Welcome to Tech Literate
I'm a technology writer with a particular interest in cloud and large scale computing. I'll use these pages to give some examples of my work - and to blether on in the blog below about whatever's interesting me at the moment. If you need a good writer, do get in touch.
Gillian Law
enStratus is a cloud management software company, based in the US, that is in the process of setting up its European headquarters in Edinburgh. I talked to George Hadjiyanis, vice president of sales and marketing, about the company and its plans, and wrote an article for the ICT KTN. You can read the article here.
Apologies for the site being down for a while yesterday - a DDoS attack on my hosting company brought everything to a halt. I did think my inbox was quiet...
I recently took a look at education in the HPC sector - what should be taught, what shouldn't ... and should every student be getting a grounding in parallel programming? Read about it at PlanetHPC.
Interesting stuff - it looks like Google wants to offer a Dropbox-like cloud storage service. Would you trust Google with your data? And as a Dropbox user, I'm not sure I'm happy with the article's suggestion that this could lead to Facebook buying Dropbox. Though I'm sure the owners of Dropbox would be thrilled...
I'm currently writing about this, and interested in any views on what's needed. What should be taught at undergraduate level, and how much kept for more specialised postgrad teaching? What are the specifics that should be covered?
Any thoughts? I'd love to hear them!
Monday, May 28, 2012 at 10:52AM