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  • Viodi View – 05/28/13

    Viodi View – 05/28/13

    A New Use for an Old iPhone What to do with the some 50 million iPhones that were replaced last year; put them in a drawer, junk them, resell them? People Power provides an interesting approach to reusing these functionally good devices through its recently released People Power Presence. The above video overview with People Power’s CTO and co-founder,…

  • 2013 TiECon- Part 2: Software Defined Infrastructure Presentations

    2013 TiECon- Part 2: Software Defined Infrastructure Presentations

    Introduction: Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) applies to compute, storage and the network within a data center and in the cloud.  This market segment is experiencing tremendous growth and innovation.  It is facilitating increased agility, flexibility and operational cost savings for enterprises and service providers.  The first step in SDI was compute server virtualization and that’s…

  • Highlights of 2013 TiEcon- Part I: Opening Keynotes

    Highlights of 2013 TiEcon- Part I: Opening Keynotes

    Introduction TiEcon is the largest global conference for entrepreneurs. It is organized by TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs),  Silicon Valley chapter each year in Santa Clara, CA. This author has covered the conference for the past five years. This year’s conference convener was Ravinder Paul Singh, who is very highly regarded as a professional who always follows up…

  • Viodi View – 05/17/13

    Viodi View – 05/17/13

    Broadband for Everyone With the continued expansion of Google Fiber into the suburbs of Kansas City, this interview, filmed at the Broadband Communities Summit provides some insight into how Google Fiber is trying to reach all neighborhoods. “We are seeing much more inclusiveness in Kansas City,” said Rick Usher, Assistant City Manager of  Kansas City,…

  • Illustrations of Network Virtualization from VMware, ETSI NFV, and Intel Reference Designs

    Illustrations of Network Virtualization from VMware, ETSI NFV, and Intel Reference Designs

    Introduction Our last article described VMware’s view of network virtualization, provided definitions and advantages of same, with different opinions expressed on the main advantage(s).  There was a reference to a follow on article which would illustrate various configurations of network virtualization.  We attempt to do that in this article by describing figures from VMware, ETSI NFV…

  • VMware’s Network Virtualization Poses Huge Threat to Data Center Switch Fabric Vendors

    VMware’s Network Virtualization Poses Huge Threat to Data Center Switch Fabric Vendors

    Introduction: Milin Desai, Director, Product Management at VMware, presented his company’s views on network virtualization, its advantages, current and future products at a late day VMUG session on May 1, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA. The talk on Network Virtualization was in the context of a Software Designed Data Center (SD-DC), where all intra-structure (compute,…