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Ashar Baig, a research director at the well-respected analysis firm Gigaom, today at ITEXPO offered his perspective on the future (and the recent past) of cloud services.
 Why You Need to Know: Cloud is mainstream today, noted Baig, driven forward by users' desire for lower cost solutions, better scalability, and business agility – in that order. Concerns about compliancy, security, vendor lock in, and other factors are sometimes, but obviously not always, cloud inhibitors, however. |
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Several financial backers are getting behind a new plan to construct a new Faster undersea cable that will join Japan and the U.S. West Coast with the promise of providing better broadband connectivity across the globe.
Why You Need to Know: The entire project is being constructed to address the need for more bandwidth across the ocean to the two continents of North America and Asia. The news report describes the demand for traffic as intense", and it says the cable will meet that demand with a 60 Tbps capacity that will travel in a group of six individual fiber cables in the Faster group. |
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IT staffs at organizations tend to think of themselves as support teams. Instead, they need to look at things through a different lens and consider what they can be doing to drive the business at large forward.
Why You Need to Know: That's the advice from Hollis "Terry" Bradwell III, executive vice president and CIO at AARP, who gave an ITEXPO keynote speech today called "Unleashing the Hidden Value of IT". |
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ITEXPO attendees took a break from tweeting, hashtagging ITEXPO and blogging this morning to get back to the roots of social media—including what networks exist today, why enterprises must use social platforms and how to go about crafting a best-of-class social media strategy in a panel discussion titled "Social Media for the Enterprise 101: Back to the Basics."
Why You Need to Know: As presenter Allison Boccamazzo, managing content producer of Content Boost, TMC's custom publishing division, succinctly stated, "Social media is taking over. Most C-level executives and decision makers already know this startling reality. In fact, it's hard to think of a piece of IT where social media does not have at least a presence." |
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In the technology world, there's one thing we have to get straight: Security holds precedence above everything else. Google has taken the spirit of this statement quite literally and went ahead and gave a ranking boost to websites sporting an SSL 2048-bit certificate, enabling them to use the "https://" prefix.
Why You Need to Know: According to Google, the addition of SSL will give its ranking algorithm a "very lightweight" positive signal, providing websites using it with a minor advancement in its ranking on the search engine result pages (SERPs). |
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