October 7, 2011 9:37 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Alcatel-Lucent,
Amazon,
Amazon EC2,
Apple,
appliances,
Cloud computing,
cloud computing services,
cloud ecosystem,
cloud provider,
Cloud Services,
Ericsson,
Google,
networking market,
networking vendors,
Oracle,
Oracle Public Cloud,
SonyThere are signs that the networking industry is doing a bit more weaving and bobbing as it looks for a position that sustains revenue and profit growth. One big item is the story that Sony...
October 6, 2011 4:58 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Apple,
cloud monetization,
cloud provider,
Cloud Services,
mobile cloud,
service delivery platform,
service layer architecture,
Steve JobsThere’s no way that any blogger in technology could not, today, offer a tribute to the greatest innovator that the technology industry has ever known. Steve Jobs was a true giant in a world of pretenders, a man who...
September 29, 2011 12:16 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Amazon,
Amazon EC2,
Apple,
Cloud computing,
e-readers,
iPad,
tablets
Well, Amazon finally announced its tablet. The event itself might have offered some clues because Apple would have done this in the Superdome, and Amazon had something that looked more like a high-school auditorium.
Bezos set the tone for the launch with a long...
September 16, 2011 12:39 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
CIMI Corp. survey,
Cisco,
Cloud computing,
HPI sent out the survey material for our fall strategy sweep, and as usual I asked both service providers and enterprises to respond quickly with the answers to the following questions; “What’s the hottest network issue”, “What’s your...
August 31, 2011 10:54 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cloud computing,
cloud networking,
Dell,
HP,
IBM,
Microsoft Azure,
Virtual Extensible LAN,
VMwareDell has used a couple of software conferences as bully pulpits for some of its own cloud announcements. The company is making a major cloud move, one it obviously hopes will elevate them to the...
August 26, 2011 1:02 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cloud computing,
cloud provider,
CloudSwitch,
hybrid cloud,
Microsoft Azure,
PaaS,
public cloud,
VerizonVerizon has taken what may be a very important and evocative step toward maturing its enterprise cloud strategy with the purchase of privately held CloudSwitch....
August 25, 2011 1:25 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Alcatel-Lucent,
Android,
Apple,
Chrome OS,
cloud ecosystem,
Google,
mobile behavior,
smartphones,
tabletsApple's Steve Jobs has finally decided that his health won’t permit him to head Apple and has passed control to Tom Cook, the Apple COO who has been the administrative head since Jobs...
August 8, 2011 1:55 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Brocade,
Cloud computing,
content delivery,
Ethernet,
metro networking,
VideoWith Brocade’s cut in guidance on its earnings call, the company joined what seemed a parade of network equipment vendors who’ve called the future of network spending into...
July 18, 2011 4:23 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
Citrix,
Cloud computing,
HP,
IBM,
Microsoft,
Open source,
Virtualization,
VMwareIn yet another price change that angers customers, VMware announced a new pricing strategy for its vSphere 5, and the new pricing could create significant...