Can the promise of cloud live up to the hype? Part 2
Updated: 2011-02-28 16:47:43
Two IT leaders assess how much of the cloud model is realizable today and how much is illusion and wordplay. Here, JP Rangaswami, chief scientist at Salesforce.com — and a former CIO and IT trailblazer at telco BT and investment bank DrKW — argues that cloud represents a global inflection point for enterprise IT.

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Speaking of Standards A Voxeo view on industry standards FierceTelecom The Next IPv6 Challenge is Getting Devices Into The Home XKCD Comic Takes on IPv6 and IPv4 Address Exhaustion February 28th , 2011 by Dan York Kudos to Randall Munroe for his recent XKCD comic Naturally there was a forum discussion around the mathematics of this and it also received similar examination in the IETF-discuss mailing list P.S . Hat tip to Pete Resnick for posting the link to the ietf-discuss list Related : posts Watch LIVE the 9:30am IPv4 Address Exhaustion Announcement by IANA , ICANN , ISOC Shall we use IPcalypse” or IPocalypse” for the hype around the IPv4 address exhaustion Need an IPv6 Address for Documentation or Examples Use this range FOX News Joins the Chorus of IPv4 IPv6 IPocalypse Stories How to
Account Login How it Works Pricing Docs Get Help Blog How to Build a Reminder Service Using Tropo and Ruby on Rails February 27th , 2011 by cmatthieu Have you ever thought about starting a Reminder Service company and getting millions of dollars in funding all from a weekend project Tropo is here to help you with your communications needs in this endeavor The Reminder Service source code that I am about to share with you was started on the Nerd Bird good to have in-flight WiFi from Orlando to Phoenix , on my way back from the HIMSS conference . It’s written in Ruby on Rails 3.0.4 and the Tropo Scripting API This is Tropo application is designed to demonstrate building a Reminder Service application using both Voice and SMS alerts . The application will place an outbound reminder call to
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Account Login How it Works Pricing Docs Get Help Blog New Tropo Scripting API Tutorial The Chance Facilitator February 26th , 2011 by Justin Dupree Since random number generation is a common first app” for people learning a new language , we decided to add a new tutorial showing an application that utilizes the math functions of each of the five supported languages JavaScript Ruby PHP Python Groovy to create the Chance Facilitator in . Tropo It allows you to roll a six sided die , twenty sided die , flip a coin or throw rocks , paper , scissors . It works over voice and SMS , asks a question , allows for multiple bad choices , utilizes grammars and call properties all around a solid example to get you started on several of the primary capabilities of Tropo . Each of the following code
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: Voxeo Talks A view inside Voxeo Join Voxeo at Enterprise Connect to Learn About SIP , Open Source 7 Questions About Cloud Vs Premise : The Complete List February 26th , 2011 by Dan York Tweet What are some of the questions you should consider when debating whether to launch an application in the cloud” or deploy the app on your premises In this series of blog posts coming out of our webinar , Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications : Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid I’ve been answering these : questions 1 Can the cloud offer better capabilities than what you can deliver in your enterprise 2 Can you deploy faster into the cloud 3. Is the same software used on your premise and in the cloud 4 Are you locked in to the cloud provider or can you move to another vendor 5 Can you
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Account Login How it Works Pricing Docs Get Help Blog South Beach Startup Drinkup Tonight February 25th , 2011 by Diggz Join Voxeo Labs and Tropo for some free tasty beverages at the First South Beach Startup Drinkup on Friday February 25, 2011 from 8pm to 11pm : at Kill Your Idols 222 Espanola Way Miami Beach , FL 33139 Check it out : South Beach Startup Drinkup on Plancast for more . details Bonus points for playing songs from Johnny Diggz’ album in the jukebox . Related : posts Palo Alto Startup Drinkup Wednesday 1 12 Join Tropo at SuperConf Feb 25-26 Miami Beach Philadelphia Startup Drinkup Pitching to Win at Philly Startup Weekend Tropo Sponsors Startup Weekend Phoenix Tags : drinkup event meetup startup You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed . You can
We’re pleased to announce that Rackspace Cloud Files now supports Edge Purge via the Cloud Files API. This feature allows customers to quickly edit or delete content on the edge server. When an object is CDN enabled and requested from an end user, the object is cached at the edge. That object remains unchanged, untouched, [...]
I spotted this article from the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago and a couple of points caught my eye. First, 2010 was a record breaking year for natural and man-made disasters. We had a virtual smorgasbord of catastrophes from flooding, to fire, to snowstorms. We had Volcanoes grounding air travel and earthquakes devastating [...]
This post was written by Brian Doll, Application Performance Engineer at New Relic, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner Deploying apps on the Rackspace Cloud? Read on–we’ve got some great news for you. We are very pleased to announce today a new partnership with Rackspace that makes New Relic’s SaaS-based application management tool available to Rackspace [...]
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More and more businesses are shifting from using cloud computing solely for testing and development to extending pieces of their production environments into the cloud. With this shift, IT decision makers are now faced with a whole new set of considerations. If downtime in your internal infrastructure or core product offerings negatively impacts your bottom [...]
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In addition to being able to place and receive SIP-based phone calls to and from our browser using PhonoSDK, you can also use it to interact with XMPP-based IM clients such as GTalk and Jabber using jQuery.
