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Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Smartphone and Tablets may use the same OS but create different IT challenges

February 19, 2011

Smartphones are all over the enterprise. But most content on smartphones is replicated on a PC somewhere in your organization. The same is not true for tablets. Tablets have unique data capabilities and unique applications that many not fit on a laptop.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Tape storage capacities now at 5 TB

February 16, 2011

Analysis of:Record 5 TB for Tape by Oracle/StorageTek and Fujifilm | www.storagenewsletter.com

Oracle announced that the StorageTek T10000C tape drive. StorageTek T10000C will support 5 TB native storage capacity and 240 MB/s throughput. This is a native tape capacity higher than LTO 5 (1.5 TB) and 3.5-inch HDDs (3.0 TB). This product is used in new Oracle tape libraries that will store over an Exabyte (1,000 petabytes) of content.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Higher Storage Capacity in Small HDDs

February 16, 2011

Analysis of:Toshiba Expands 1.8” HDD Leadership with Smaller, Larger Capacity Drives | www.businesswire.com

Toshiba announced a single disk 1.8-inch HDD with storage capacities up to 220 GB. A two disk version would be 440 GB (larger than current 320 GB 2-disk product). 1.8-in HDDs are used in some automobile, mobile computer and AV player applications. Could a higher capacity iPod classic be coming?

Gerry ChristensenFounder and CEOWireless Waypoint

Sprint should consider both LTE and Differentiation

February 15, 2011

Analysis of:Sprint: Decision on LTE likely in four to six months | www.fiercewireless.com

In some ways, Sprint should be the same: they should go with LTE In other ways, Sprint should differentiate: they need to upgrade their PTT offering to one that is reliable yet offers compelling feature/functionality.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Storage vendors gaining clout over server vendors in the Data Center

February 12, 2011

Virtualization of servers has reduced the effort to manage servers. It has allowed IT to spend more energy managing the data in the enterprise. This has resulted in an increase in the importance of the storage vendors within the IT organization.

David BarnesPrincipal & OwnerBizWitz LLC

Can Best Buy Sustain a Service Premium?

February 10, 2011

Analysis of:Best Buy May Switch to Wal-Mart-Style Everyday Prices | www.bloomberg.com

There is a fundamental conflict between high service levels and everyday low prices. Retailers must choose between slower inventory turns that enable price arbitrage and faster turns that enable everyday low pricing in a low overhead system. It is not clear how Best Buy would retain its identity or its staff in an everyday low-price regime. 

Gerry ChristensenFounder and CEOWireless Waypoint

Number Portability: Opportunities and Threats for Carriers & Service Bureau

February 10, 2011

Analysis of:Wireless Intelligence: Regulatory moves to stimulate mobile competition produces mixed results | www.wirelessintelligence.com

Service Bureau’s such as NeuStar, TNS, Syniverse, and will compete for upcoming LNP contract. There is a potential for database (DB) consolidation including many currently disparate DB and directories. At the same time, Google offering portability can cause problems for the traditional network operators as call processing migrates to the cloud.

Everett ThompsonPresidentWired Real Estate Group

Equinix and Data Center Earnings Kickoff

February 9, 2011

Investors should find a modest return to growth this year and going forward. There will be laggards, but Equinix and Digital Realty Trust will be leading the pack. We expect a great call today.

Jack WagnerFounderImprovement Through Innovation, LLC

Are we on the door step of IT "Technological Change"

February 8, 2011

Analysis of:The Digitia Natives are Restless: The Impending Revold Against the IT Nanny State Published by Jim Shepherd of Gartner Research | www.gartnerinfo.com

The following comments are my response to the February 7th release of the AMR/Gartner “First Thing Monday” article: The “Digital Natives” Are Restless: The Impending Revolt Against the IT Nanny State, by Jim Shepherd of Gartner. In keeping with his analogies from the Sixties, I believe that his comments are “right on".

Gerry ChristensenFounder and CEOWireless Waypoint

Alcatel Lucent taking a step towards Network Optimization for 4G?

February 8, 2011

Analysis of:Alcatel-Lucent announces new base station architecture to handle data traffic | www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com

There will be many challenges and issues to deal with the rollout of 4G. One of those will be the question of what is the best strategy for base station optimization, antenna planning, and other specific macro cellular RF issues. Other issues that will arise will include RF offload onto WiFi. There will also be issues around Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) management.

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