Archive for February, 2010
Disaster recovery and business continuity. Recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives. Backing up data to offsite locations, and potentially running mirrored processing sites – it is an expensive business requirement to fulfill. Particularly for budget conscious small and medium-sized companies.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurs, Internet and Telecom, Virtualization | Leave a Comment
Tags: cloud computing, disaster recovery, recovery time objectives, rto, recovery point objectives, rpo, scaleup technologies, cari.net, scaleup
CA and 3tera have announced CA’s acquisition of the innovative cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service vendor. This is a great thing for Computer Associates, and perhaps a bit sad for the cloud community in general. Why? It is hard to fit the energy and enthusiasm felt when walking into 3Tera’s Aliso Veijo office into words.
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Tags: 3tera, applogic, cloud computing, computer associates
The government is not an Internet or Broadband Service Provider. Let’s not expect the state to lead us out of this embarrassing situation of lagging the United States in broadband technology.
Filed under: International ICT, Internet and Telecom, Social Issues | Leave a Comment
Tags: hawaii broadband, Hawaii Broadband Task Force, Hawaii Communications Commission, hb1077, hb984, lassner, sb895
Try a search engine query on “Hawaii CIO,” or “Hawaii Chief Information Officer.” You might get a couple corporate links pop up, or possibly the University of Hawaii’s CIO link, but the only state agency within the first two pages of links is for the Information and Communications Services Division of the Department of Accounting and general services (DAGS). The first impression, once hitting the Hawaii Information and Communications Services Division (ICSD) landing page on the State of Hawaii’s website, is the microwave tower graphic.
Filed under: Internet and Telecom | 1 Comment
Tags: cio, disaster recovery, eGovernment, hawaii, ICSD, ict, Information and Communications Technology
That was the moment that we knew it wasn’t at the bandwidth levels v6 was operating at, it wasn’t about the number of eyeballs that were enabled, or the number of servers, it was about the fact the enterprise and the wholesale market had realized why v6 was so important.
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Tags: hurricane electric, ipv6, martiun levy
We as a company, because we run a global IP backbone, have always been in a great position to help service customers in those other geographies. It doesn’t mean that we ignore our backyard, the Silicon Valley, or the Los Angeles, or the New Yorks, or Washington D.C. areas – far from it.
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Tags: bandwidth, economy, global ip backbone, hurricane electric, ipv6, martin levy
2010 really marks a time when we have less than 2 years of available space that can be allocated to the core registries, to the RIRs (regional Internet registries). And as this year and next year go by, we are going to start seeing rules that have never been seen on the global Internet. We are going to see people with requirements to substantiate their use of v4 space in ways that they have never done till this point.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurs, International ICT, Internet and Telecom, Social Networking | 1 Comment
Tags: Honolulu, hurricane electric, internet, ipv4, ipv6, martin levy
The Europeans mock us. The Koreans boast a claim they are the world’s most wired country. Finland is bringing broadband to reindeer. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published in their 2009 statistics the U.S. now ranks 15th among the group’s 30 member countries for broadband subscriptions. This is down from 12th in their previous study. No way!
Is the United States actually that far behind the world in broadband deployment? Should the home of Cisco Systems, Brocade, IBM, and HP hang our heads in shame at our inability to deliver a world class communications infrastructure?
Filed under: International ICT, Internet and Telecom, Social Issues | 2 Comments
Tags: allied fiber, baudette, broadband, finland, hunter newby, level 3 communications, mimo, minnesota, oecd, towers, wireless broadband
The headlines are no surprise to those in the Internet business. “Police in Central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online…”
Filed under: Government Regulatory, International ICT, Internet and Telecom, Open Topics, Social Issues, citizen journalism | Leave a Comment
Tags: calea, china, cyber security, dcsnet, nsa, russia, sovereign nation, usaf cyber command
Not So Green Hawaii
I look out of my high rise condo window, and see around 100 rooftops scattered around the neighborhood below. An unscientific count of the area gives me a tally of about 65% of Waikiki/Honolulu rooftops within my line of sight have black, tarred, asphalt, or dark colored tiling.
Filed under: Energy, Social Issues, environment | Leave a Comment
Tags: Energy, HECO, Honolulu, steven chu, white rooftop
John Savageau’s Profile
John Savageau is a life long telecom and Internet geek, with a deep interest in the environment and all things green. Whether drilling into the technology of human communications, or describing a blue whale off Catalina Island, Savageau will try to present complex ideas in terms that are easily appreciated and understood.
John Savageau is President of Pacific-Tier Communications based in Honolulu, Hawaii
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