Stonly Baptiste : Behind the Cloud
Stonly Baptiste
Software developer and innovator for cloud applications.
| The goal of this blog is to make the architecture behind Cloud infrastructure easy to digest. We will analyze and review the technology behind cloud providers(like Amazon) and websites (like Facebook).

Hipsters' Love Hate Relationship with Technology, Maybe

Obsessed with a desire to avoid the chaotic, social technical life of modern society, hipsters find themselves in the state of "maybe"...

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On Screen Size, Apple is From Mars, Samsung from Venus

For many years now I have waxed poetic about the need for Apple to create a large screen phone. With the latest...

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"The contact center use case looks like a natural for WebRTC, but how will that work?"

“The contact center use case looks like a natural for WebRTC, but how will that work?” From our company’s viewpoint, implementing...

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Google's Deep Learning Systems

Using Google’s deep learning, you can have thousands of computers work on recognizing your speech – if only for a brief moment....

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Florida Broadband Litigation Woes

"Florida Rural Broadband Alliance, LLC (FRBA) is a regional collaboration of local governments, community activists and economic development agencies from rural and...

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Are Outages The New Normal?

This is a guest column from Peter Eisengrein, SVP Network Operations & Design, Evolve IP Last week one of the nation's largest...

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Impact of the New Video Codec H.265

In January, a new video codec called H.265 (also known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) was approved by the ITU-T. ...

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Higher Education for becoming a Cloud Service Provider

April 29, 2013

I love blogging here and I promise I'll be more active! Anyway in this update sometimes it's best to let the customer speak for you! While I am part of the team here at iIT I want to share what our partners are saying about our iIT University, which we have underway, but just recently announced. Here goes…

“Rather than simply dropping off some training packets or holding a webinar with multiple partners, independenceIT created a customized presentation that gives our sales, support and technical teams insights into effectively selling and managing cloud services,” said masterIT CEO Michael Drake.

4Ws and an H about Cloud

June 20, 2012

In this post we are going to use an investigative method to explore what "the Cloud" really is and what it means to you. We are using the power of the 4Ws and an H - Who? What? Where?

The Bandwidth Cost of Cloud

February 27, 2012

As you know by now, the cloud has everything to do with the internet. Without an internet connection, you will not have access to your resources. The question is, "how mucehh internet connection do you need?". Depending on the service, the numbers will vary as will the costs.

A Primer on Cloud Storage

February 17, 2012


Data storage is like space, it hates a void. As local storage devices have taken leaps from megabytes to gigabytes and terabytes so has grown our need to fill them with images, movies, and applications.

The current leap we are taking is away from local storage to cloud storage. Loosely defined, "the cloud", is software or hardware resources offered via the internet on a monthly and usage basis. Types of cloud storage solutions range from transactional storage such as Amazons S3 and Microsoft's Azure Storage, to virtual drives like Dropbox and Box.net, and online backup services like Mozy and Veddio.