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Only Connect? M2M, the Cloud and Big Data
One petabyte a day: That’s how much data BMW’s Connected Drive cars will generate by 2017 reckons BMW Group IT infrastructure chief Mario Müller. I teased out this statistic while chairing IIR’s Telecom Cloud Services conference this week. As Müller underscored, M2M data will require plenty of processing power – and is a great opportunity for… Read more
Parlez-vous Telecom-ese?
The dog and bone business wants bread and honey.* That’s what a London Cockney would say. But did you know that the telecom industry has its own argot? I call it Telecom-ese. Grammar and syntax resemble English, but there are important differences: Telecom-ese articulates tough realities in socially-acceptable ways. Call it a patois of political… Read more
Barbarian at the gate: Verizon’s disruptive CloudSwitch buy
Verizon’s buy of innovative startup CloudSwitch is a nasty surprise to those who deny the growing power of telcos in the cloud. After all, who would expect a telco to buy a firm that helps enterprises migrate apps securely to their competitors’ clouds, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Windows Azure? Who’s the barbarian now?… Read more
