Fukushima and Amazon – two meltdowns that truly raise the question of when is Bigger no longer Better? The underlying problem is that Murphy’s Law reigns supreme. No matter who you are, or how hard you try, things WILL go wrong. If you’re operating at a reasonable scale, the triggering incident is easily manageable and [...]
Yesterday, Primus made an announcement that it’ll be offering BEX service over copper. This is a very positive sign having another Internet Service Provider endorsing new technologies such as Ethernet-in-the-First-Mile (EFM), which is already in use in Australia, Europe, and the US, and is a perfect solution for the small- to mid-sized businesses in response to the current inadequate broadband offerings in the Canadian market.
Fellow Canadians over at Enomaly launched SpotCloud last week. They describe SpotCloud as a clearing house for excess cloud computing capacity. On SpotCloud, cloud computing resources are sold anonymously by cloud providers with excess capacity. So, why would anyone buy computing resources without knowing who was providing it? Why would you buy a hotel room [...]
Sending and receiving large attachments from your hosted exchange email server? Sharing files and presentations using cloud based collaboration tools? Storing your customer data (like CRM data) in the cloud? As more businesses move much of their IT infrastructure to the cloud, the idea of location is getting a lot more attention. A recent Forrester [...]
Radiant + Netapp + VMWare + Cisco. The top cloud computing service in Canada. Netapp just released the case study on Radiant’s AlwaysThere cloud computing platform. It’s posted up on the Netapp/Cisco/VMWare site dedicated to the 3 vendor’s joint solution for cloud computing infrastructure. There’s some great information in there about Radiant cloud services and [...]
The focus of this blog is to look at the impact cloud computing can have on the business. At Radiant, we sell our hosted exchange, cloud computing and business internet services to mid-sized companies across Canada. We often meet with prospective CFOs or CEOs during our sales cycle. What we find interesting about the dynamic [...]
