rlebherz wrote: Alf,
Interesting article. I think the Cloud services and cloud infrastructure lines are a bit blurred, but I agree with most of what you are saying.
Dont underestimate the SLA's role in accountability. For companies that have dynamic requirements and no down time can be afforded, make sure you have very tight SLAs. For example, OpSource provides a 100% SLA in the cloud and 100%SLA around production application environments. Now 100% is ideally perfect, it comes down to accountability, yo...
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Akamai Technologies today announced that EPIX, the next generation premium entertainment service from Viacom, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and MGM, has chosen Akamai as the company’s launch provider to deliver and manage its full length High Definition (HD) movies. EPIX is the leading...
I have not seen the stores in person, but from a distance I really, really like what Microsoft has done with its retail presence. Sure it looks vaguely familiar to Apple's stores, but big whoop. The wall to wall screens are brilliant. 
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To help you gear up for the holidays, blinkx has researched and compiled some of the season's best holiday-themed videos. Trimming the perfect tree, researching the latest must-have gadgets, making a flawless batch of eggnog, and discovering the finest holiday tunes are a snap this yea...
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The first "Ulitzer New Media Power Panel" took place today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Streamed live to 60,000 viewers via SYS-CON.TV, the panel was moderated by Jeremy Geelan. Geelan's guests in the first power panel were Ian Thain and Tim Crawford...
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Do you have digital camera? Do you record special events around you? Publish them on your website with the fast conversion without duration limit. Flash Video MX Std has been updated with better support to HD videos like AVCHD (MTS, M2TS), MOD, TOD formats.
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This week I begin a new series of video screencasts for Dell’s IT Expert Voice Web site. The site has all sorts of useful information for corporate IT folks that are interested in migrating and using Windows 7, and my humble part will be to produce a regular series of videos similar to...
The new Moyea Video4Web Converter V2.1 with optimized menu display pattern, fast video codec encoding speed and perfect bug-fixings, makes video to flash video conversion the easiest and quickest ever.
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I recently bought my first DSLR, the Nikon D90, which I have been having a blast with. One of the cool features of the camera, is that it supports creating HD video clips (of up to 5 minutes) (view an example here). However, the way the clips are created seems to confuse Adobe Premiere...
While Leno scored big in the ratings and public opinion for his premiere, mainstream media critics were not so kind. Reviews in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and USA Today all panned the show; many calling it a rehashed version of Leno's The Tonight Show The premiere, featu...
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By the way, if Ellen Degeneres wants to respond in a reasonable and constructive way to the lawsuits over her use of song snippets to dance to, she could always start using Creative Commons-licensed music, with a nice plug for the open-hearted musicians making our lives more tuney.
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The "Got Talent" franchise is world wide and is running in dozens of countries (Simon Cowell must be making a fortune!!).
The Ukraine winner is Kseniya Simonova who won with this amazing animation. If you look you will see that she is using only sand on top of a light table. It is ...
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Finally! Fantasy sports fans, get in your recliners and get seamless integration of online and offline worlds with Rallycast's ultimate fantasy sports and social networking experience for Internet-connected HDTV. Rallycast is a new TV App that manages fantasy teams from your HDTV remo...
I want to let you know about an upcoming "iPhone in the Enterprise" seminar that is being held in San Francisco on September 24, 2009. If you're in the Bay area, plan to come hear experts from AT&T, SAP and Sybase, about key strategies and best practices for deploying the iPhone in the...
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When former eBay CEO Meg Whitman - who now wants to be elected governor of California next year - bought Skype four years ago for $3.1 billion, that lavish price didn't buy her the code that actually runs the thing.
Fancy that.
As amazing as it sounds eBay actually licenses the a...