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Welcome Guest . Log In Register Benefits Home News Blogs Video Slideshows RSS Feeds Subscribe Newsletters Events Digital Library Software Security Hardware Mobility Windows Internet Global CIO Government Healthcare Financial SMB Personal Tech Cloud Tweet Share Permalink How To Reduce IT Service Costs In The Cloud In the shift from on-premises software to cloud computing , IT teams are still paying consulting and support fees that may be unnecessary . That's about to change . By Alok Misra InformationWeek February 17, 2011 09:58 AM Businesses seem to have accepted that cloud computing leads to lower IT costs , and it’s true that many companies experience some savings in switching to the cloud . Yet , the total cost of ownership for most is still up to 50 more than it should be . Here’s why
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Click here for our mobile site Home Video Tutorials Webinars Message Boards Join Login About Us Search End-User Focus Is Key to Success in the Cloud Written by Jeff Kaplan 2 4 2011 5 comments no ratings Login to Rate DISCUSS Email This Tweet This My recent blog about the continuing division between IT infrastructure engineers and software architects generated some interesting comments . Although Im glad that others recognize the same problem and agree we need to bridge this gap , I think this lingering problem must be resolved quickly . Corporate end users and executives are no longer willing to wait for their in-house engineers and architects to overcome their differences so they can address the organizations business needs . The rapid growth of cloud computing services has been fueled
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It's hard to believe it has been a month since we launched Episode 1 of 'New Kinexions' – a six part comedy series which draws parallels between dysfunctional software and an annoying ex. If you haven't watched them yet, make sure to check out Episodes 1-5 in the Just for Laughs section of the Supply [...]
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I spend a lot of time traveling all around the world talking about Cloud Computing. Often I end up talking to IT and financial folks who want to have a discussion about cost, usually it goes along the lines of “But cloud WILL save me money won’t it?” I’m kind of against these sort of [...]
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This post was composed by Issac Roth, Director of Product Marketing – Cloud Solutions at Red Hat Red Hat’s Makara team is pleased to announce the availability of the Makara Cloud Application Platform for use with The Rackspace Cloud. Makara is a Platform-as-a-Service that allows you to deploy, manage, monitor and auto-scale your new or [...]
As a veteran (26 years) of software development and quality assurance, I am a huge proponent of Software as a Service (SaaS). It is a win-win for vendors and customers. Mainly because vendors always want customers running on their latest versions software (best quality, most features) and although customers want the same thing, they don't [...]
Building a Multi-channel Distribution Strategy For SaaS, Web App, and Cloud companies the “if you build it they will come” assumption is not just wrong, but can be costly. While Cloud adoption and excitement have dramatically expanded the market for SaaS applications, there is a downside; the signal to noise ratio is decreasing making it [...]
Beta Community Blog Company FAQ Partners ENABLING PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE CumuLogic Cloud Application Management Platform enables Enterprises , Cloud Service Providers and ISVs to build and manage Java Platform-as-a-Service PaaS in private , public and hybrid cloud . environments CumuLogic Is Enterprise IT Losing Control over Public Cloud Usage Why a Java PaaS Enablement Solution CumuLogic was founded with the thinking that although Infrastructure-as-a-Service IaaS brought agility to enterprise IT and provided the scalability and elasticity needed for constantly changing business needs , it didn’t provide enough value to enterprise IT which is still required to install , configure , optimize and standup the application infrastructure stack for running various applications . All the tasks
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It’s great to get recognized in whatever industry your company is in, and at Rackspace, we want to be the leader in hosting and cloud computing. One of the many places that track the cloud race is jackofallclouds.com, which started tracking websites hosted on the top cloud providers back in July 2009. In a recent [...]
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More and more independent software vendors that deliver their software via the on-premises model, will look to create a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering in order to be competitive. Why are more and more software companies making this transition? Because customers are looking for the benefits SaaS offerings can provide. The benefits are well [...]
, about contact print search Networking Exchange Blog AT T Business Services a place for business leaders to learn , share , and engage with networking experts on advancing business goals through technology . innovation Home Business Growth Tech Innovation Networking Exchange Blog a place for business leaders to learn , share , and engage with networking experts on advancing business goals through technology . innovation Business Growth It May Be In The Cloud , But Does That Matter A Look into Virtualized Desktops Category : Business Growth February 1st , 2011 by Joey Widener Leave a Comment Historically we’ve asked customers about their network needs–how many locations , how many ports , etc . But that conversation is changing . This is evidenced by the focus on applications throughout
866 578-6127 Products Resources Getting Started White Papers Data Sheet Webinars How-To Videos Analyst Reports Customers Company About CloudSwitch Management Team Board of Directors Investors Careers Contact Us Blog Partners Technology Partners Consulting Partners News Events Media Coverage Events Press Releases Awards Blog Subscribe Customer Login Enterprise Cloud Computing Blog Don't Touch Your Routers Extend Your Internal Network Topologies into the Cloud Posted by Pavan Pant on Feb 01, 2011 at 8:10 AM Digg Reddit Delicious StumbleUpon Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Buzz By Pavan Pant One of the questions foremost in the minds of our customers is related to how their internal network topology will translate to the cloud . Every enterprise has a unique network infrastructure which includes