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OpenStack is ready, but are you? Get some operational cloud mojo and get started! #OpenStack #CloudOps « Rob Hirschfeld's Blog So here in 2011, we have the same challenge with cloud. (The majority of) Dell’s customers do not know how to operate a hyperscale data center because there is no commonly accepted pattern. That’s where [...]
Tata Communications Launches International Cloud Services in Singapore | Telecom Ramblings Newswire IDC forecasts that over the next five years, Asia Pacific spending on IT cloud services will grow fourfold, reaching USD$ 4.6 billion by 2014. Spend on cloud computing will accelerate through the forecast period, with a forecasted CAGR of more than 40% across [...]
Bits or pieces?: Private vs Enterprise Clouds Do Enterprise Clouds have a future? Yes, but they'll ultimately tend towards niche (specific classes of SLAs, network speeds, security requirements etc). Their role is principally in mitigating disruption risks but the transitional costs they seek to avoid can only be done at an increasing operational penalty. It [...]
Best Online Collaboration Tools 2011 Updated weekly – MindMeister Mind Map (tags: collacobration 2011) Deloitte Report: How Enterprise Collaboration Improves Business (tags: collaboration 2011)
Telecommunication Companies: Can Telcos still innovate and be relevant? – Quora There are two dimensions to this. Structural i.e. do telcos have relevant assets that would enable them to capture value going forward? And then cultural – are telcos capable of the DNA reset needed to compete with their emergent competitors (e.g. Facebook, Google, etc.)? [...]
Coach Weber's USA Ultramarathon Calendar (tags: ultra calendar)
Luxury Santa Fe Resort, Hotel Santa Fe – Encantado Resort and Spa (tags: hotels)
Virtual desktop alternatives to Citrix and VMware (tags: vdi daas)
How Green is Cloud Computing? – GreenMonk: the blog This is a graph of traffic to the website of the Australian Open tennis championship. As you can see, the traffic spikes in January every year and then all but disappears for the other 11 months of the year. It is also important to note that [...]
The Rise of the Gigabyte Phone: Tech News « According to London-based market research firm, Informa Research, an average smartphone (globally) consumes a mere 85 megabytes of data every month. Nearly 13 percent of world’s phones qualify as smartphones, and these phones are generating two-thirds of all traffic on mobile cell networks, Informa notes. For [...]
Verizon vs. Amazon in the Clouds — Seeking Alpha AWS’s claim to fame in the cloud computing arena has been the hyper-elasticity and minuscule price-points of its IaaS solutions, which are bolstered by a myriad of third-party tools vendors. These services have primarily appealed to tech-savvy users, large and small, willing to cobble together these [...]
Differentiated Services from the Service Provider Cloud – SP360: Service Provider (tags: sp telco cloud cisco)
Light Reading – Service Provider IT – The SPIT Manifesto – Telecom Report (tags: SPIT telco cloud) Light Reading Europe – IP & Convergence – SDPs Need a Revamp, Says Carrier – Telecom News Analysis Paulo Simões, TMN's head of R&D, and whose role includes advising Portugal Telecom (PT) on its SDP platform and vendor [...]
Perspectives on Cloud Computing: What is Telecom’s Role? – Event Summary | Online Registration by Cvent Perspectives on Cloud Computing: What is Telecom’s Role? Wednesday, September 29th at 12:00 PM Everyone in the Telecom and IT industries seems to have their heads in the Cloud. It’s a feeding frenzy these days. But according to Gartner, [...]
What's next for OpenStack's cloud efforts | Software, Interrupted – CNET News (tags: openstack cloud open rackspace) HP Blogs – Networking and Cloud, the forgotten link – The HP Blog Hub I have just spent a week in Korea and Japan meeting with customers on the subject of Cloud. I can tell you, the subject [...]
HP Software Solutions Presentations Channel (tags: cloud hp) Citrix's Confusing Open Cloud Strategy | CloudAve (tags: citrix open cloud) Sam Johnston: Citrix OpenCloud™ is neither Open nor Cloud (tags: citrix cloud open) Light Reading – Service Provider IT – Verizon, VMware Create Cloud Services – Telecom News Analysis (tags: telco verizon vmware cloud)
CIO Committee Calls for Cloud | Telecom News Now – The JS&A Blog (tags: telco cio cloud)
TM Forum and BT Unveil Catalyst Project to Address Cloud Computing Issues · Telecom Billing OSS News Review (tags: telco cloud) eComm2010: Emerging Communications Conference (tags: telco emerging communications)
For Action-Sports Enthusiasts, There’s Tough Mudder’s Grueling Course – NYTimes.com (tags: awesome race)
Service Provider Insider (tags: cloud excellent blog) Profiles: Cloud Enabling Solutions | IT Industry Analyst Firm, Neovise (tags: cloud partners)
Lazy, Hazy, Crazy: The 10 Laws of Behavioral Cloudonomics Excellent post by Joe Weinman about the irrational and behavioural side of cloud purchasing. Just as applicable to Cleantech irrationality. (tags: Cloud behaviorj Cleantech)
LEDs Poised to Outshine All Others in $4.4B Lighting Market | Buildings | GreenBiz.com A new study from Pike Research forecasts that LEDs will account for almost half of a $4.4 billion market for lamps in the commercial, industrial and outdoor stationary sectors by 2020. Almost 18 percent of global electricity use goes toward lighting, [...]
EDF Climate Corps 2010: The Drive for Energy Efficiency Grows | Climate | GreenBiz.com But there’s one solution to the climate crisis that we don’t need to wait for — energy efficiency. The opportunity is enormous: A 2009 McKinsey report estimates that by 2020, the United States could reduce its annual energy consumption by 23 [...]
5 stages of xobni's growth and 5 pivots along the way (tags: leanstartup pivot casestudy)
World's Greenest Homes: Hong Kong Space Saver COOL video of a 330 square foot Hong Kong apartment. (tags: apartment architecture awesome cool design green home smallhome smallhouse)
U.S. Office Buildings Need to Get Smart, New Study Says | Buildings | GreenBiz.com In recent studies, Lux Research predicted that the green buildings market will grow from a current $144 billion to $277 billion in 2020, and the Continental Automated Buildings Association forecast significant growth in the systems market, pegged at $20 billion in [...]
Friedrich August von Hayek – Prize Lecture The Pretence of Knowledge The particular occasion of this lecture, combined with the chief practical problem which economists have to face today, have made the choice of its topic almost inevitable. On the one hand the still recent establishment of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science marks [...]
‘Green’ Building Retrofits To Be 20-30% of Commercial Projects By 2014 · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives reen building currently accounts for five to nine percent of the retrofit and renovation market activity by value, which equates to a $2 billion to $4 billion marketplace [...]
Unboxed – Lean Start-Ups Aim to Find Customers Quickly NYT writes about the lean startup. (tags: leanstartup)
Goodbye Career, Hello Success Goodbye Career, Hello Success – Randy Komisar on giving up on careers and getting a life. AWESOME read. (tags: success career life venture business startup lessons) Born to fail :: Idealog :: the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation (tags: leanstartup interview great)
