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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…

  • NSN in Talks to Sell Majority Stake after Motorola & Huawei Settle Dispute

    Trade Secret Dispute Settled Clears Sale of Motorola Networks to NSN: The settlement of the legal dispute between Motorola and Huawei paves the way for Motorola to complete the sale of its network equipment business to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). The acquisition, which had originally been expected to be completed late last year, was delayed…

  • Viodi View – 04/13/2011

    Viodi View – 04/13/2011

    3DTV is real and growing more rapidly than earlier technologies, such as the DVD. The market for this new format is still maturing, but there is no doubt that it will revolutionize content production, requiring new skill sets for content producers. The verdict is still out on ATSC-M (mobile video by broadcasters); no doubt, the…

  • Economic Gardening Instead of Big Business Hunting

    50 billion dollars; that is how much communities and states spend each year wooing businesses from outside their area, according to Dr. Glenda Humiston, USDA Rural Development State Director for California. Speaking at last week’s Western Telecom Alliance Convention, Humiston likened this jockeying for out-of-town businesses as a zero-sum game that has limited benefit in…

  • Will Level 3 with GC Be Able to Compete in the Business Services Market?

    Level 3 Communications Inc. announced today that it would buy Global Crossing (GC) in an all stock-for-stock transaction valued at US$1.9 billion (after assumed debt). As part of the deal, which is expected to close by year end, Level 3 will assume $1.1 billion of GC’s debt. The two companies had combined 2010 revenues of…

  • Three Different Scenarios for Delivering Cloud Based Communications as a Service

    Three Different Scenarios for Delivering Cloud Based Communications as a Service

    “Communications as a Service”  or CaaS can include any type of communications delivered as a service based on a subscription model.  That is, Voice over IP (VoIP), instant messaging (IM), email, chat, web, audio and videoconference services.  It might also include telco network operations and management in the cloud.  Yet the term CaaS now means…