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CloudGov 2012 Highlights Government Cloud Initiatives
Federal, state, and local government agencies gathered in Washington D.C. on 16 February to participate in Cloud/Gov 2012 held at the Westin Washington D.C.read more
View ArticleBGC Partners to Host Investors and Analysts on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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Counterintuity – Creative Internet Marketing in Burbank
When people talk about social media marketing, then I say we’re talking about communications. When you think about it, when you are born the very first thing you do is communicate. You cry, and then...
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Gartner Data Center Conference Yields Few Surprises
Gartner’s 2012 Data Center Conference in Las Vegas is noted for not yielding any major surprise. While having an uncanny number of attendees (*the stats are not available, however it is clear they...
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Gartner Data Center Conference Looks Into Open Source Clouds and Data Backup
Day two of the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas continued reinforcing old topics, appearing at times to be either enlist attendees in contributing to Gartner research, or simply providing...
View ArticleProtecting Evidence and Property with Robert Giles
In order to punish violators and offenders, law enforcement needs to collect and maintain facts and evidence. Failure to do so correctly may result in the release of a guilty person, or possibly worse...
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Burbank Takes on Puppy Mills – Part 1
On October 16, members of the community, animal rescue organizations, and local pet store owners gathered at the Burbank City Council meeting to weigh in on the highly emotional issue of the sale of...
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Data Center Consolidation and Adopting Cloud Computing in 2013
Throughout 2012 large organizations and governments around the world continued to struggle with the idea of consolidating inefficient data centers, serer closets, and individual “rogue” servers...
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Burbank Takes on Puppy Mills – An Animal Rights Perspective
Part 2 of the series “Burbank Takes on Puppy Mills” will focus on the position of animal rights groups, shelters, and adoption agencies and their views on the above topics.read more
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Burbank Takes on Puppy Mills – A Pet Store Owners Perspective
This is part three of a series on the issue of pet stores selling puppies in Burbank, whether the city should prevent sales of puppies in Burbank, and a greater issue of animal abuse through the...
View ArticleBurbank Takes on Puppy Mills
BurbankNBeyond: can you give us an overview on your position regarding the sale of commercially-bred puppies in Burbank? Councilman David Gordon: Well I have done quite a bit of research since this...
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Burbank Takes on Puppy Mills – Interview with Vice Mayor Gabel-Luddy
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article by the author originally appeared in BurbankNBeyond. This and the interview with Councilman David Gordon, are the final articles in a series researching the introduction...
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The Future of Carrier Hotels and Mixed-Use Office Buildings
We all know the buildings, One Wilshire, The Westin Building, 60 Hudson, Telehouse (UK), 200 Paul, 1102 Grand – all buildings advertising dozens, or even hundreds of carriers using the properties for...
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ICT Modernization Planning
The current technology refresh cycle presents many opportunities, and challenges to both organizations and governments. The potential of service-oriented architectures, interoperability, collaboration,...
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Burbank’s Bexel Brings Media and Event Production Services to the World
NOTE: This story was originally published at myBurbank.com by the author. Bexel is a very unique company. From an unimposing facility near the Burbank Airport, Bexel sends broadcast video and audio...
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The Value of Cloud Computing Certifications
Much like the early Internet days of eEverything, cloud computing is at the point where most have heard the term, few understand the concepts, and marketing folk are exploiting every possible...
View ArticleBig Data Skills – Opportunities and Threats
Big Data. There are few conversations in the IT community which do not start, address, or end on the topic. Some conversations are visionary in nature, some critical, and many considering the...
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Why IT Guys Need to Learn TOGAF
Is it acceptable to simply be a technology specialist, or do ICT professionals also need to be an inherent part of the business process?read more
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Connecting at the Westin Building Exchange in Seattle
International telecommunication carriers all share one thing in common – the need to connect with other carriers and networks. WBX offers the global telecom industry an alternative to other carrier...
View ArticleWhat Value Can I Expect from Cloud Computing Training?
No student has walked away from a cloud computing course knowing less about the role, impact, and potential of implementing cloud in nearly any organization. Normally, when we think of...
