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John Furrier · 1 year ago

Great Post James! We have been talking about it over at Broadband Developments as well. www.BroadDev.com

I'd love to at some point do a podcast with you. A small group is forming who are sheding some very bright light and big voice on this topic. ping me anytime at johnfurrier at gmail dot com

I'll link to this later today

David Berlind · 1 year ago

There's another angle on the intersection of networking and cloud that's also worth pointing out. This point was made by one of the CIOs on stage at Evening in the Cloud at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in June. She worked for an ad agency and they have a strong interest in gaining the benefits of the cloud. But most of the collaboration at her company takes place around bandwidth intensive intellectual property (graphics, videos, etc.). Speed is of the essence and their networks are designed to move that material between end points without delay. It was suggested that a lot of the rendering of that material could take place in the cloud. But her concern was that her users wouldn't be able to retrieve that material out of the cloud nearly as quickly as they can pass it around their own networks.

Greg Ness · 1 year ago

Thats one of hte reasons I think that both virtualization and cloud will be big for the network players.

Greg (Archimedius)

Howard Oliver · 1 year ago

Hi James: You might want to take a look at EsoteraS3 that has a cloud-based storage solutiion. Their CTO and President Tom Chalker would be an interesting person for you to talk to. He can add to the ideas you developed on storage allocations.

kanimas · 10 months ago

where can i get more information on network related to cloud computing? seriously interesting stuff u've got here man

jamesurquhart · 10 months ago

Two places to pick up the conversation:

My new blog on CNET: http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds
The Greg Ness founded http://infra20.com