Cisco – More Bad News
More bad news today for Cisco (ticker CSCO) as the hits keep on coming. The company has released their financial results for their most recent third fiscal quarter and, while results met or exceeded…
LucidChart Launches Offline, Accessibility Features at Google I/O
By Cherr Aira
Collaboration, graphics and accessibility are red hot topics at the ongoing Google I/O Conference. The two-day event featured a Google TV revamp, some explosive bombs from Android, several Chrome developments including Chrome OS, its browser-based…
Consumerization of IT, Need for Speed Challenge IT Admins
Business is moving at such high speed now that many customers are looking to consultants not just for traditional advisory services, but for pre-defined technology solutions, according to Accenture partner Mike Montalto. For many…
Interview with InterNAP @ Interop 2011
By Art Fewell
I had the chance to sit down with Paul Carmody, SVP of Product Managment and Bobby Minnnear, VP of Engineering for InterNAP, regarding their announcement of IAAS services with 100% Uptime SLA, @ Interop…
Interview with ‘Best of Interop’ finalist NEC @ Interop 2011
By Art Fewell
Today I had the chance to sit down with Don Clark, Director of Business Development for NEC, to discuss NEC’s launch of the first commercially available OpenFlow compliant products, @ Interop Las Vegas 2011…
Big Data processing, flexible analytics tools key to understanding customer lifecycle
If you want to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, you’d better understand your customers’ entire lifecycle. “If a customer comes at you from one viewpoint, maybe the web, and you…
Embracing Change: Highlights from Keynotes at Interop
By Art Fewell
In any technology conference keynote, the main message is always commentary on the latest advancements in technology, and the same is true of this morning’s keynotes. Beyond focusing solely on new trends and products,…
Collaboration is Power
Box.net has combined a simple idea – people want to share electronic files of all kinds on whatever devices they want to use – with the latest communications technology and a very clean, focused…
TLD, aka Predator, Kinect-like Open Source Tracking Algorithms
By Kyt Dotson
The Microsoft Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 is more than just a fancy camera with a microphone attached—it’s a culmination of hardware and software that work together to drive tracking information out of…
Online Video to the TV Ad Rescue
Nielsen recently reported that the number of TV homes in the U.S. has dropped due in part to younger consumers going without paid TV. Online viewing may fill in the gap though, because the…