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- Richard Clarke on recent Mideast cable outages
- I just happened to be reading Breakpoint by Richard Clarke last week. The premise for the book is that the US finds itself undergoing a series of attacks on its infrastructure starting with simultaneous bombings of several beach heads for the main trans-Atlantic fiber cables as well as undersea cuttings...
- Tags: Richard Clarke, Outage, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Fiber, Mideast, Cable Outage, Breakpoint, Threatchaos, Cable, Network Technology, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Repairs start on Mideast undersea cable
- Repairs start on Mideast undersea cableSo..., who''s gotthe largest representation on the repair team? NSA? Mossad? FSB nee KGB? Someone else?Help! I need more tin foil!----------------A cheap solution that doesn't work is neither.Say What?
- Tags: Network technology, Mideast, cable
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Third undersea cable severed in Mideast
- Third undersea cable severed in MideastI am not going to parrot the inevitable sky is falling warnings...[i]Nice attempt at calming the waters but network issues have a way of cascading. What if US oil and gas companies that have operations in the Mideast put some back up services there? What...
- Tags: Network technology, isolation, Mideast, cable
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
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- Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die
- Perhaps never has the Detroit auto industry faced such a challenge. Not from the small cool VW beetle in the 1960s. Not from the onslaught of Datsun and Toyota a decade later. Not from the Honda Civic in the Nineties. This time the challenge is not...
- Tags: Industry, Gasoline, Therapy, General Motors Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- More oil refineries coming right up. Will this stunt cleantech growth?
- Saudi Arabia is preparing to add more refineries in the next few years. And they plan to begin refining more of their less desirable, more sulphurous, crude oil. Saudi is aiming for an 80% increase in refining capacity. Most refineries in the world can now only handle...
- Tags: Refinery, Canada, Clean Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Water, leaks and big money
- It's going to cost a lot of money to fix America's leaky pipes. Not as much as it takes to occupy a country, in say, the Mideast, but a lot of money nonetheless. With inflation now hitting China and other Asian manufacturers, I suggest we fix these pipes...
- Tags: Pipe, America, Green Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging markets
- Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging marketsIt is a process to hit price points that will work everywhere. OLPC hasat least hit price points that mean probably hundreds of millions more will now be able to afford computers. True, there are billions in need, but, prices will...
- Tags: Financial services, Marketing research, emerging market, $100 laptop, laptop computer, Gartner Inc., phone, computer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Air wars and the future of green tech firms
- Right now American regs for air pollution and greenhouse gases are in suspension. You could say they're up in the air. At the center of this air war: the Environmental Protection folks EPA. The EPA got hit with one new lawsuit this week, and the threat...
- Tags: Green Technology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- News to know: Cosmos, a new OS; Google Apps; Cisco worries; Patches galore
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Cosmos: An open-source .Net-based microkernel OS is born Microsoft runs its datacenters on 'Autopilot' Dan Farber: Google launches free Team Edition of Apps. Larry Dignan: Cisco's second quarter in line; Sees slower growth ahead ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Time Warner Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Operating System, Patch Management, Cisco Systems Inc., SugarCRM, Virtualization, Cable, Network Technology, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Storage
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Richard+Clarke+on+recent+Mideast+cable+outages
- Richard+Clarke+on+recent+Mideast+cable+outages9/11Think about what would have happened on 9/11 if an airliner would have taken out 60 Hudson Street in Manhattan, rather than the WTC. The 60 Hudson office is one of the most dense international communications hubs in the world. Voice, data including TV network feeds, Internet...
- Tags: Hudson
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Don't get excited over cable breaks. Yet.
- This weekend there was a lot of hand wringing over some posts to Digg, reddit, and slash dot that pointed to this page at the Internet Traffic Report. There is one router in Iran that is not responding to pings so it shows up red. This led to the rapid...
- Tags: Iran, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Fourth+cable+cut+in+Mideast
- Fourth+cable+cut+in+MideastHave you ever worked with fiber optic cables?Have you ever worked with fiber optic networks? I've been in that line since 1994 my job was installing and securing those networks, and I challenge you to show me a foolproof way of tapping into FO cables without getting actual access to...
- Tags: Network technology, cable, Fourth cable cut
- Discussion threads 2008-02-03
- Fourth cable cut in Mideast
- On top of the news today that yet another cable has been broken connecting the Mideast to the rest of the world we learn that the first two cables were not cut by ships dragging their anchors. According to at least one report an Egyptian ministry...
- Tags: Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-03
- Third undersea cable severed in Mideast
- I am not going to parrot the inevitable sky is falling warnings that are sure to come from pundits everywhere regarding the just heard news that a third undersea cable in the Mideast has been cut. Coincidence or well timed targeted attack? will be the question of the day. ...
- Tags: Coincidence, Internet, Cable, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Network Technology, Security, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, It Operations, Networking, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- SAP: Business on track; Fourth quarter revenue up 10 percent
- SAP provided another data point on the health of the tech economy, outlining that its fourth quarter is on track. On Monday, SAP joined IBM in announcing that the fourth quarter was strong. SAP (all resources, BTL posts) said fourth quarter revenue is expected to be about...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Euro, SAP AG, Software Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- There's still a lot of life left in desktop office suites
- There's still a lot of life left in desktop office suitesSlight CorrectionThe author said: "Until now, Sun supported only StarOffice, which is based on the OpenOffice code base"OO is based on the Star code base, which Sun donated.Which will be faster, Google adding offline capabilities, or MS addingonline capabilities. Also,...
- Tags: Word processors, OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, desktop office suite, OOo, Sun Microsystems Inc., word-processor, online word-processor, security
- Discussion threads 2007-12-16
- Photos: Luxury drives Mideast motor show
- Nothing but the most chic of vehicles for sheiks and other Middle Eastern car lovers at the 2007 Dubai auto show. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-11-20
- iPhone crosses the 1 million mark, but what about the 10 million mark?
- iPhone crosses the 1 million mark, but what about the 10 million mark?Deja vu all over again.Typical assumptions regarding Apple. That their success is the result of hype.Perhaps the iPhone has sold a million phones in 74 days because it's one h hell of a product. If that is the...
- Tags: marketshare, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- Crows smarter than U.S. government, betcha already knew that
- Crows or Congress? White House or Ravens? Recent research indicates you might be better off working with Crows. Seems they can solve two-step problems, finding a tool to get a tool that gets them the reward.Those D.C. types don't seem to see that if they want to...
- Tags: U.S. Government, Money, Tool, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-18
- To chip or not to chip?
- To chip or not to chip?No Chipping - Please Read All Of ThisLet me just provide a concern many Christians have with chipping. The Holy Bible says that in the future all Christians at the same time will be taken from the planet - vanished - aka the rapture....
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Holy Bible, chip, Bible
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
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