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  • Viodi View – 04/04/12

    Viodi View – 04/04/12

    Is there a recipe for creating a viral video? This question is often pondered at digital media conferences and responses typically suggest viral video success stems from ingredients that include authenticity, quality of production, timing, the message and entertainment value. These elements are critical, but what might be the most important element is out of…

  • Cisco to Boost Home-Networking Portfolio with ClearAccess Purchase

    Cisco Systems took steps to expand its service-provider business with the announcement that it will acquire ClearAccess, a provider of wholesale network-management solutions. According to Cisco, the purchase will bolster its Prime network-management-software portfolio with a suite of home-networking solutions.  This is part of a growing new market generically referred to as the “Connected Home,”…

  • Key Messages from IDC Directions 2012 for “The Network” – Part 2

    Key Messages from IDC Directions 2012 for “The Network” – Part 2

    Part 1 of this article summarized the big picture view from IDC Directions 2012 as well as changes in enterprise IT and network infrastructure/ architecture.  Mobility and next generation mobile network architecture’s are examined in this piece. Essential guidance from IDC Analyst Courtney Munroe’s presentation on Mobility and the Cloud: Cloud Applications and Traffic will…

  • Viodi View – 03/23/12

    Viodi View – 03/23/12

    Will Google Hangouts and other virtual get together’s replace the advantages of face-to-face communications one sees at a trade show or conference? Sure, the immediacy and the zero travel cost of an online conversation plays well in a world that changes ever faster and needs an instant response. Still, being able to see people in…

  • Key Messages from IDC Directions 2012 for “The Intelligent Network” – Part 1

    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…

  • OTT movies equal VOD with more gardens to pick from

    OTT movies equal VOD with more gardens to pick from

    Sometimes I think about keeping thoughts to myself as they often conflict with what people want to hear or contradict what they believe and then I feel bad and then it happens and then the cycle repeats So here we are at the refresh of another cycle. I’m about to feel bad. Over-the-top progressed faster…