With dozens of public cloud service providers on the market, offering a wide
variety of services, standards, SLAs, and options, how does an IT manager
make an informed decision on which provider to use? Is it time in business?
Location? Cost? Performance?
Pacific-Tier Communications met up with Jason Read, owner of CloudHarmony, a
company specializing in benchmarking the cloud, at Studio City, California,
on 25 October. Read understands how confusing and difficult it is to
evaluate different service providers without an industry-standard
benchmark. In fact, Read started CloudHarmony based on his own frustrations
as a consultant helping a client choose a public cloud service provider,
while attempting to sort through vague cloud resource and service terms used
by industry vendors.
“Cloud is so different. Vendors describe resources using vague terminology
like 1 ... (more)
During his October 6th speech on Universal Service Fund (USF) and
InterCarrier Compensation (ICC) reform, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
admitted the United States has not adequately fulfilled our obligation to
deliver broadband Internet and communications services to all areas of the
country. Genachowski noted “harm from not having (access to) broadband
– the costs of digital exclusion – already high, are growing every
day.” He continued “The broadband divide means economic opportunities
denied for ordinary consumers who lack broadband access; educational
opportunities dimi... (more)
Data Center Automation on Ulitzer
Data center selection is an exercise in compromise. Everybody would like to
have the best of all worlds, with a highly connected facility offering 24x7
smart hands support, impenetrable security, protection from all natural and
man-made disasters, in addition to service level agreements offering 5-Nines
power availability at $.03/kW. Not likely we will be able to hit all those
desired features in any single facility.
Data center operators price their facilities and colocation based on several
factors:
Cost of real estate in their market Cost of ... (more)
What can you do when your company data in locked in legacy applications such
as DB2, Sybase, Oracle 10, or other proprietary systems when you want to
graduate into the age of cloud computing and SaaS? According to Mark
Cashman, CEO of Queplix, the answer lies in having a tool to discover what
data resides in existing systems, classify the data, and make that data
available for future applications and reporting.
“We are out to solve the data discovery and integration problem that exists
today,” says Cashman. “Some of the largest companies in the world still
have challenges inte... (more)
Bjarni Thorvardarson is a rare telecom visionary. He thinks on a level of
telecoms at an intercontinental level, rather than a national or local
level. Hibernia Atlantic is his current project, and with recent news that
the submarine and terrestrial cable system is now in the global media
distribution business, he is shaking up the telecom community. An Icelandic
native, he has brought his knowledge and skills to the United States, basing
Hibernia Atlantic in Summit, New Jersey.
Pacific-Tier: Bjarni, what's been happening with Hibernia Atlantic in the
past few years, since I ha... (more)