Crowd-sourcing Vs. Automation for Data Center Relocation (DCR) testing
I recently had two separate conversations with professional performance engineering colleagues of mine, Mark Tomlinson, product manager for HP Load Runner and Performance Center http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtomlins and with Todd DeCapua http://www.linkedin.com/pub/todd-decapua-mba-csm-csp/2/684/673 who until recently managed an industry recognized Automation / Performance / Agile Scrum practice. The topic of the discussion was how organizations should address the [...]
3. May 2010
How Shunra can help Utilities to deploy Smart Grid
During the last couple of weeks I had the opportunity to meet with a couple of companies looking to develop applications for Smart Grid management. The newest trend in power distribution is to build systems to allow for ongoing monitoring of both consumption and generation of power by individual home users. This system would facilitate [...]
23. March 2010
Using Shunra VE Technology in a VDI Implementation
The latest buzzword in IT is “Virtualization”. Of course, the acronym can be apply to many cases, but the most commonly used case refers to the PC replacement with new generation of “terminals” that are commonly referred to as “DV”, Desktop Virtual Infrastructure. No, we are not talking about the reincarnation of V-100 green screen [...]
12. March 2010
The FCC Invites You to Check How Slow Your Internet Access Is
The FCC just released a set of tools designed to test a user connection to the Internet,both for PC platforms (works on IE and Firefox) and applets for Iphone and other smart phones. Just access www.broadband.gov and you will be prompted to review the national plan to deploy broadband and invited to test your own [...]
5. March 2010
Netflix Survey Hints at Iphone Streaming App
Despite Netflix’s CEO comments in a recent interview to Reuters, it is apparent that the online/rental primer distributor of movies in the US is planning to release a new service targeting, yes, you guessed correctly… millions of Iphone users. Netflix is distributing among thousands of its subscribers an online survey (see below) to float the [...]
24. February 2010
Wi-Fi turns School’s Buses into Study Halls
A pilot is now under way at one of Arizona’s school districts, where a couple of school buses are being equipped with an innovative Wi-Fi technology, allowing students to log into the Internet and start their homework while on route. For years, students at this district, outside Tucson, not unlike millions of students in the [...]
19. February 2010
FCC to Propose Faster Broadband Speeds
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog dealing with a global study of Internet speed, where it was reported that the US is one of the few countries where the Internet is actually slowing down. On February 17, the Chairman of the FCC (Federal Communication Commission), Julius Genachowski, proposed a decade long program [...]
10. February 2010
Is Apple’s IPAD a Game Changer?
Since Steve Jobs presented Apple’s new addition, the IPAD, the press and the blogosphere are trying to assess the real impact on the new gadget. Is it a passing fad, like the Newton or the attempts by IBM to implement a tablet computer or a real game changer that finally, after almost 30 of personal [...]
27. January 2010
The Feds May Soon Mandate Cloud Computing Usage
In a blog dedicated to Cloud Computing, published by InfoWorld, David Lithicum, the Cloud Computing guru, inform us that according to various published reports, the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) will mandate in the fiscal year 2011 (which starts in October 2010) that federal agencies not using cloud computing or making cloud computing part [...]
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23. July 2010