There is a new buzz in the Cloud Computing community
A researcher from Barkley (Intel research to be exact) named Byung-Gon Chun did the unthinkable and made his smart phone interact with a cloud computing facility to extend the phones computational skill and prolong the battery life while utilizing the big bandwidth he has.
The ability to replicate your phone on the net in a cloud computing environment and let the cloud do the hard computational effort for your phone enabled him to put Face recognition software on his phone and make it send the photo to a replica of his phone on the cloud to get the match. this saved him 2 secs and cut the process into a third of its time to 1 sec.
The CloneCloud is a nice idea but is it a viable solution?
The vulnerabilities in putting part of your OS on a hosted environment and communicate with it over open communication channels are vast. viruses can intercept the communication and do lots of harmful actions. from merely eaves dropping to a replacement of the returned result with a false data containing an executable virus.
It also creates a hosted environment that is storing your personal data and uses Machine to Machine communication preventing captcha and other human identifications methods.
But with all the potential problems i think that the design is the worst. it is a flawed design resembling the mainframe only in an open environment assuming that we have our connectivity at all times and that our privet data is to be remotely accessed for the benefit of the performance.
We have CPU design to solve that. dont we? arent intel drifting away from their core business?
turning into the black giant nicked IBM to hide their inability to produce more energy efficient more powerful CPU for the mobile market.
The mobile market was always a sore thorn in the Intel history. Intel was always the underdog for the mobile market and only sub par Microsoft Mobile OS was running on it. most of the market was relaying on other CPU manufacturer with better products.
So are we seeing Intel riding the Cloud to get some hype back into slow and sluggish Wintel ME market?
I only hope that Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis will get recognized in the community as innovators to some extent.

We are so immersed with content management systems that we have forgot the simple static HTML pages power.
The static pages have the ability to save us CPU cycles and cost of hardware and even energy.
We all know their downturn that it takes expertise to fabricate them.
But is it that difficult?
Some of the current CMS systems sallow you to generate static files out of your templates and serve them on a web server and not the applications server to save on CPU cycles.
Vignette my employer have a product called HPD that auto generates sections of the template as HTML and serves those instead of the content regions been dynamically generated. The HPD also regenerates those sections if the content has changed.
We have content sections in website that change so infrequently that serving them from the application server is a crime, i will name a few:

• About us
• Meet the team
• location/contact details
• etc…

These are wonderful candidates of joining the 404 and becoming a static page on the web server.
The simplest solution to achieve that is to go to the page and save it as it is generated from your content management system.
Then put the page on the web server file system and configure the web server to get this page instead of the one from the Content Management system when the URL matches.
This is probably true to non php systems and more to java .net CMS.
In php you need to configure the same server to serve an HTML file and not your php code.
i took on a few assumptions that you have all your static assets (images, javascript, css etc) served from the web server and not your content management, if you are using the content management to serve those you need to first solve that problem and not the static content.