I recently responded to a friend’s weblog post, Ric Ferraro, when I read through his article about a day in his life in 2020. I thought I’d use this article to give my perspective on how some technologies and behaviors may look by then, as well as some ramblings on a few related topics. An […]
Cloud Services are already a significant market (estimated at $23B this year), and growing rapidly to $43B by 2012. We’ve seen several operators launch cloud computing services, e.g. AT&T, BT, Deutsche Telekom (Zimory exchange), KPN, NTT, Orange, Verizon (CaaS (Computing as a Service) where HP was its main technology partner), and Vodafone. There is a […]
Operators are stranded by a 25 year old operating system, their IN platform. Imagine a web application developer trying to compete in today’s market using Windows 1 as its operating system! Being stranded in the mid 1980s creates a surreal situation. Unfortunately for operators their customers are living in 2009, and their expectations of service […]