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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 [...]
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8. December 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 [...]
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19. February 2010