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07/07/2009
ABI: Cloud Will Transform Mobile Apps
Most of today’s applications need handsets with robust computing power, limiting their potential market. However, a new architecture based on software running in the cloud will drastically change the way mobile applications are developed, acquired, and used, according to a new study from ABI Research. This disruptive development could eclipse the current mobile application model […]
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07/06/2009
IBM Study: IT Plans Proceed Despite Economy
An IBM study of midsize organizations in 17 countries shows that companies have not been deterred from their plans for strategic IT initiatives, which range from information management and security management to social media and cloud computing – despite a clear recognition of the need to cut costs in a difficult economy. Based on an […]
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06/04/2009
IDC Reports on Cloud Billing
Market research and advisory firm IDC has released a study pointing to lessons that cloud computing providers can learn from telecommunications service providers about "rating" transactions. "The investment in billing systems for cloud computing is drawing upon the rigor, scale and technology experience of the telecommunications industry," said Elisabeth Rainge, director of NGN Operations, IDC, […]
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06/01/2009
ET/NCTA Technical Snapshots
The bent at ET was toward emerging as unfolding rather than new. Points given for pragmatism.
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05/27/2009
Open Range to Deploy Rural WiMAX Network
Well before the election of Barack Obama as president and the initiation of a national broadband stimulus plan, a Denver-based wireless broadband provider, Open Range Communications, was quietly working to deploy a major broadband network. In March 2008, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Utilities Program (RDUP) approved a $267 million loan for […]
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05/20/2009
Spirent Announces Testing for Terabit-Capacity Data Centers
Spirent Communications, a provider of integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems, has announced an approach to validating the performance of dynamic data centers. The approach offers a unified Layer 2-7 test architecture specifically designed to test the end-to-end performance of 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet fabrics, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) convergence, virtualized server networking, cloud […]