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I was a first time attendee at CES earlier this month, as part of a Cisco contingent attending to meet with many Service Provider customers. For sure, the main attraction for our customers – beyond the lights and magic of Las Vegas – was seeing and learning about the Cisco Videoscape architecture which enables Operators to create unified consumer Digital TV and IP video experiences across a variety of screens. At CES, we introduced a series of new cloud-enabled Videoscape innovations. We showed customers, analysts and the industry how we are leading the evolution to an IP-enabled TV everywhere environment. We underscored that with announcements of several new customers. It was also an opportunity to showcase some of our SP Mobility solutions which were  of great interest to our Service Provider customers, especially those who won’t attend Mobile ... (more)

Data Services: the Cloud and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)

The principles behind Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) were established long before the Internet became a force, and certainly before the appearance of Cloud infrastructure. Although many people consider SOA as well as the Cloud to be about ways of building, deploying and managing applications, these technologies and methodologies are also important in making "big data" useful and manageable. Indeed, SOA and Cloud are increasingly becoming so intertwined as to cause major confusion in the marketplace. Let's be clear - there's SOA, and there's Cloud and there's the intersectio... (more)

PaaSing Comments – Data and PaaS

I’ve been looking at the PaaS space for some time now.  I spent some time with the good folks at CloudBees (naturally), and have had many conversations on CloudFoundry, Azure, and more with vendors, customers and other cloudy folks. Krishnan posted a very good article over on CloudAve, and at one level I fully agree that PaaS will be come more of a data-centric (vs. code-centric) animal over the next few years.  To some degree that’s generally true of all areas of IT – data, intelligence and action from data, etc.  But there is a lot more to this. Most PaaS frameworks have very... (more)

Bill Polian Signs On With SiriusXM NFL Radio

NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today that former Indianapolis Colts Vice Chairman Bill Polian has joined SiriusXM NFL Radio, the only radio channel dedicated to the NFL 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101014/NY82093LOGO) Polian will make his debut on Monday, January 30, on Late Hits (8:00 – 11:00 pm ET).  He'll host the show again on Wednesday, February 1, and Friday, February 3, and will be heard regularly on the channel throughout the year.  SiriusXM NFL Radio is available to listene... (more)

SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight Book Review

I have done a lot of SharePoint custom development and I see Silverlight as the answer to the horrible web part programming model Microsoft has made available in SharePoint. I have yet to see anyone write SharePoint web parts that aren't spaghetti code. Every major web part implementation I have seen has been a big ball of mud, and I have seen a lot. I moved to Silverlight for web parts as soon as I could. It is a great programming model. Microsoft continues to play the top secret game with regards to Silverlight so rumors of lack of browser support in the next year or two are bein... (more)