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How to Hack Infrastructure: Lessons from Enron and Switch
[Editor’s note: Wikibon co-founder and CEO David Vellante interviewed Jason Mendenhall, Executive VP of Switch (http://www.switchnap.com/) a co-location and cloud infrastructure provider, which has built the Super|Nap, the world’s highest density data center in Las Vegas. In this second of a series of pieces taken from the interview (http://www.siliconangle.tv/video/switch-home-supernap), they discuss the Inter-Cloud Exchange. Then ...
Switch and the Super|Nap: The Story of the World’s Highest Density Data Center
[Editors note: Wikibon co-founder and CEO David Vellante interviewed Jason Mendenhall, Executive VP of Switch (http://www.switchnap.com/) a co-location and cloud infrastructure provider, which has built the Super|Nap, the world’s highest density data center in Las Vegas. In this first of a series of pieces taken from the interview (http://www.siliconangle.tv/video/switch-home-supernap), they discuss the impressive “feeds and ...
The Ideal Handheld — Tablet vs. Smartphone vs. PDA
While the Apple iPad certainly has kicked off a mobile computing boom since it was announced last April, it is increasingly apparent that it, and competing tablets modeled after it, are not the only mobile answer. The iPad is proving to be an excellent device for entertainment and in particular for visual media consumption. As ...
David Flynn Sees Flash as Memory, not Storage, and Created Fusion-io to Make It So
“You have to ask yourself, ‘What would I do if I had a system with terabytes of memory and didn’t have to wait for all the data cached in that memory to get restored after a power outage because the memory held the data all the time?” says David Flynn, CEO of high-growth start-up Fusion-io. ...
EMC CIO Sanjay Mirchandani Talks About Virtualization from the CIO’s Perspective
Editor’s note: EMC CIO Sanjay Mirchandani took time out from WMworld 2010 recently to talk about virtualization at EMC with David Vellante, co-founder and CEO of online-consultancy Wikibon.org, on SiliconAngle.tv. The Q &A below was taken from the recording of the live webcast. David Vellante: So you have been out marketing the private cloud. Are ...
Virtualization, the Cloud, and Mobile Computing Combining to Create Computing Fourth Wave
Virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile computing are combining to create a new wave of computing with tremendous implications for business. This new wave is user-centric, platform independent, and extremely flexible and responsive to business and consumer needs. Most of all, it is platform independent, both on the front end where users may employ a Windows ...
How Google Voice Upped its Game
When Google introduced Google Voice a few months ago it sounded pretty much like a Skype clone for Google users. After an initial flurry of interest, it seems to have been all but forgotten outside of the subset of Gmail subscribers who use it. I have to admit that I not tried it. Now Google ...
Heineken Netherlands Solves its Migration, Data Management Issues, Supports Virtualization with Compellent
With 140 breweries in more than 70 countries creating 200 million hector liters of beer and cider a year, including a large export business to the United States from the three breweries of its base in Holland, Heineken Netherlands is one of the largest, worldwide brewery operations in the world. Its IT environment is demanding. ...
New-Generation Development Framework Changing the Game for Developer says VMware CTO Steve Harrod
New-generation development frameworks like VMforce (http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmforce.html), are changing the focus of software development and opening new opportunities for developers, says VMware CTO Steve Harrod. Interviewed on SiliconAngle.TV from VMworld2010 immediately after the announcement of VMforce, the new third-generation development platform being co-developed by VMware and salesforce.com, he said, “Developers want to write apps that reach ...
What is Wrong with IE6 – and Why Consumers and SMBs Should Leave it Behind
Facebook recently announced that it will stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 on its chat function with its next upgrade, planned for Sept. 15. With this move Facebook joins the German government and all the major security systems vendors in urging consumers and businesses to upgrade to IE 8 or to an alternative Web browser such ...