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Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again

Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu – Congratulations should go to News Corp., Disney, and NBC Universal for finally creating an online company so big and successful that tech industry giants may stumble over each other to acquire it. Does Hulu or its buyer get the short stick? Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Dish Network, and DirecTV appear… Read More »Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again

September 20, 2011

The Internet

Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu

Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors The battle for Hulu has come down to a few prime fighters hustling for victory. I’m placing my vote that Amazon should be the winner. Well, that is for a consumer win. There’s been a lot of courting to acquire Hulu from News Corp., Walt Disney, and NBC Universal’s Comcast.… Read More »Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu

September 20, 2011

Cloud Optimization & Migration

Key Cloud Migration Decisions

Key Cloud Migration Decisions Most legacy applications have implicit assumptions about operating systems, hardware, geography, latency, throughput, scalability, governance, access rights, monitoring and other aspects that must be carefully addressed before deploying to the public cloud. by Alex Veytsel, Steve Lerner and Tony Greenberg as published by Microsoft TechNet When faced with the many opportunities… Read More »Key Cloud Migration Decisions

August 18, 2011

The Internet

Google Wrecks the CDN Market

Google Wrecks the CDN Market Last week Google formally launched its Page Speed Service, the latest in a long line of Content Delivery Network (CDN) services from dozens of suppliers from big and small to hit the market over the last 15 years. In the case of Google though, I see a few novel changes… Read More »Google Wrecks the CDN Market

August 10, 2011

IT Infrastructure

A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011

A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011 (Prove me wrong or shut the heck up.) As pondered by Tony Greenberg and Alex Veytsel 1. Everything that’s old will be new again. Last year brought us the return of 3D from the 1950s, cloud (a.k.a. the new and improved mainframe), thin client (the dumb terminals… Read More »A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011

January 5, 2011

Sourcing

2011 Through The Eyes of A Sourcing Advisor

Sourcing Advisor 2011 was a very busy year for us at RampRate. I’ve spent nearly 20 years, on many sides, of the technology business and I enjoy reflecting across large swaths of time to see if there are patterns, lessons, and advice, so let’s see what we get from 2011. Cloud Computing Won’t Whisk Us… Read More »2011 Through The Eyes of A Sourcing Advisor

January 2, 2011

The Internet

Break Out the Buggy Whips. Is Now the Tipping Point for Streaming Video?

Buggy Whip Business Who’s in the buggy whip business in technology these days? By that, I mean, what companies are about to become obsolete thanks to major shifts in media delivery and consumption caused by the rise, the serious rise, of streaming? More than a dozen years after the launch of the Streaming Media conference,… Read More »Break Out the Buggy Whips. Is Now the Tipping Point for Streaming Video?

November 17, 2010

SPY INDEX

New DATE from RampRate- IT services transparency

IT services transparency SANTA MONICA, Calif.─Nov. 16, 2010─ Because Fortune 1000 and Internet firms often spend millions of dollars on top-rated premium technology and telecommunications services only to find them failing and derailing success, RampRate announced today its Deal Acceleration and Transparency Engine (DATE), which cuts cost, time, and risk from the buying process. “This new… Read More »New DATE from RampRate- IT services transparency

November 16, 2010

Data Center Power Efficiency

Are You Going Green or Going for the Green?

Return on Investment Paper vs. Plates just one question in the bigger picture Part 2 in a series on conflicts between environmental and economic impulses in all of us, and how we resolve them. “How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It’s really very simple and requires no expert… Read More »Are You Going Green or Going for the Green?

November 7, 2010