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InterOp 2011 in Vegas
Sungard booth at InterOp. With all the Cloud talk I thought more than just Rackspace and Sungard woul dbe here. InterOp is all about the racks ;) ...
Tele-Pacific Buys into Hosted
Tele-Pacific is buying its way into Hosted PBX with its acquisition of Telekenex. TelePacific will gain approximately 1,000 business customers and 122 employees along with the hosted PBX platform. Tele-Pacific will run Telekenex as a separate channel, which is a...
Data Center Certs
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...
CenturyLink Buys Savvis
It hasn't even finished swallowing Qwest and CenturyLink makes a deal to buy Savvis for $2.5B plus the assumption of $700M in debt. From the press release, "With the addition of Savvis, CenturyLink will achieve global scale as a managed...
The Inexpensive Cloud
Image via Wikipedia 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...
VZ Buys Terremark for $1.4B
I was shocked last night when I read that VZ had purchased Terremark for $1.4B. It reminded me of MCI Worldcom buying Intermedia just to acquire the Digex assets. It really is all about Cloud these days! Rackspace and...
8 Questions for Cloud Providers
I've done a couple of webinars lately for VAR's and Agents about the Cloud. I think that between SAAS and Cloud, vendors are forgetting that they are selling applications. I think the disconnect right now is that Agents aren't comfortable...
Cloudy With a Chance of Rain
The news is filled with Cloud and mergers. Will it Rain?Rain is revenue. Will all these acquisitions turn into revenue? We’ll wait and see, but most big mergers do not see the synergies that were predicted.The big merger is The...
Is the Time Up on Colo?
Last week we saw restated guidance from Equinix about revenue for the year. All the sector stocks tanked, even Savvis although it raised its revenue estimate for the year.One thing that stock pickers don't understand is, um, the business that...
Tele-Pacific Acquires Some O1
"TelePacific Communications, the largest CLEC providing integrated voice and data telecommunications services to the small and medium-sized business ("SMB") customer segment in California and Nevada, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the SMB customer base and network of O1...
Is Hosted PBX Like BPM?
Business Process Management was a big concept about 5 years ago. The concept revolved around integrating business processes into systems for consistent execution of routines. (Heh! I can talk marketing speak!)Today, we have Hosted PBX coming into small and medium...
Latisys Lands a Rockstar
Latisys is a VC backed data center solutions company. Latisys was formerly Managed Data Holdings, a company founded in 1994, that was transformed and renamed in 2007 by a group of venture capital firms.Latisys is a leading provider of colocation,...
A Few Words with COLOTRAQ
Dany Bouchedid is not only the President of the Technology Channel Association, the only not-for-profit association for channel partners, but he is the CEO of COLOTRAQ. Colotraq is a sort of master agency for collocation worldwide, that has direct agreements...
How to Optimize a WAN
My buddy, Derek Thompson, just started at Fishnet Security. Besides peddling Bluecoat and SonicWall Managed Services, he is also selling WAN Optimization. While I have heard of this, I had no idea what it was or how it worked. So...
Data Center of the Future
This is an interesting way to market a Data Center: Carpathia Hosting is using an e-book!Data Center of the Future: the IntroductionChapter 1: Security, Privacy and Risk ManagementChapter 2:Monitoring, Management & Service FrameworksChapter 3: Datacenter Optimization Services - coming soon!...
Cloud Storage by Mail
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...
Data Center Rumors
In case you didn't hear Oracle bought Sun. Open Source folks are worried and so are Sun customers. Nuvox opened a new 5,000 square foot data center at 421 West Church Street in Jacksonville FL, which is THE telecom hotel...
CIO's Top Tech Investments
Robert Half interviewed 1400 CIO's for a research study (press release here), It's not a surprising list: Security, VOIP, Virtualization, SAAS, and data center efficiency. Considering power costs much more than space, getting energy and hardware efficient means cost savings....
RapidLink Data Center Opens
Rapid Link, Inc. opens a 3000 square foot data center north of Atlanta at Spaghetti Junction in Doraville, GA. Rapid Link's data center will have access via fiber and wireless.The first customers will be moving into the space in January,...
AIS is San Diego Collocation
Back in September, American Internet Services announced a CEO change at the Grand Opening of their Tier 4 data center in San Diego. Alessandra Carrasco was promoting from EVP and COO will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer. I...
