Internet Research Is an Economic Imperative Bill St. Arnaud 12/19/2011 21 comments Countries that collaborate and work on the future of the Internet will reap the rewards of a stronger economy and greater job growth.
When Two (or More) Nets Are Better Than One Bill St. Arnaud 6/4/2010 11 comments Research networks are pointing to trends toward federated and virtual networks, which are replacing traditional hierarchical Web subnets
Smart Meters Must Smarten Up Bill St. Arnaud 10/16/2009 10 comments So-called 'smart' utility meters must provide control from the user side in order to really benefit customers and the environment
The Greening of Academic Internet R&D Bill St. Arnaud 7/22/2008 3 comments The cyber-infrastructure for academic research is both a problem and a solution when it comes to greenhouse emissions
The Internet & ICT: Cutting CO2 Emissions Bill St. Arnaud 6/20/2008 17 comments The combination of the Internet and information and communication technology (ICT) can have a significant impact on CO2 emissions
Improving Internet Transparency Bill St. Arnaud 5/26/2008 6 comments Increased use of deep packet inspection equipment by network carriers is spurring the development of software tools to make the Internet more transparent
Carrier Garden Walls Are Tumbling Down Bill St. Arnaud 1/11/2008 3 comments Apple, Comcast, and others are making the Internet a much bigger pie where everyone can profit – at the expense of the carriers
Infrastructure as a Web Service Bill St. Arnaud 1/4/2008 9 comments Enabling the IT Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) allows administrators to manage operations (computing, storage, and networking hardware) over a network connection
Goodbye Grid, Hello Clouds Bill St. Arnaud 12/21/2007 6 comments When compared to the once promising trend of grid computing, cloud computing offers distinct advantages
Internet Offsets Carbon Footprint Bill St. Arnaud 12/11/2007 7 comments The Internet community should help cut carbon dioxide emissions, which contributes to the greenhouse effect
The 'Disposable Internet' Bill St. Arnaud 10/29/2007 6 comments Internet service providers may be facing a 'Perfect Storm' of challenges, which may soon render their current business models obsolete
Some Telcos 'Get It' Bill St. Arnaud 10/23/2007 5 comments The smarter telcos are realizing that new business models are critical to their success. Some, like KPN and Telia, are discovering that open-access and P2P networks are not necessarily a bad thing
Net Neutrality Bill St. Arnaud 10/4/2007 5 comments If we don't ensure net neutrality, we may be handing control of the network over to the telephone companies
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Energy consumption is a primary contributor to global warming. At the end of 2012, 40 percent of energy consumption in the US came from commercial and residential buildings.
Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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