Great article Doug and indeed great points made via your comments. Running serious math is important and it's a sophisticated discipline. However, the era where users had to go through a huge learning curve because...
In reply to: Re: A Deeper Level of Analytics
Normal 0 This isn't Verizon's very first move into the cloud, as Verizon bought Terremark in 2011. But now that is seems likely that the telcos will be jumping in with both feet, and that Google and Amazon...
In reply to: Re: Telcos Wake Up
Really interesting, thanks!I think that you would be really interested in some recent research that I have come across explaining crowds and citizen science. In particular I feel you may find these two emerging pieces of...
In reply to: Re: Open Gov Policy
For teleco operators, CDN is a good starting point to jump into cloud world. From technical perspective, CDN is not something extremly complex but adding a cache layer between client and server over the internet by placing...
In reply to: Re: Telcos Wake Up
Save everything is just like keeping all the posts you have received from banks, companies and government agencies. These posts are of importance when they first arrived so you would like to keep them in case of future reference...
In reply to: Re: Terabyte Limit Doesn't Compute
Another dangerous thing people do, especially on the iPhone, is to remain logged into all their applications all the time. Many websites or apps that handle sensitive data will log you out after a specified time, but you'll...
In reply to: Log out
I agree with Wyatt that in few organizations does the IT department actually have the budget to empower each and every employee on all levels. They usually have to pick and choose where they will invest. On the flip side,...
In reply to: Re: Legacy or Ancient
I think you will see deployments. I just don't think they will be of the massive heterogeneous type. I think you will see vendors have success with their individual solutions, and you will see a handful of truly heterogeneous...
In reply to: Re: SDN == OpenFlow?
Dan, I'm wondering about the cloud-based UCC trials you mention that are available. Would you recommend against that type of pilot project, since you are unable to test how the solution works in conjunction with your other...
In reply to: Cloud-based UCC trials
@mbushong, I agree that there is no "winning" approach to SDN as of yet -- it's still anybody's game. That said, I am hoping 2014 sees a little more progress than you predict. It definitely takes a great deal of expertise...
In reply to: Re: SDN == OpenFlow?
wifikiwi, thanks for answering my question. That's great advice. You're right that the initial instinct is to add more APs, and I'm not sure how aware most IT generalists are of the co-channel interference problem.
In reply to: Re: WLAN health
You can't prevent being tagged in an update or photo, but there is a setting that lets you review each of your tags before they appear on your profile. To find this, go to your Privacy Settings page and click Timeline and...
In reply to: Re: Location privacy
Agree, Wyatt, though we need something subtle that covers the camera but blends in -- so we can be paranoid without broadcasting to everyone around us that we're paranoid.
In reply to: Re: Spying
Not many people carry their Passport, ID Card or Driving license around with them.
Criminals certainly don't so the system needs to be online.
In reply to: Do the Politicians even understand the Problem!
The move to make these living room devices just a cheap and simple way to connect to a smarter computing device or cloud service strikes me as the right way to go. I'm using the $50 Roku box to connect to Netflix and Amazon...
In reply to: Dumb box
Yes and whether $35 billion or $180 billion turns out to be the actual short term lose that the US cloud computing industry will suffer, I wonder how much it will cost the cloud industry in the long run. Canada has become...
In reply to: Re: Who Can We Trust?
There's some very concrete advice here: you're going to have to enforce passwords on mobile devices, even though employees don't like them. No password protection, no BYOD.
In reply to: Stand firm
In fact it is better than Chip & Pin which is tedious and difficult to use.
Authentication and Transaction Signing done with ease!
In reply to: Can Anyone Compete
When it comes to default passwords, the asset owners need to pay more attention to specifying requirements for Role Based Access Control using Standards such as IEEE 1686. As far as Ruggedcom is concerened I believe that...
In reply to: RBAC part of the solution
A National Connected Online Photographic Identification System for Security Services such as the Police needs to be developed. Furthermore an Online Authentication System using Smartcards and Pins, a bit like chip and pin,...
In reply to: National Identity
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