A recent CNN article by Blake Snow, entitled “Why console gaming is dying” tried to investigate the reasons behind the current downward trend in both console hardware and game sales. According to Mr. Snow, the roots of this trend are found in the rise of social/mobile gaming, the evolution of consoles as home entertainment devices, [...]
Too Much Console Gaming Doom and Gloom
12.06.2012 By:
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Is the Internet driving us mad?
07.17.2012 By:
Last week I started reading Newsweek’s article “Is the Web Driving Us Mad?” by Tony Dokoupil. Then I grabbed a cup of coffee, answered a few emails and sent a text message. Then, I remembered I was trying to read something — oh yes, that article. I started reading again and stopped here: “There’s little [...]
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Pay it forward pays off
05.23.2012 By:
I had a completely unexpected experience at a toll booth recently. I pulled up to make change for my dollar bill but was refused by the attendant. Now, I’m thinking “what the…?” – well, you can imagine what I was thinking. But to my surprise she threw 50 cents into the coin basket and said [...]
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What does success mean for you?
05.02.2012 By:
For this week’s mashup I “Googled,” Binged,” “[insert search engine here]” the phrase “what is success?” The first result on the page was obvious: the dictionary definition of success, following that was a website: www.what-is-success.com, which is a book promo site, and then an ezinearticle: “What is Success and How Do We Achieve it?” Here’s [...]
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Springtime, or anytime for that matter, is for teamwork
04.25.2012 By:
Springtime. Baseball. The smell of the grass. The crack of the bat. The cheers of the crowd. Conjures up great childhood memories for me. Every week I’d head down to the little league field where my dad coached and my brother played first base. Once my youngest sister – three at the time – wanted [...]
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How safe is your data center from disaster?
04.13.2012 By:
Recent storms in Dallas and the resulting YouTube videos resemble clips from the 1996 hit movie Twister. It was a scary scene for many across the Silicon Prairie. Unfortunately it’s times like these when many businesses start thinking about their disaster recovery plan. The key to surviving a tornado and reducing the risk of loss, [...]
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Accelerating ahead of the competition with F1 and XIP technology: Part two
04.10.2012 By:
In part one I wrote about Formula 1’s DRS, the Drag Reduction System, and how teams and drivers utilize this technology to gain an advantage over the competition. In part two, I’ll write about another technological tool that F1 teams have at their disposal when competing: KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System). KERS is a system to [...]
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Internap creates first artificial intelligence platform
04.01.2012 By:
It’s been a pretty exciting weekend so far here at Internap. IT IQ has taken on a whole new meaning. As you may have heard, at around 1:30 AM local time, Internap’s original Seattle P-NAP® (SEA for all you Internap insiders), gained consciousness. While our Managed Internet Route Optimizer™ technology (MIRO) has always been referred to as [...]
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Moments of recognition for a boy and his CDN
03.29.2012 By:
It’s awesome to be recognized. It really makes your day. I can remember when my baseball coach called me out in front of the other kids for a couple of good hits in a game. I can remember winning a participation award in a fishing contest when I was nine (I caught a Brim that [...]
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Would WPO be Your Weapon of Choice in the Hunger Games?
03.28.2012 By:
While our Mashup Maven, Stephanie, continues to bask in the glow of sunlight on her vacation, I’m here again this week, covering her beat. I don’t know what you did over the weekend, but like millions of others, I went to the opening night of The Hunger Games movie, the first of three best-selling young [...]
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Sahara Force India Formula One: Vijay’s Vision
03.22.2012 By:
The Australian Grand Prix was certainly an action-packed race and good viewing for the fans. It’s just a shame that we got caught up in some of the drama when Nico was taken out on the very first lap of the race. These things happen in racing, but it was a cruel end to an [...]
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What does March Madness mean for your network?
03.21.2012 By:
Our resident “Mashup Maven”, Stephanie is out on a well-deserved vacation, so while she’s away – I’ll be here – covering her beat. The Internet Innovation Alliance estimates almost a 30% increase in data consumption compared to 2011 through March Madness on Demand (MMOD), an app for your computer, iPhone, iPad and select Android phones. That’s nearly [...]
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Apps: Everything is going mobile
03.14.2012 By:
Of course everyone is talking about cloud and the latest trends, but have you seen what’s being written about the developments in mobile applications? I was browsing the Internet and discovered a bunch of articles about this, that and the other iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry apps. I’m not just referencing the light social or [...]
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The enterprise data center
03.08.2012 By:
I responded to a question on Quora a few weeks ago that asked how enterprises separated premium data centers from some of the “bargain” options on the market. In short: experienced data center buyers take the time to understand a service providers’ performance track record. Most performance issues can be lumped into three silos: reliability and [...]
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I love it when…
03.01.2012 By:
I love it when my work and home lives collide around a lesson. In my free time, I like to run. When I get the chance, I read a number of running blogs and magazines. I recently ran across an article that discusses how specialty running shoe stores have had to evolve to survive. At [...]
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How do you plan for your future IT needs?
