Troy Angrignon, VP of Sales and Partnering at US-based cloud specialist, Cloudscaling, on why the world needs an open, Linux equivalent in the cloud space. He claims it should have the openness and configurability of a full, standards-based product but provide most of the cost and scale benefits of the big commodity cloud services available from the likes of Amazon. 

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The Ministry of Education in San Juan, Argentina, is a government agency responsible for creating and executing policies for education excellence. The Ministry designs equitable and innovative educational programs for pre-school, primary, secondary and higher education levels. Their aim is to ensure a quality education system that contributes to the integral training of people and development of the province by formulating and implementing policies, standards and sectoral regulation.

NEC delivered a secure Cloud solution to integrate and optimize information management for the Ministry's education system. Utilizing desktop virtualization and IP telephony, this solution improves the efficiency of managing the administrative and academic processes within the educational institutions. It also provides users quick and easy access to Internet, email, file sharing via Web portals, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony service.

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What impact will vendor consolidation have on telcos, and can the industry afford to invest in the new converged markets?

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Travel is often cited as one of the most costly expenses for corporates and organisations. But it is costly for the environment too, with around 40% of travel-related carbon emissions coming from business-related trips. The use of high-quality telepresence can vastly reduce the need for physical travel, with one US study projecting that changes enabled by broadband networks could save the equivelant of 11% of US oil imports through transportation substition or "virtualisation".

Participants:

Paul Bradley, International Business Manager, HP Halo
Frank Kasparek, Sales & Marketing Europe, HP Halo
Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO, Dreamworks
Manoj Leelanivas, VP Product Management & Marketing, Juniper Networks
David Thodey, CEO, Telstra
Hugh Saddington, GM Marketing Strategy & Analytics, Telstra
 

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