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Cloud Computing in Plain English

In Link,Recommended Reading on November 16, 2009 by Nate Rosenberg

Need to help your boss understand cloud computing? Lee and Sachi LeFever explain cloud computing in a way anyone can understand.

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Gartner: Ten Technologies You Can’t Afford to Ignore

In Link,Recommended Reading,cloud on October 21, 2009 by Nate Rosenberg

  1. Cloud Computing
  2. Advanced Analytics
  3. Client Computing
  4. IT for Green
  5. Reshaping the Data Center
  6. Social Computing
  7. Security – Activity Monitoring
  8. Flash Memory
  9. Virtualization for Availability
  10. Mobile Applications

Read more at CNET.

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Can SIP Trunking Save Businesses Money?

In Recommended Reading on October 8, 2009 by Nate Rosenberg

Many organizations use IP phones for internal calls, but rely on legacy T1 and PRI connections for connecting to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Yet, many businesses would like to put their phone calls on their data networks for the long-term savings. Unified Communications has not yet caught on, but SIP Trunking may be starting to take off.

Telephony Online has a great article on the topic: SIP Trunking—Savior during a Recession?

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Whiteboard on Disaster Recovery and Virtualization

In Expert Articles,Recommended Reading on September 30, 2009 by Nate Rosenberg

Las Vegas-based virtualization consultants SourceVM have a whiteboard from VMWare on their website on how virtualization helps with disaster recovery.

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City of Los Angeles: Google vs. Microsoft

In Recommended Reading,cloud on September 28, 2009 by Nate Rosenberg

Los Angeles City Hall is ground zero in the cloud computing war. Microsoft and Google are vying for a $7.25-million contract to replace the city’s outdated e-mail system.

Read the Los Angeles Times article.