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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . . – bg.

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AT&T taps Cisco fixed 5G wireless gateways for WAN service

Network World

For most use cases, FWA offers a strong complement to wired WAN, particularly when using SD-WAN, SD-Routing, or routing to take advantage of Cisco traffic orchestration features such as load balancing, traffic shaping, uplink selection, and more,” Desai wrote.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. The Mobile Cloud: What it Is & Why it Matters. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

CTOvision

Your running shoe tracks your workouts, sending the data to a mobile app. You can opt-in to smart metering so that a utility can load balance energy distribution. That data is integrated with the building control system and room schedules to optimize energy consumption. Your smartphone controls your television.

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Migrating to VoIP

Spearline Testing

A network assessment should be undertaken to ensure that the network is robust enough to operate at existing levels with the addition of projected data and voice traffic needs. Connectivity and audio quality are monitored on fixed-line, SIP, or mobile networks, globally.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Mobile Work.