In a recent meeting with William Toll and Pete Johnson of ProfitBricks, the pair were ecstatic to explain how their company has developed public cloud 2.0 – in other words this is not your father’s cloud. Now you might be...
Flash memory has already made major inroads in datacenters and on Macs and PCs – augmenting hard disks by prefetching and caching data. Flash memory is not perfect but it is getting better as error correction systems have...
There's been lots of activity in the TMC newsroom with many new guests coming to our Norwalk, CT studio to tell us what is new and exciting at their companies.At around 170 million mobile subscribers, TeliaSonera is a major mobile...
Google recently released a new video showing some of the details regarding how they turned an old paper mill into a datacenter and are utilizing a seawater tunnel which was already in existence to pump water into heat exchangers...
If your cloud services relay on a datacenter which is in an area affected by a natural disaster and your users or home office is not, you probably look at the recent disaster in Japan as a negative for...
The tech and communications markets have been generally stable and if anything a beacon of light in the turbulent waters of the general global economy. Specifically though the testing market is doing fairly well – if you are in the...
With virtualization, datacenters and cloud computing being some of the hottest trends in tech right now this Cisco webinar on borderless networks caught my eye and seemed worth sharing.Some of the topics to be discussed include workforce productivity enhancements,...
I swear I haven't been playing hooky today and yesterday - I have in fact been meeting with lots of very innovative Canadian companies - most of which I met for the first time. Innovation as always is alive and...
The need for faster data throughput is not slowing down and there are a number of high-level business reasons for the continuing data tsunami in modern datacenters. Perhaps the most important from a financial perspective is high-performance computing related...
For telecom veterans who were active in the communications space in the nineties you remember the excitement the industry enjoyed when Microsoft and Novell entered the telecom markets with TAPI and TSAPI protocols to interconnect communications systems with computers. The...
The feedback regarding the Avaya session detailing the acquisition of Nortel's enterprise assets next week has been incredible. Hearing Avaya's new roadmap is crucial if you are a customer of Avaya and/or Nortel or of you are a reseller, partner,...
I just got my iPhone 3G S up and running and am blown away because as a power user - even using the new OS 3.0 on an iPhone 3G I had to wait 5 or more seconds for an...
On a recent flight back from Europe I marveled at the ice littering the North Atlantic. A flight attendant told me it was sad as what appeared to be ice cubes from a mile or more in the air used...
While talk of doom and gloom permeates the news, some recent good news worth sharing is a ribbon cutting ceremony in Clifton, NJ for a new Telx datacenter. It is refreshing to see growth and news jobs being created...
One of the most challenging issues for companies which provide service over the net is keeping systems up and running 100% of the time. No company has been able to keep their services running constantly but certainly Google is one...
PAETEC like a slew of other voice and data providers is looking to differentiate itself but perhaps its biggest asset is CEO Arunas Chesonis (pictured) whose unique style allows him to impress you about the company's direction without coming...
Avocent headquarters in Huntsville, AlAs budgets tighten, companies are looking for ways to do more with less. They are cutting heads and spending, and as a result they have fewer people to get the job done. In this environment we...
John Savageau one of the hardest working people I know in the carrier hotel/datacenter business was just promoted to CTO of CRG West where he will get to focus more on the company's peering and ICT offerings. Perhaps no...
New York's newest carrier neutral datacenter is CRG West's 32americas facility located at 32 Avenue of the Americas. The 50,000 square foot facility will deliver the power and peering opportunities companies need to reduce costs and manage their network.You...
Companies spend incredible sums of money on their communications and technology infrastructure but all too often they do not focus enough attention on protecting the investment in such equipment. As telepresence, unified communications, handheld devices, mobility and IP communications turbocharge...
A relative of mine has a datacenter for lease/purchase and I figured my readers may be interested. It is located in Thornton, Colorado about eleven miles north of Denver. The building includes a cafeteria, hundreds of parking spaces...
AT&T is making a major telecom investment in many areas of its business. The telecom giant cites the explosion of high-speed networks, data consuming devices and the move to IP as the reason for this investment. The money is...
The human mind never ever ceases to amaze. The latest idea which has me thinking "wow" is a floating datacenter which is able to save money by cooling computers with sea water instead of electricity. A new Silicon Valley...