VM Import could be a game changer for hybrid clouds
However, VM images are huge, and because of current bandwidth restrictions, the thought of doing this on a daily basis is a bit unreasonable. At the time again, moving images up to the cloud over the weekend to protect against a business-killing outage is not a bad approach, considering your infrastructure is ready and waiting if you lose your internal systems. More...
FCC Net neutrality rules reach mobile apps
Mobile providers can't restrict VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) apps, and "paid prioritization" is illegal, according to 194 pages of rules approved Tuesday that are nevertheless public. More...
Skype v5.0.0.156 Appears To Solve Service Downtime
Service hiccups we experienced during using Skype before today were solved almost without warning once we downloaded and installed the latest version of the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)'s client, v5. More...
Skype Outage Continues
For those who aren't familiar with Skype's technical underpinnings, this two-day outage has offered the possibility to explore the backend of a communications system so many millions throughout the world depend on. More...
Internet Protocol Private Branch
In the first official update posted by the official Skype Twitter account early December 22 210, it was reported that they were aware that users were having problems signing in and that the company's engineers were investigating the issue. More...
How Much Will Outage Hurt Skype?
A day afterwards going down, Skype’s Internet telephone service was returning slowly to normal Thursday, the company said. More than 16 million users are online — about 80% of what one would broadly speaking expect, CEO Tony Bates said. More...
Microsoft Cloud Data Breach Heralds Things to Come
What might be the first major cloud data breach happened Wednesday. Microsoft announced that data contained within its Business Productivity Online Suite has been downloaded by non-authorized users. More...
Vying for Enterprise and Developer Love
That Google wants a very large piece of the enterprise pie is widely known, so the Internet giant's last 2010 attempt at romancing a portion of Microsoft's fan base comes as no surprise. More...
South African Unified Communications Market Report: Unified Communications to
As the South African unified communications market remains at an early growth stage, it presents profitable opportunities for telecommunications service providers in the country. More...
Will your cloud service provider survive?
Stories about one vendor buying another are more often than not the AOP of the incisive Chris Nerney, nevertheless yesterday's announcement that Teradata acquired marketing and market-analysis software provider Aprimo made me wonder how fast the cloud-computing market is consolidating. More...