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Why Las Vegas Dissemination Chose 1Velocity
Las Vegas Dissemination Company (LVDC) provides pari-mutuel services and race information to casinos and racetracks across North America. Ken Sarnecky from LVDC discusses the importance of redundant Internet providers to their business and why they chose 1Velocity.
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LVDC currently has 1Velocity and another provider providing Internet to their headquarters (both connections are used as primary with different data on each connection). LVDC added an additional line with 1Velocity last year and recently renewed the 1Velocity Internet connection at their headquarters.
“Two years ago, we brought in 1Velocity. They are completely diverse from any other carrier.
What has surprised us is it that 1Velocity’s wireless fiber has been more reliable than our ground fiber carrier. 1Velocity has performed very well, and I would highly recommend them.”
Ken Sarnecky
Las Vegas Dissemination Company
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Cities Launch 311Open
San Francisco pioneered using social media to connect citizens to 311 services. Recently, they partnered with Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, and numerous other cities recently to the Open 311 API, which makes it easy for other cities to provide similar services.
Chris Vein, the CIO for San Francisco, said at the launch event, “We’ve done all of that work. We’ve come up with all of those rules and standards and we’re giving it away for free. If somebody in another city wants to use this, they can take it and their programmers don’t have to spend months going through the protocols and figuring out how to make it interoperable.”
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Is Amazon Stealing the Cloud?
Bob Warfield has a new post with some interesting survey results about the cloud.
Netflix and the U.S. Government are moving parts of their infrastructure to Amazon Web Services, and apparently they’re not alone.
The majority of SMB’s now have a “SaaS first” policy, they prefer it. Many of the respondents to Goldman’s survey indicated they were using SaaS in this economy for TCO reasons, to save money…
Amazon.com is used by 67 percent of the survey respondents. It is clearly the out-in-front leader, despite being a “newcomer” to enterprise IT. For internal clouds, VMware’s leadership remains pronounced, with 83 percent of respondents using its virtualization technology.
Read the Full Post: Amazon is Stealing the Cloud
Quick Video Tour of our Wireless Fiber Local Loop
Gigabeam, one of our millimeter-wave radio vendors, conducted a tour of a 1Velocity rooftop during CTIA to showcase one of the sites on the GigE loop we’ve built on rooftops around the Las Vegas valley. Here’s a quick peek with Frank Kostelac, our SVP Engineering.
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