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Video startup BurstPoint Networks is launching with a video delivery suite aimed at distributing high-definition video. The BurstPoint Video Communications Platform, being announced today, was launched as a way for enterprise customers to efficiently deliver video both behind the firewall and over the broader Internet. Read more »

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Today is the first day of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York, and an unprecedented number of runway shows as well as interviews with designers are streamed live online. Want to catch a glimpse at what’s coming in spring 2011? Then check out our guide. Read more »

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Cisco wants to by Massachusetts-based ExtendMedia to bolster its IP video delivery infrastructure. Why is a company that makes set-top boxes so interested in over-the-top video? Because the next generation of TV Everywhere services could bring us cable companies without the need for any cable boxes. Read more »

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Web operation strategists at high-traffic sites such as MySpace, Yahoo and Google have to make hard-and-fast decisions on a daily basis to ensure their sites run at high speed and user data is stored securely. As the representatives of those companies, along with executives from Microsoft […] Read more »

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IBM announced it would begin offering cloud computing infrastructure to large companies just two weeks ago. Willy Chiu, VP of IBM’s Cloud Labs, talked briefly about IBM’s move to cloud computing. Chiu, who started working with IBM’s cloud computing team three years ago, said IBM has […] Read more »

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Which venture capital firms are “eating their own dog food” and consuming cloud services, asked Paul Kedrosky of a panel of VCs who invest in web infrastructure. You can just wave your hands if you’re running your firm on the cloud, he said. Let’s just say […] Read more »

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Data center hardware infrastructure can be roughly categorized into servers, networking and storage. But two of those areas are merging before our eyes, as Cisco and HP battle for server and network integration. The business and technical implications of this consolidation affect other companies and customers […] Read more »

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SAP, not exactly an early cloud adopter, thinks cloud computing will factor significantly into large-scale computing services, said SAP CTO Vishal Sikka in conversation with GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham at the Structure 09 conference in San Francisco today. But that doesn’t mean enterprise services of the future […] Read more »

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Faster, cheaper, more ubiquitous bandwidth has spawned a decade of new applications that depend on it as a platform: Google, YouTube, Twitter, Hulu. The bigger pipes, the richer the application. What will higher bandwidth speeds, wider-reaching networks and cheaper access to connections produce in another decade? […] Read more »

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While it may seem that everyone and their mother is moving to the cloud, the truth is that many enterprises are still wary about moving into public, shared infrastructures. But there are undeniable business benefits to cloud computing, and enterprises are beginning to ask: How can […] Read more »

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Om sat down this afternoon with Facebook Technical Operations VP Jonathan Heiliger to talk about the social network’s infrastructure and started out by asking how the company managed to withstand the heavy user traffic during its username product launch. Heiliger said that Facebook had originally planned […] Read more »

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Is there a need for business specialty-focused clouds or should we stick with the current one-size-fits-all cloud model? GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham posited this question to a panel today, who unanimously supported the move towards specialized clouds, but agreed that some uniformity is needed among future models. Read more »

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“The real reason we talk about the cloud so much is that everyone can draw one,” said Russ Daniels of HP, VP and CTO of HP’s cloud services strategy, who’s now been put in charge of technology for HP’s EDS division. Daniels joked that since the […] Read more »

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Running the 11-year-old content-distribution kingpin Akamai, which manages nearly 50,000 servers and optimizes the world’s overtaxed web services, might be a high-profile job for some. For Akamai CEO Paul Sagan, it’s actually his second act — the cousin of science writer Carl Sagan was formerly an […] Read more »

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When you’re running a web app, what can you offload responsibility for by outsourcing to the cloud and what do you need to do yourself? The balance between the two is changing, as was discussed on a Structure panel that pitted hosting providers (of sorts) and […] Read more »

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The emergence of cloud computing has forced companies to re-think about where their data is stored, as well as which technologies are best to support a distributed data storage model. The ideal scenario is storage that’s cheap and quickly scalable — just keep on adding storage […] Read more »

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Today we are live-streaming Structure 09, our second annual conference devoted to all things cloud computing. As Om said in his opening remarks this morning: Last year companies were just taking about the cloud, this year we’re living the reality. If you’re unable to join us […] Read more »

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Cloud infrastructure services are particularly good at supporting variable demand and peaks with unpredictable timing or amplitude. Peaks are a challenge for CIOs, because forecasting too low may lead to poor performance or service unavailability, and guessing too high means paying for unneeded capacity. Peaking through […] Read more »