The Sundance Film Festival kicked off this week in Park City, Utah and the buzz is palpable. Long considered a critical launch pad for independent filmmakers, the Festival has gained massive mainstream exposure in recent years thanks to a host of new promotional vehicles at filmmakers’ disposal—from the growing popularity of television’s Sundance Channel to [...]
XIPing Past the Commodity Clouds
01.25.2011 By:
The market for on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure services that turn IT into a utility for businesses continues to expand rapidly. While initial use cases for such cloud services have been for application development and testing environments, the success of that model over the past few years is leading many companies to broaden their usage of outsourced [...]
Bandwidth Tsunami from CES
01.18.2011 By:
The saying goes that ‘what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’ – but what happened at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is no secret and will soon show up as devices and services in places ranging from our hands to our kitchen cupboards. As an annual event, CES has evolved from highlighting the latest [...]
Voxel SG presents at Drupal 7 release party in Indonesia
01.12.2011 By:
Saying that I had a great time presenting at the Drupal 7 Release Party is an understatement. This event was sponsored by skyshi.com and inkuiri.com, and it’s great to see so many Indonesian people, like myself, excited about the bright future of Drupal with it’s formidable release, “Version 7″. There were more than 120 enthusiastic people there [...]
Putting the Cloud in Lockdown
01.11.2011 By:
When it comes to the adoption of cloud services, the research numbers are piling up. A recent Connected Planet article outlined data from three organizations that combine to support the general trend of enterprises moving – quickly – to the cloud: 72% of U.S. IT decision makers plan to expand their cloud services in the [...]
At the Ready for IPv6
01.04.2011 By:
In recent months, there has been a groundswell of urgency around IPv6 as IPv4 addresses fall to critically low levels – below the 5% mark, according to the Number Resource Organization. So, after years of discussion and a lot of hype, it looks like IPv6 is finally arriving … and fast! At this point, the [...]
