Can the promise of cloud live up to the hype? Part 2
Updated: 2011-03-31 03:44:19
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 IETF 80 in Prague This Week Voxeo’s Dan Burnett Is There SIPNOC 2011 Coming Up April 25-27 Schedule and Speakers Now Posted March 30th , 2011 by Dan York As I mentioned before this year the SIP Forum is holding its first ever SIPNOC : The SIP Network Operators Conference event on April 25-27 in Herndon , Virginia , just outside of Washington , DC . The abstract of the event : is SIPNOC is a unique event for service providers and carriers to gather to discuss the challenges of deploying and implementing SIP-based communications technology , and to learn the best-practices and strategies that enable the successful and profitable operation of SIP-based services and applications . SIPNOC is not a sales event , a marketing event , nor an
, , Unified Self-Service Voice SMS IM Mobile Web Twitter Slides available for yesterday’s Jam Session on building Twitter apps See A Multi-Channel App in Action voice , IM , mobile web March 30th , 2011 by Dan York Want to see a multi-channel application in action As part of our announcement today about expanded capabilities of VoiceObjects On-Demand I put together this video that shows a single application running up in Voxeo’s hosted cloud interacting with users : via voice through a regular phone call instant messaging IM through Jabber a web browser on my desktop but it could have been through a mobile browser on a smartphone Now , the phone number for the app also supports SMS , so I could have sent a SMS message to the app from my phone . I chose not to do so purely because it meant
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I've got another session presentation coming up that I'd thought I share. Kinaxis will be participating at the Extended Supply Chain 2011 conference taking place on April 5-6 in London, UK. I'll be presenting the session, "Do you trust yourself to collaborate?"
The presentation is an expansion of a blog post I wrote the other month. [...]
Speaking of Standards A Voxeo view on industry standards How To Participate in IETF 80 Remotely Via Audio , Jabber and WebEx SIPNOC 2011 Coming Up April 25-27 Schedule and Speakers Now Posted IETF 80 in Prague This Week Voxeo’s Dan Burnett Is There March 28th , 2011 by Dan York The 80th Meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force a.k.a . IETF 80 is happening this week in Prague , Czech Republic , and Dan Burnett , Voxeo’s Director of Speech Technologies , is on the ground there attending sessions on Voxeo’s . behalf If you’d like to meet up with him , you can contact him at dburnett voxeo.com Odds are that you’ll also find him in most of the RAI” Realtime Applications and Infrastructure area sessions as those are the ones dealing with SIP and the other protocols important to the kind of
The Rackspace Cloud Files team is pleased to announce that we now support extremely large file sizes by allowing customers to use multipart uploads. I really do mean extremely large files. In very simple terms, we accomplish this by having users segment their large files and upload a manifest file that maps their segments. The [...]
Speaking of Standards A Voxeo view on industry standards Microsoft Seeks to Pay 7.5 Million for Nortel’s IPv4 Address Block How To Participate in IETF 80 Remotely Via Audio , Jabber and WebEx IPv6 Status Survey Finds a Whole Lot of FAIL March 25th , 2011 by Dan York Where is IPv6 actually being used Inspired by a presentation he saw , Mark Prior decided to go out and survey sites from various universities , Internet Service Providers ISPs corporations and other entities to see who was actually using IPv6 on a daily . basis His survey criteria were pretty : straightforward 1.Web server accessible via IPv6 2.Email deliverable via IPv6 3.DNS name servers accessible via IPv6 4.An NTP service accessible via IPv6 and 5.A Jabber service accessible via IPv6 What he found , though , was a whole lot
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Voxeo Developers Corner Tips , tricks and tutorials about developing applications on Voxeo platforms Click To Dial : a converged application on Voxeo Prism Video : How to Get Started with VoiceObjects On-Demand to Build Voice , SMS , IM and Mobile Web Apps How to make Voxeo Prism to talk to PSTN March 24th , 2011 by Wei Chen If you have tried Click-To-Dial example you might wonder if it is possible to call your home phone or cellular phone , besides the SIP phones . It is definitely possible with Voxeo Prism In SIP Servlet , a PSTN phone number is represented by a TelURL object based on RFC 3966 For example , here is the code snippet to generate a TelURL object for 407-555-1212. URI target sipFactory.createURI( tel : 1-407-555-1212 Once you have a TelURL you can use it the same way as a
Behind The Blog A blog about a blog site a view inside a WordPress MU installation Using WordPress with Cassandra or other NoSQL databases WordPress for iPad Makes A Great Comment Command Center For A Blog Network March 24th , 2011 by Dan York When running a site like the Voxeo blog portal that features a network” of different Voxeo blogs one of the ongoing challenges is handling comments . Not whether or not to allow comments we have a very clear comment policy and publish all comments that comply but rather just dealing with all the comment spam and moderating those comments that get through . We pay for an Akismet subscription , and that catches the vast majority of spam that hits our blog comments , but I also run the blogs in the moderation mode that requires your first comment to be
So we do a lot of playing around over here in Labs, and personally I am always looking for ways to make development a bit easier and improve my workflow. Well my friends, I think I finally found “the one” – its called SourceKit and it’s pretty damn cool. It’s a text editor [...]
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Speaking of Standards A Voxeo view on industry standards Mozilla Launches Web O’Wonder” To Showcase HTML5 in Firefox 4 IPv6 Status Survey Finds a Whole Lot of FAIL Microsoft Seeks to Pay 7.5 Million for Nortel’s IPv4 Address Block March 24th , 2011 by Dan York With the end of IPv4 address allocations it’s no surprise to see that blocks of the remaining IPv4 addresses will be put up for sale . In this case , though , I was surprised by the buyer . Nortel Networks , Inc . has petitioned the bankruptcy court to allow it to sell a block of 666,624 IPv4 addresses to none other than Microsoft for the nice price of 7.5 . million The court document makes for interesting reading , and says this about the address block in question NNI” Nortel Networks Inc” The Internet Numbers consist of 666,624
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Today we’re pleased to announce the Rackspace Cloud Domain Name Service (DNS) API Private Beta to US and UK Cloud Customers by invitation only. This service will allow customers to programmatically create and manage their DNS records. Currently, the operations available through the API include: • List, add, modify, and remove domains • List, add, [...]
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Mike Mayo is the mobile apps developer for Rackspace. If you’re interested in joining his team, click here. Today I’m excited to announce the release of Rackspace Cloud 2.0 for for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch – something I’ve been working hard on to build. This app is a complete rewrite of our existing [...]
Ben is the founder and managing director of Diversity Limited, a consultancy specializing in cloud computing/SaaS, collaboration, business strategy and user-centric design. In my travels running CloudCamps and other events, I’m surprised by how often people have questions around the definition of Cloud Computing – those of us who “talk the Cloud” every ay sometimes forget [...]
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In only 8 months, the OpenStack™ community has grown to more than 50 organizations and 1,000 individuals to help influence and build the open cloud standard. With such great progress and our recent acquisition of Anso Labs, a service company that has helped large business and government organizations deploy and operate OpenStack clouds, the timing [...]
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