Cloud computing: The telcos' game to lose You're probably sick of hearing about cloud computing. I can't say I blame you. The buzz seems to be nearly deafening these days. And the most annoying part is that for those of us old enough to remember, it's "back to the future" all over again. Too Much Stuff in the Thing? Hey, you're probably reading this on your handset while you're out shopping for holiday gifts, and, if you're like me, you're probably looking at all of the cool new consumer electronics products available. A noticeable trend in recent years has been electronic devices becoming distinctly more multi-function in nature. When ISPs Turn on Meters Expect "Unexpected" Traffic If your ISP starts metering your Internet connection traffic, chances are you will see unexpected bytes register on your meter. That is because if you are like most Internet users, you don't know how much traffic your household produces. Here is a sampling of traffic sources that may surprise you. Top 10 areas that CIOs needs to focus on for 2010 I speak to executives from all over the world and the question I've been asked a lot in the past two months is "Larry, how can I improve our image?" Merry Christmas, Mr. Pettigrew Mark Gibbs relates how Fidelity Investment has pretty much ruined the Christmas of four of their employees for what the company considers "gambling" on company time. The problem is that it was hardly gambling. Let the punishment fit the crime? Hah! Story of the year: Newspapers and the Internet As the year winds down, columnist Scott Bradner has been trying to decide how to summarize 2009 Internet-wise. It seems to him that the continuing saga of the news business symbolizes yet another year of close-to-terminal, Internet-induced confusion for traditional businesses -- or, maybe, panic. Top Ten Scrooge List for SQL Server 2008 Thinking of Christmas as a special time of year invariably raises thoughts of the Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol". There's a little bit of Scrooge in all of us, waiting to be redeemed by a random act of kindness as we approach the holidays. In the spirit of the season, I started thinking about those features that Microsoft charges top-dollar for in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. Caught on tape: Burglars target wrong techie Maybe the Supreme Court ought to consider this scenario as it grapples with legal issues surrounding private electronic communications filtering into and out of the workplace.A Framingham, Mass., resident received an urgent text message at work on Friday. It was from his home computer reporting the presence of movement inside of his apartment, which he had equipped with a motion detector. Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet Carnegie Mellon University researcher Tom Mitchell says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data analysis that could be used to solve health, traffic and human behavior problems. via Twitter: No seriously, "Operation Chokehold" is incredibly stupid My favorite response, via Twitter today, to Fake Steve Jobs' "Operation Chokehold" scheme -- do lots of data-intensive things on your iPhone to bring AT&T's wireless network to it's knees for awhile -- is by Rich Brome, of phonescoop.com:"No seriously, 'Operation Chokehold' is incredibly stupid. What happens when someone dies because they can't reach 911 that hour?" Will 2010 Be "The Year of IPv6?" Any time you predict the imminent rise of IPv6 you have to do so with tongue firmly planted in cheek. I did a brief Google search and found articles dating back to the early 2000s predicting the oncoming year of IPv6. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet:Are Cisco's acquisitions working for the company? and iACLs; A Service Providers Best Practice on your LAN; On Microsoft Subnet Microsoft Exchange 2010: A hard upgrade and not yet in the cloud: On Google Subnet: 10 best Chrome extensions Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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