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Privacy versus Security

January 25, 2012

"Concerned about privacy? Maybe you should be concerned about the economy instead. That was the subtext of a keynote speech by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, at a technology conference in the heart of Europe." [Benton]

Not to get political, but privacy is a ship that has sailed.

Posted in economy, outage, politics, privacy, security, technology

Verizon's Bad Month

December 30, 2011

Posted in PR, cellular, outage

Juniper, TWC Have a Bad Day

November 7, 2011

TW Cable had a nationwide outage this morning as reported on twitter and TheVerge. Internet slowdowns and outages were still being reported by Noon Eastern time.

According to the NANOG chatterbox, Level3 & TWC are having the same problem: it appears that Juniper routers are doing a core dump due to a BGP advertisement that triggers a bug.

Posted in Internet, cableco, outage

InterOp InterNAP Rumor (is False)

May 12, 2011

At InterOp in Vegas this morning, there is talk that InterNAP shut down its network. It has closed its peering points and going to focus on its cloud strategy of data centers and managed services.  I'll have to work on confirming it.

UPDATE: My clients - at least 3 - who use InterNAP say that it is up and running still - even the peering points. So the rumor is false.

UPDATE from email:  Internap, AS22212, will be leaving NOTA on May 6, 2011.  



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Data Center Certs

May 6, 2011

I am working on a data center project for a client. Evaluating data centers is kind of funny, especially the certifications. SAS70, ISO, LEEDS and PCI Compliance.

I don't think people even understand that SAS70 means that a CPA has audited the procedures and processes to ensure that there are indeed written processes in place and that at least some of them are followed. Now some of you will argue you with me about this, but the reality is, my evaluation is pretty accurate.

Posted in Internet, Marketing, data center, outage

The Inexpensive Cloud

April 21, 2011

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Amazon Web Services including EC2 is down today. When Gmail has any failure my twitter stream goes nuts. Facebook collapses often.

There is one thing people should keep in mind: Building Resiliency and Survivability into a Cloud Platform is not cheap.

For Agents, used to selling TDM with five nines reliability, moving to VoIP with less than that will be a shock, especially when they find out after the first outage.

For VAR's, who have been running their own servers, and like visitors to  Vegas who tell me they are up money, will tell you about never having any down time, moving customers to the Cloud, where you lack control and transparency, will be unsettling.





Posted in VAR, Web 2.0, agents, apps, cloud computing, data center, disaster recovery, outage, saas, technology, training, voip

Expectations in 2011 with Jon Arnold

December 15, 2010

Posted in Internet, broadsoft, cloud computing, communications, data center, hosted uc, outage, saas, tele-presence, telecommunications, unified communications

Verizon Starts Blocking

June 9, 2010

Comcast won in court over the FCC on the issue of traffic shaping, so Verizon started blocking ports this week.

First, VZ started blocking port 25 yesterday on their FiOS and DSL networks. Now VoIP Traffic is being blocked.

From an ITSP, "We started getting calls today, and it seems that Verizon has started blocking ports, traffic shaping, something, but it is interfering with voice service, email, and some web traffic.

Posted in FCC, broadband, duopoly, outage, voip, wireline

A Big Outage Day!

June 9, 2010

Twitter is down. (And a few million people have nothing to do).

Facebook is experiencing issues as well.  I guess people will just have to work today.

AT&T's cellular network is down in Tampa Bay. (And a few thousand iPhone users are cursing.)

A point: you can't count on another network - twitter, Facebook, Google or any other - for your business. It's outside your control - and at the price of free, well, you can't have expectations of four 9's uptime.





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