Is QoS reemerging from the dead?

Next week at Voicecon, I will be presenting in a track about getting enterprise networks ready for voice and video communications. Which prompts 2 thoughts: First of all, I started my career as a software engineer for Class 5 voice …Read more.

Posted by Paul Liesenberg on March 30, 2009

What happens when clouds rain?

Earlier this week Google experienced another embarrassing outage, this time a crash caused their email program to be unavailable to an unknown number (although apparently extensive percentage) of users.  This brings up an interesting question, what happens when the cloud …Read more.

Posted by Matthew Stein on February 25, 2009

Independence with clouds is the way to innovation

There was a time in the not so distant past when employees at major companies needed to schedule time to use IT resources.  The mainframes which could run specialized applications would run ‘jobs’ late in the evening and return results …Read more.

Posted by Matthew Stein on February 10, 2009

Can Man (I mean applications) ever truly be an island?

In the late 1500s John Donne postulated that “No man is an island, entirely of itself”.  In essence that we impact each other, outside factors affect us and more importantly we leave an impression on others.  This thought that to …Read more.

Posted by Matthew Stein on February 02, 2009