Tim Negris

When the US Government came for file sharing domains, I remained silent; I was not a file sharer. When they shut down Torrent Finder, I remained silent; I was not a Bit Torrent user. When they pressured Amazon to shut down WikiLeaks, I did not speak out; I was not a leaker. When they passed the COICA bill, I remained silent; I wasn't an infringer or counterfeiter. When they came for my domain, there was no one left to speak out. ... (more)

AT&T CEO: Cloud Is "Very, Very Important To Us" - And It's Just Like Outsourcing

In an outtake from a sweeping interview in the Sunday edition of the Dallas Morning News, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson tipped his hand just a bit, providing a peek at where the telecom giant might be headed with cloud computing and more than a peek at what might follow the end of AT&T's iPhone exclusivity - hint: it starts with "A" and ends with "ndroid". These days, every telecom carrier has a cloud angle.  Within the past week, we have seen cloud computing announcements from Verizon in the US and SingTel in Singapore, with many more to come, no doubt.  (For an interesting persp... (more)

New IBM Platform for Telcos Takes Public Cloud Computing to a New Level

IBM's has announced a new offering for the global "Telecom 1000" that has the potential to turbo-charge the telcos' entry into public cloud computing services, a market expected to grow to nearly $90B in the next five years.  The IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform is what the company calls, "a comprehensive set of hardware, software and services to help providers rapidly deliver cloud computing on their own," and adds, "It includes the most advanced, carrier-grade technology with all the essential security and service management capabilities to ensure reliability essential to th... (more)

Hitachi Stakes Out Cloud Storage with Advanced New Products

Hitachi Data Systems has sharpened its focus on "Big Data Clouds" with today's announcement of the latest version of its Hitachi Content Platform and a new product called the Hitachi Data Ingestor.  Together, they can be used by cloud service providers and distributed IT organizations to make easier, cheaper and safer to but large amounts of data, especially unstructured content, into the cloud. The Hitachi Content Platform is one big honkin' object store that can hold as much as 40 petabytes (1024 terabytes) of both structured and unstructured data per physical cluster, present... (more)

Cloud-First Initiative Threatens Federal Systems Status Quo

Vivek Kundra, the CIO of the United States, is getting down to business on the "Cloud First" initiative that was announced by the OMB a few weeks back.  He's been showing a snappy slide deck around town in DC the past few days that will probably affect different people in very different ways. Taxpayers should love it because it is a plan for saving money and improving efficiency throughout the government.  Commercial CIOs should learn from it, because it illustrates a practical and practicable approach to cloud computing.  And the freebooters and freeloaders of the "federal system... (more)