Verizon said it would be making a major investment in data centers for, among other things, cloud computing. The result will be an addition of space for over 5 thousand servers and an expansion to about 200 data centers worldwide, including sites in Australia and the UK. While “the cloud” gets a lot of play…
HP’s New CEO: Best Available but Not Perfect
HP picked former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker as its new CEO, a move that surprised many in the industry but that doesn’t particularly surprise us. The criticism of Apotheker stems largely from the fact that his tenure at SAP was hardly stellar; the company lost market share to Oracle throughout and he was unable to…
Net Neutrality–Again?
Rep. Waxman, the House sponsor of an attempt to pass legislation to direct the FCC’s decisions on net neutrality, has withdrawn the bill for lack of support. This ends, at least for the moment, another of Congress’ attempts to create telecom policy through explicit legislation. It’s not the first time bills have been dropped; since…
Welcome to Our New Blog Format!
Welcome to CIMI Corporation’s new blog. This is the format for all of our future blogging, and it’s the same structure as we use on our TMT Advisor premium blog-based information service. This blog is visible to everyone, but unlike our previous blog, this one will also support registration of users and some commenting. We…