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You Want Money for a Data Center Buildout?
A couple years ago I attended several “fast pitch” competitions and events for entrepreneurs in Southern California, all designed to give startups a chance to “pitch” their ideas in about 60 seconds...
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OSS Development for the Modern Data Center
Modern Data Centers are very complex environments. Data center operators must have visibility into a wide range of integrated data bases, applications, and performance indicators to effectively...
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PTC 2015 Focuses on Submarine Cables and SDNs
In an informal survey of words used during seminars and discussions, two main themes are emerging at the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s 2015 annual conference. The first, as expected, is...
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PTC 2015 Wraps Up with Strong Messages on SDNs and Automation
Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization (NVF) themes dominated workshops and side conversations throughout the PTC 2015 venue in Honolulu, Hawai’i this week. SDNs, or more...
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Risk Management Strategies for IT Systems
Risk management has been around for a long time. Financial managers run risk assessments for nearly all business models, and the idea of risk carries nearly as many definitions as the Internet....
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SDNs in the Carrier Hotel
Carrier hotels are an integral part of global communications infrastructure. The carrier hotel serves a vital function, specifically the role of a common point of interconnection between...
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Can IT Standards Facilitate Innovation?
IT professionals continue to debate the benefits of standardization versus the benefits of innovation, and the potential of standards inhibiting engineer and software developer ability to develop...
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The Changing Face of Technology and Innovation
A friend of mine’s son recently returned from an extended absence which basically removed him from nearly all aspects of technology, including the Internet, for a bit longer than 5 years. Upon return,...
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The Changing Role of IT Professionals
Information Technology is a great field. With technology advancing at the speed of sound, there is never a period when IT becomes boring, or hits an intellectual wall. New devices, new software, more...
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The Trouble with IT Disintermediation
I have a client who is concerned with some of their departments bypassing the organization’s traditional IT resource acquisition process, and going directly to cloud vendors for their IT resource...
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