Archive for February, 2009
A Series of Tubes #66 – Avanade’s Cloud Computing Research, On the Road with Stilgherrian
February 27th, 2009Avanade has released research into both implementation of, and intention to implement, cloud computing in the enterprise. Covering more than 500 C-level executives worldwide, the research has insights both on the global and Australian markets. Tubes talks to Avanade Australia’s managing director Craig Dower about the research.
And in our weekly discussion with crikey.com.au columnist Stilgherrian, [...]
A Series of Tubes #65 – CUDOS Adds Photonic ICs, Tubes Kicks the Filtering Fail-Whale
February 20th, 2009Last year, A Series of Tubes talked to Professor Ben Eggleton at CUDOS – the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems – about the centre’s all-optical switches (that interview can be found here ).
CUDOS has now added to its portfolio of breakthroughs with a PIC – photonic IC – which can not only [...]
A Series Tubes #64 – Stilgherrian on Twitter, Cisco on Traffic
February 13th, 2009It’s no surprise that Cisco is predicting traffic growth in its latest Visual Networking Index but it’s always interesting to try and peer into the future of IP traffic. Tubes talks to Cisco’s Arielle Summits and Thomas Barnett.
In particular, Cisco is looking at what might happen to mobile IP traffic – what are the drivers, [...]
A Series of Tubes #73: Let 2009 Begin in Earnest!
February 6th, 2009Tubes returns for 2009 with a look at a novel “green telecoms” proposal. What if we stored electricity in the most common, widely deployed, familiar and available storage technology in the world? Then, we could use the telecommunications network to tell the grid where it could find stored power – making the grid more efficient [...]