Tag: cloud computing
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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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Viodi View – 04/27/2011
When your head (and the rest of your body) is in the clouds 8 miles high, it is difficult to access the cloud. Sure, in-flight wireless does make it possible to use the Internet from a plane, but the slow-speed points to the time not so long ago when 56k dial-up was high-speed. So, while short…
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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…
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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…
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Viodi View – 02/02/10
In a nutshell, “smart energy” is about doing more with the same or less energy, as well as making better use of alternative power sources. That would be the single sentence description of what was a crash course on the topic of “smart energy” at last week’s Parks Associates’ Smart Energy Summit. Viodi worked with…
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Cloud Computing Realities from a VC and IT Expert at TiE Charter Member Meeting
Introduction: While there has been a tremendous amount of articles, whitepapers and other information written on cloud computing, most of it is from IT vendors or market research firms. In a Viodi View article last year, we reported that IDC said “the Cloud platform would be in a power position for the next 20 years…