02.28.2012 By:
Applications can grow at exponential speeds and sometimes your IT Infrastructure just isn’t up to the task. But deciding which platform can manage your growing computing needs best isn’t always an easy pick either. Our webinar last week, “Is Your IT Infrastructure Future-Proof?” gave attendees use cases for multiple IT platforms, including colocation, hosting, cloud [...]
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WPO technologies sweeten online retailers’ Valentine’s sales
02.14.2012 By:
Valentine’s Day can evoke different reactions from different people. For some, it could be a wonderful day of romance and gifts. For others, you may believe it’s just another Hallmark holiday meant to drive flower, card, candy and teddy bear sales. Similar feelings of sheer bliss or utter despair can also affect online retailers in [...]
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Data center power: Good versus bad
02.10.2012 By:
The amount of power consumed in a modern data center is generally incomprehensible. One hundred MW (that’s megawatts) of power can operate just one Apple, Google, Yahoo! or Facebook data center or 80,000 average American homes. In Internap data centers we have customers operating with 10KW of power draw in an 8’x2’x4’ locking, seismically reinforced, [...]
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Deriving ROI from your cloud implementations
02.09.2012 By:
Internap was privileged to recently host a cloud roundtable with three IT executives, including Tim Bell, VP, Information Technology & CIO of Greenway Medical, Raymond A. Repic, VP of Information Technology at Dell SecureWorks, as well as Michael J. Smith, Executive Director of NASA Shared Services Center. During this discussion, we heard how these leaders [...]
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Super size me – bigger isn’t always better when it comes to data centers
02.07.2012 By:
The 2004 film “Super Size Me” made us all aware that bigger isn’t always better. During the course of a month the independent filmmaker, Morgan Spurlock, consumed three meals per day at the nationwide fast food chain, McDonald’s, and each time he was asked if he wanted to “super size” his meal he agreed. On [...]
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Month one at Internap + Voxel – a view from the Ops side
02.03.2012 By:
It’s been a few weeks since Voxel was acquired by Internap and now is a good time for some reflection. Much of the “post-deal” craziness has started to die down and we’re back to our day jobs. A few high level points for those of you who don’t want to wait for my take on [...]
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A Mobile Revolution for All Ages
12.20.2011 By:
Recently I noticed my two-year-old daughter had learned how to scan through pictures on my wife’s iPhone with great ease by dragging her finger across the touch-screen. Yes folks, I’m here to tell you the mobile revolution is here for all ages. What’s more is people are now expecting all their content (including live video) [...]
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Oh no – what’s the CEO reading now?!
11.01.2011 By:
We’ve all dreaded that conversation with the CEO after he/she has come back from a long flight, having had plenty of time to catch up on their reading and pick up on the latest technology trend. Who hasn’t experienced that moment of “you know I was reading in the Economist that (fill in the blank [...]
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Just When You Thought There Weren’t Any Good Ideas Left
10.11.2011 By:
If you are like me, you are constantly coming up with what you think are original and innovative ideas. Problem is that they all seem to be taken already! Book concept? Taken. Dot com idea? Taken. Social media idea? Taken! Or wait…is it? Enter Pinterest. Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard that lets you organize and [...]
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Fashion Frenzy Brings Down Website
09.14.2011 By:
For weeks, I have been anticipating Target’s launch of Italian luxury knitwear designer, Missoni. I covet Missioni’s luxurious, iconic designs and have been checking Target’s website daily to get a sneak peak of the line including clothing, house wares and shoes! (Flashback to last year’s Liberty of London launch when I coerced unsuspecting Target employees [...]
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Metallica Meets the Cloud
09.05.2011 By:
A few team members from our marketing organization were at Dreamforce 2011 last week in my favorite city in the U.S. – San Francisco, the city by the bay. Dreamforce is billed as the cloud computing event of the year and I can tell you that it did not disappoint. Metallica headlined the Global Gala [...]
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Where staging environments fit in the lifecycle of high availability web apps
08.18.2011 By:
One of the more common discussions Voxel sales engineers have with potential clients is around whether staging environments are a necessary part of a hosting deployment. Our answer is always a resounding YES, especially for critical web apps undergoing rapid development. Unfortunately, staging environments often have a bad rep — some developers see them as [...]
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Is Customer Service Dead?
08.04.2011 By:
How many times have you heard people complain that customer service is dead? That no one cares and that companies only want to make money? Everyone has a horror story about being placed on hold as endless minutes, that seem like hours, tick by. When you finally talk to a rep, they are uncaring, rude [...]
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What Internet Traffic Statistics Tell Us
05.24.2011 By:
Sandvine Inc. published some very interesting analysis last week on Internet traffic. Here are our observations and perspective from the analysis: Source: Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight: Netflix Rising report Media Distribution over the internet is by far the largest bandwidth driver and the biggest growth area for Telecommunications Companies, Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers [...]
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Cloud and CDN – Enterprise Streaming Empowered by the Combination
04.22.2011 By:
The relationship of the Cloud and the CDN is currently an area of intense interest. How will the Cloud relate to the CDN? Will the Cloud be built on the CDN or will the Cloud subsume the CDN? Will the features of CDN (like geo-locating users and replication of data across regions) be carried over [...]
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