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Brokering a Better Cloud Position for the Enterprise

6 Dec, 2012 14:34 CET  -   Current Analysis
IT Connection by Amy DeCarlo
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· With the emphasis on cost competitiveness and transparency, distinguishing features can quickly fall away in the cloud.
· Some providers respond by stepping up to strategic roles as chief advocates for their clients, aggregating services and supplying mechanisms to streamline provisioning and management.

In an environment where providers trumpet similar...

Networks Do Matter – Really!

13 Nov, 2012 14:54 CET  -   Current Analysis
IT Connection Blog by Jeremiah Caron
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· Networks and networking suffer from a lack of respect that defies logic.
· Innovation continues apace, however, the industry often fails to give these advances the attention they deserve.

Networks and the stuff that make them work are suffering from a dearth of respect to which even Rodney Dangerfield would have to defer. Sure, we all know that it...

WAN Optimization: Limited to International Networks or Also Suited to Local In-C...

1 Nov, 2012 13:50 CET  -   Current Analysis
IT Connection Blog by Joel Stradling
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· Provider-managed WAN optimization is less likely to be used in the U.S. market due to the widespread availability of cost-effective bandwidth across major towns and cities.
· A number of pan-European and UK carriers report take-up of managed WAN optimization in domestic-only networks.

WAN optimization can be a costly component and there is always going...

Interop New York 2012: A Variably Cloudy Perspective

11 Oct, 2012 13:00 CET  -   Current Analysis
IT Connection Blog by Mike Spanbauer
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· The market early optimism towards cloud may have been tempered due to skeptics and the overuse of ‘cloud washing’ campaigns (i.e., everything in the cloud, attached to the cloud, or solved by a cloud of some sort)
· Enterprises remain optimistic though as many have embraced some form of cloud with measured success and asked good questions about what to...

Interop New York: Successful Cloud Transformations Start with Well-Defined Migra...

10 Oct, 2012 17:00 CET  -   Current Analysis
IT Connection Bog by Amy Larsen DeCarlo
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· Organizations emerging from experimental to broader cloud deployments are running into hurdles in full-scale on-demand implementations
· Acute challenges relate to enterprises’ lack of internal cloud expertise

For all of its many potential benefits, the cloud also comes with a myriad obstacles and challenges attached that are daunting enough to keep...

Liberty Center One Embarks on Expansion Project

1 Oct, 2012 23:19 CET  -   Liberty Center One
Royal Oak, MI. October 1, 2012.  Liberty Center One, a provider of high availability hosting services announces an expansion of its data center floor capacity. “Customer demand is out-pacing the amount of space we have available today” says President/CEO Rex Smith. “Our expansion plans at our Michigan data center will take advantage of the same core infrastructure which has...

Is Your Network Ready for the Software-Defined Data Center?

13 Sep, 2012 14:23 CET  -   Current Analysis
IT Connection Blog by Mike Spanbauer
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· The software-defined data center is a concept that encapsulates networking, virtualization, storage, orchestration, and ultimately, a truly agile framework.
· Orchestration and manageability must be designed into a solution, rather than being bolted on, to yield the best results.

It became evident during VMworld that the notion of a software-defined...

What Does VMware Mean to You?

5 Sep, 2012 13:00 CET  -   Current Analysis
IT Connection Blog by Jeremiah Caron
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· VMware’s VMworld was a hit again, pulling in partners and customers alike
· The buzz around VMware is about much more than simple virtualization software

I did not attend last week’s VMworld in Las Vegas, hosted of course by VMware, the virtualization software market leader. I wish I had, though. While timing and location prevented my...

Crossing the Cloud Chasm: Learning from the U.S. Public Sector Advance

28 Aug, 2012 15:00 CET  -   Current Analysis
IT Connection Blog by Amy Larsen DeCarlo
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· The pressure is on organizations to leverage technology models like cloud services to improve efficiencies and cut costs, but many still struggle to produce workable on-demand computing strategies.
· Enterprises can learn from early adopters including the U.S. public sector, which has instituted mandates to encourage cloud use that should provide...

100G and 400G Long Haul Optical Connections Get Closer to the Enterprise

10 Aug, 2012 13:00 CET  -   Current Analysis
IT Connection Blog by Joel Stradling
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· Verizon, Interoute, euNetworks, Colt, TSIC, and others, are examples of service providers that have lit fibre assets with 100 Gbps wavelengths and Ethernet at the core transport layer
· Video, mobility, cloud-based computing and storage, and rapidly growing SaaS take-up are pushing the need for high-capacity service
· There is an on-going performance...