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| Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO, Inc. talking telecom, Cloud, VoIP, CLEC, and The Channel.

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Net-Heads Versus Bell-Heads

October 6, 2010

So I gave my talk today about Net-Heads versus Bell-heads at CVX (Channel Vision Expo). There is a shift happening in the telecom world. Not only is the world of IT and the world of Telecom blending, but technology is becoming even more pervasive in the business world. More technology means more problems and much more support is needed.

Posted in Internet, agents, apps, backup, bandwidth, broadband, channel, cloud computing, email, expo, saas, sip trunking, unified communications

What Happened to Redundancy?

May 18, 2010

I don't know if you have been reading about the outages that the Cloud Providers have been having. Rackspace, Amazon, Terremark to name a few have experienced outages in the last six months.

My question is What Happened to Redundancy?

The main selling point of these data centers is Redundancy. You know, Battery backup, Generator (for auxillary power), in some cases dual electrical grid power feeds.  

A vehicle took out a transformer on a utility pole in instances at both Rackspace and Amazon. But shouldn't the battery backup work for at least 45 minutes?





Posted in apps, backup, cloud computing, data center, disaster recovery, technology

IS MPLS HIPAA Compliant?

November 9, 2009

Speaking with Peter Davis, Partner Channel Manager in the Southeast for XO, about MPLS and HIPAA. XO recently held a webinar describing how their MPLS Solution can enable healthcare organizations to be HIPAA compliant.

The wording here is important. Transport is neither compliant or not.

Posted in VAR, agents, backup, compliance, data center, privacy, xo

Top Trends for Agents

October 11, 2009

I'm in Atlanta speaking at the Microcorp One-on-One event about Trends in 2010. The three trends that I see for agents are the following: Applications, Quality of Service (QOS), and Mobile Broadband (MBB). But they are kind of inter-dependent. Ubiquious broadband leads to innovative uses and applications.

Posted in Internet, PBX, agents, apps, backup, bandwidth, broadband, cellular, channel, cloud computing, communications, data center, email, saas, voip, wireless

Cloud Storage by Mail

May 21, 2009

Because broadband is so slow in the states, Amazon has resorted to allowing companies to mail in their portable devices for data storage and upload. According to Cloudave, it could take "82 days (with 1.54 Mbps T1 connection) to migrate one terabyte of data with 80% network utilization."  So "Amazon has resorted to old fashioned approach from the previous eras. Users can mail Amazon their data in one of the supported portable storage devices and Amazon will transfer it to users' AWS account from within Amazon's high speed internal network."  Sad really.
Posted in apps, backup, bandwidth, cloud computing, data center, saas

How Safe is the Cloud?

August 12, 2008

Network World has a story about how an online storage site, Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, shut down this week after 45% of the data was lost. Who's fault is it? Well, the article tries to figure that out.

As we have seen, outages are everywhere - Amazon, Google, etc.

Posted in Web 2.0, backup, data center, saas, security

Digital Life with no insurance

April 14, 2008

We live in the Digital Age. Digital music, photos, e-cards, downloaded movies, etc. The mementos of life are now just electrons. Not many cards, letters, film. Nothing tangible.

Here's the kicker: Most people don;t have back-up either.

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