Software-as-a-Service: Customer Retention
Video: The online and ondemand world present the Application vendor with many new challenges. With the flexibility and choice of so many available solutions new methods to retain customers need to be considered.
Web-Scale Computing – The Foundation for Software as a Service
Video: The push to deliver software as a service is forcing many software development companies to worry about challenges like datacenter management, hard-disk reliability, server uptime and router instabilities. These companies are quickly realizing that delivering a cost-effective service with guaranteed performance is a highly specialized activity.
Loving the Gadgety Goodness
Drew Ravani reflects on the cameras, software and gear he came across at NAB 2008… and yes, there’s a video library chock full of interviews too.
Kids Have The Darndest Video Consumption Habits
Video: Dan Rayburn asked me to lead a session at the Streaming Media East conference, which ended last night. Instead of having a bunch of suits on the stage from the technology side of the media industry talking to an audience full of suits from the same industry about stuff they all agree on, I thought it would be more interesting to organize a panel of kids that we can all ask questions and LISTEN to. A focus group of sorts.
Who Killed Colonel Mustard? And What’s Psystar?
On Tuesday we ran a brief blurb about a company called Psystar and their curious new $400 OpenMac. And that’s when all sorts of oddities began.
Breakfast on Broadway with Peter Foley
Video: Peter Foley discusses how virtualization can advance a data center’s operability with regards to storage, computing, networking, and security.
Breakfast on Broadway with Bill Driscoll
Video: Bill Driscoll explores the challenges IT executives face when migrating to a virtualized infrastructure in efforts to shift the equations of power cost, facility space, business continuity and agility in their favor.
Fuel for Thought: Biodiesel Finance & Investment Summit
ARTICLE: The big news to come out of last week’s Biodiesel Finance and Investment Summit is this: the biodiesel industry must evolve in order to remain viable.
The crux of this evolution, however, is in what direction and to what end?
Wiimote Head Tracking
Custom head tracking using a Wii and Wii Remote.
CDNs & P2P: Is Hybrid Content Delivery the Future or Just Hype?
Video: P2P is making headlines these days for all the right reasons. Once the bane of the media world, P2P is emerging as a critical enabling technology of a video-centric Internet. Companies are increasingly looking at Peer-Assisted content delivery to leverage the inherent cost and scaling efficiencies, but what about the traditional CDNs? What role does P2P play in their future?
