And rather than envision some sort of uber developer, who understands big data, web performance optimization, application middleware, and fault tolerance in a massively distributed environment, we need operations specialists on the development teams.

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The basis for the platform centers around research related to Microsoft's Singularity project, and envisions a distributed environment where applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted across multiple systems.

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After graduation he worked in network architecture for a series of banks while also serving as an adjunct professor at Delaware which gave him exposure to the academic side of network engineering and the whole process of devices working in a cluster and a completely distributed environment.

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The study paints a picture of a business environment in which access to information is more distributed, data analysis skills are more common, and tools to manage and analyze large sets of data are more pervasive.

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This starts with the nature of how applications are distributed and extends right through to greater technology democracy among the workforce, all without losing control of the user environment.

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The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has sent up a reconnaissance flight to investigate how the ash is distributed in the cloud, something that is impossible to assess from satellite imagery.

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