professorjrod@gmail.com One idea rewired computing: what if one machine could convincingly pretend to be many? We start with mainframes and time sharing, then move through hypervisors, virtual machines, and the moment virtualization became the backbone of the cloud. From there, the story accelerates into public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models, and the service stack that defines modern IT—Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service—so you know exa...
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professorjrod@gmail.com One idea rewired computing: what if one machine could convincingly pretend to be many? We start with mainframes and time sharing, then move through hypervisors, virtual machines, and the moment virtualization became the backbone of the cloud. From there, the story accelerates into public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models, and the service stack that defines modern IT—Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service—so you know exa...
History of Modern Technology: Pocket Power: The USB Story
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History of Modern Technology: Pocket Power: The USB Story
professorjrod@gmail.com A tiny stick changed how we move information—and how attackers move too. We pull back the curtain on the USB flash drive’s quiet takeover: why floppies and CD-Rs failed us, how flash memory and USB converged, and which teams across Singapore, Israel, and China raced to ship the first pocket drive that actually worked. From early 8 MB models that cost a small fortune to today’s terabyte dual‑connector rockets, the arc is a crash course in convenience beating complexity....
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professorjrod@gmail.com One idea rewired computing: what if one machine could convincingly pretend to be many? We start with mainframes and time sharing, then move through hypervisors, virtual machines, and the moment virtualization became the backbone of the cloud. From there, the story accelerates into public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models, and the service stack that defines modern IT—Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service—so you know exa...
