Sep
13
2011
As enterprises continue their steady march toward the adoption of cloud services, the industry is working to address the major challenges of the shift. Much has been written regarding security of the cloud. How will data be protected? Does my data need to be encrypted, and if so at what level? What about backup? To …
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Aug
09
2011
As I hope you have seen, ADTRAN recently announced the acquisition of Bluesocket, a leading innovator in virtual wireless LAN solutions. Virtualization is a key component to scaling wireless networks. As enterprises become increasingly mobile and distributed, traditional controller based architectures become costly and cumbersome to manage. Bluesocket’s key innovation is the virtualization of the …
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Jun
15
2011
When you hear the term Service Creation, what comes to mind? It can encompass almost anything. If you narrow the scope to networking and communications you might gravitate to Unified Communications. UC is an opportunity for carriers, enterprises, and vendors to work together to enable Service Creation. Creativity is a key component of creation. How …
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Jun
01
2011
A few weeks ago, CenturyLink agreed to buy data center provider Savvis for a whopping $2.5 billion (or $3.2 billion if you count the debt assumption). This comes on the heels of the closure of their Qwest purchase and a few months behind another big data center purchase by a carrier: Verizon’s $1.4 billion purchase …
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May
25
2011
I don’t know about you, but I seem to see a lot of “aaS” usage these days. As cloud service ramp up and become a reality, everyone is piling on with some new service, idea of a service, or just another acronym for the alphabet soup. The important ones that get used (and overused) are: …
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