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yigalgafni - who has written 20 posts on Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software.
Is IPTV coming to your home sooner than expected?
In today’s Business section of the New York Times, there is an article by Brian Stelter (December 22, 2009) about a proposal by Apple computer to offer TV subscription packages via the Internet. The article points out that ABC and CBS are actively considering joining the Apple venture. Disney, who owns ABC, was the first [...]
Continue reading...Cloud Computing to the Desktop
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
VMware is releasing a new technology, developed by Teradici that may greatly improve the performance of remote desktops, quintessence filling a gap in the Cloud Computing paradigm. It will allow the use of PCoverIP protocol instead of using slower methods like RDP. PCoIP is a type of display protocol used by remote desktops when doing [...]
Continue reading...Impact of Latency on Cloud Computing
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The new buzzword around the IT block is “Cloud Computing”, the ability to avoid deploying costly infrastructure on each location by contracting a “virtual” infrastructure environment from dedicated vendors. Need to expand? Just call your provider and double your server capacity and triple your storage. However, we may need to apply a sobriety test, where [...]
Continue reading...Cisco place a bet on Video over IP
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
By 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte, (a trillion GB), according to a new forecast of IP traffic (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-481360_ns827_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html). What is driving this growth is video? Cisco forecasts that 90 percent of consumer IP traffic (which makes up the majority of total IP traffic) will be video in 2013. Cisco also predicts [...]
Continue reading...Is the recession affecting the growth of the web?
Friday, May 8, 2009
The good news is that there are more than 230 million web sites, the bad news, only 30 million where added in 2008, almost half of the number created in 2007. According to Erick Shoenfled, in TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/08/is-the-growth-of-the-web-slowing-down-or-just-taking-a-breather/) the growth of the web has slowed dramatically in the last year, no doubt affected by the [...]
Continue reading...On Line Medical Records – Anytime Soon?
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The new administration plans to spend 19 Billion, yes, big B, to accelerate the implementation and adoption of electronic medical records. As reviewed recently by the Technology section of the New York Times, the logic behind such a large expenditure is that electronic records can lower costs, increase safety and availability of the records and [...]
Continue reading...Testing for a “Snow Day”
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The BBC reported recently that British technology was pushed to the extreme as the Southern part of England, including the London metropolitan area, was blanketed by a rare snow storm. In London, bus services were canceled and hundreds of thousands turned to the web to find alternative means of transportation. Web sites for train and taxi [...]
Continue reading...Can Broadband Promote Economical Growth?
Monday, February 16, 2009
This morning, while on my way to meet a potential customer, I was listening to the latest NPR Technology Podcast where the main topic of discussion was the potential impact of broadband on economic growth. The argument presented was that there is a correlation between urban growth and availability of broadband, and that switching to [...]
Continue reading...“Blue Water” Data Center
Monday, February 9, 2009
I read a couple of days ago that Google has filed for a patent for an “off-shore water based data center,” basically a data center located on a barge, a large flat bottom vessel, loaded with servers and communication gear. The advantages for cooling such a data center are quite obvious, but also, utilizing “wave [...]
Continue reading...Testing 3-G Phone Services in a Virtual Lab
Monday, January 19, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend some time helping ITT in Mexico City building a lab to test 3G phone services, where Shunra provided the critical element in the testing lab, a complete 3G virtual Wide Area Network. In the lab, network conditions from different service providers in Latin America [...]
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009