financial institutions .". Below is the picture of the institute itself: Yes, you guessed it right! Cloud Computing is a welcomed term in the financial services world. Don't get me wrong! The industry is in the early stage of adoption and not all firms are moving their IT need to cloud yet. But the industry is intrigue...

By now, you must have understood that in this post I will be covering the applicability of cloud computing phenomenon in basic scientific research and development. We are talking about connecting the dots between a technology that offers unlimited computing power and the science community who generate, analyze and integrate an unfathomable amount of data. Its a natural fit! But there exist some other benefits of cloud computing that are extremely appealing to the researchers in various fields of science. Lets start with the Helix Nebula, the latest initiative to build an European cloud for scientific research, then move on to some more specific science clouds such as cloud for material science, cloud for life sciences etc. In this blog, you have seen several characteristics of cloud computing and the most attractive one for various industries is the on-demand-service ( http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf ) that essentially enables businesses to reduce t...