Category: Cloud Computing
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Key Messages from IDC Directions 2012 for “The Intelligent Network” – Part 1
At it’s annual Directions 2012 conference, market research firm IDC strongly stated that IT is on the cusp of a “Third Platform” that will dominate the landscape till 2020 and beyond. That 3rd platform consists of some mash up of: cloud computing, mobile broadband, mobile services/devices/platforms- OSs/apps, social networks, and big data/analytics. Many or all of those technologies…
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MEF Announces Carrier Ethernet 2.0 & Connection Oriented Ethernet for Private Clouds
Introduction: Last week was a very big one for Carrier Ethernet. It marked the launch of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) and new announcements at the very informative Ethernet Technology Summit in San Jose, CA. While the conference theme was “Ethernet everywhere” (with special emphasis on the Data Center), there…
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Cloud Connect 2012: WAN issues still unresolved, but Telcos get serious about Cloud!
WANs for the Cloud takes center stage at Cloud Connect The critical problems associated with the WAN for cloud service delivery were explored at UBM/Tech Web’s Cloud Connect 2012 conference last week in Santa Clara, CA. The WAN is a huge issue because VPN tunneling over the public Internet will not provide the security, availability,…
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Role of Telecommunications & Benefits of Cloud Computing (ITU-T FG Cloud)
Editors Note: This article is based entirely on the October 7, 2011 ITU-T FG Cloud document “Cloud Benefits” which is based on their recent meeting in Seoul, South Korea. We have not provided any editorial content or opinion on this work in progress. The article is provided as further background information for the October 12th IEEE ComSocSCV…
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Cloud Leadership Forum: Opportunities & Obstacles to Cloud Adoption
The just concluded Cloud Leadership Forum (June 20-21 in Santa Clara, CA) brought together CIOs, IT managers, vendors, and analysts to discuss the current status, future directions and important caveats of Cloud Computing. This very successful IDG event was organized and chaired by IDC Chief Analyst Frank Gens and IDG Enterprise Sr VP John Gallant.…
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Amazon’s EC2 Outage Proves Cloud Failure Recovery is a Myth!
Amazon’s Cloud Computing failures began early Thursday morning and continue into Friday April 22nd. Affected web sites included Quora.com, Reddit.com, GroupMe.com and Scvngr.com, which all posted messages to their visitors about the issue. Most of those web sites have been inaccessible for hours, and others were only partly operational. Companies use Amazon’s cloud-based service (known…