The inaugural US-China ICT roundtable event hosted by the United States Information Technology Office (USITO) is an important step to converging two of the leading nations in ICT technology. Join TIA NOW as they speak with Matt Roberts, Managing Director of USITO.

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Alcatel-Lucent’s reliability engineer Randee Adams tell us how her new co-authored book provides IS/IT system and solution architects, developers, and engineers with the knowledge needed to assess the impact of virtualization and cloud computing on service reliability and availability. It reveals how to select the most appropriate design for reliability diligence to assure that user expectations are met. The book is available from Amazon, Wiley.com, iBook and other retailers.

Learn more about Cloud and Alcatel-Lucent.

 

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Telefonica Digital is building a comprehensive cloud computing offering and has just launched its Instant Servers solution – an on-demand IaaS product that builds on the technology platform of Joyent, the Silicon Valley cloud specialist in which it made a strategic investment back in January. But who are its target customers and how does it differ from rival solutions?

Featuring: Moises Navarro, Director Strategy & Services, Global Cloud Services, Telefonica Digital

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Can telcos create high-value community clouds to serve the needs of specific vertical industries? Can they mobilize the cloud to transform business processes encompassing people and embedded devices?

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Explanations is TelecomTV's sanity check on those technical thickets and buzz-phrases our industry likes so much. Explanations doesn't provide the whole story, but its entries are designed to give our readers and viewers a starting-point for further investigation. We hope it's useful.

One of IT's most used and abused words, 'cloud' is nevertheless the direction that  the entire industry believes it's following. Since it's so important you might think a little clarity is in order.  We thought so too, so here is our Cloud Explanation, delivered by two industry experts from consultancy Informa:

Participants:

Camille Mendler, Head of Enterprise Verticals at Informa Telecoms & Media

Giles Cottle, Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media

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