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Asian Carrier’s Conference 2013 Kicks Off in Cebu
The 2013 ACC kicked off on Tuesday morning with an acknowledgement by Philippine Long Distance Telecommunications (PLDT) CEO Napolean L. Nazareno that “we’re going through a profound and painful...
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ICT Training and Requirements Survey
Pacific-Tier Communications LLC is preparing our ICT courseware development plan for 2015. read more
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It is Time to Get Serious about Architecting ICT
Why is the idea of architecting ICT infrastructure still an abstract to so many in government, and even private industry?read more
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Wiring the Sierras
Inyo County, the second largest county in California, is ready to jumpstart the process of delivering a true broad band infrastructure to business and residences within the Owens Valley. The plan,...
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NexGen Cloud Conference in San Diego – Missing the Point
The NexGen Cloud Computing Conference kicked off on Thursday in San Diego with a fair amount of hype and a lot of sales people. Granted the intent of the conference is for cloud computing vendors to...
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Adopting Critical Thinking in Information Technology
The incident highlighted a reality – the organization working on the problem had very little critical thinking or problem solving skills. They chased each obvious symptom, but never really addressed or...
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It is Time to Consider Wireless Mesh Networking in Our Disaster Recovery Plans
WMN may provide a model for ensuring communications following the disaster. As nearly every American now has a mobile phone, with a WiFi radio, the basic requirements for a mesh network are already in...
View ArticleNurturing the Marriage of Cloud Computing & SOAs By @JohnSavageau [#Cloud]
As the years passed, and we entered 2014, not only did cloud computing mature as a business model, but senior management began to increase their awareness of various aspects of cloud computing,...
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Now that We Have Adopted IaaS By @JohnSavageau | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Providing guidance or consulting to organizations on cloud computing topics can be really easy, or really tough. In the past most of the initial engagement was dedicated to training and building...
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Developing a New “Service-Centric IT Value Chain”
As IT professionals we have been overwhelmed with different standards for each component of architecture, service delivery, governance, security, and operations. Not only does IT need to ensure...
View ArticleCloud Portability and Interoperability By @JohnSavageau | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Cloud Computing has helped us understand both the opportunity, and the need, to decouple physical IT infrastructure from the requirements of business. In theory cloud computing greatly enhances an...
View ArticleIT as a Utility By @JohnSavageau | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Is there a point where business can safely assume they have hit the limit of what traditional IT organizations have to offer? In an Internet and data driven world, does IT simply lack the agility and...
View ArticlePTC 2015 Focuses on Submarine Cables and SDNs By @JohnSavageau | @CloudExpo...
In an informal survey of words used during seminars and discussions, two main themes are emerging at the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s 2015 annual conference. The first, as expected, is...
View ArticleOSS Development for the Modern Data Center By @John Savageau | @CloudExpo...
Modern Data Centers are very complex environments. Data center operators must have visibility into a wide range of integrated data bases, applications, and performance indicators to effectively...
View ArticleRisk Management Strategies By @JohnSavageau | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Risk management has been around for a long time. Financial managers run risk assessments for nearly all business models, and the idea of risk carries nearly as many definitions as the Internet....
View ArticleService Automation Takes a Big Step Up the Maturity Model by @JohnSavageau...
SDNs, or more specifically provisioning automation platforms service provider interconnections, and have crept into nearly all marketing materials and elevator pitches in discussions with submarine...
View ArticleThe Migration to Cloud Computing By @JohnSavageau | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
A couple years ago I attended several "fast pitch" competitions and events for entrepreneurs in Southern California, all designed to give startups a chance to "pitch" their ideas in about 60 seconds to...
View ArticleCan IT Standards Facilitate Innovation? By @JohnSavageau | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
IT professionals continue to debate the benefits of standardization versus the benefits of innovation, and the potential of standards inhibiting engineer and software developer ability to develop...
View ArticleSDNs in the Carrier Hotel By @JohnSavageau [#SDN]
While layer 1 (physical) interconnection of network resources will always be required – the bits need to flow on fiber or wireless at some point, the future of carrier and service resource...
View ArticleChanging Face of Technology By @JohnSavageau | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
A friend of mine's son recently returned from an extended absence which basically removed him from nearly all aspects of technology, including the Internet, for a bit longer than 5 years. Upon return,...
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