Level 3 Communications Blog
At this year’s Gartner IT Expo, several Gartner analysts described the newest challenge of information management as “Bigger Data.” Big Data is yesterday’s problem. Now we’re dealing with Bigger Data. Bigger Data isn’t a problem driven by the amount of data. We already knew that data was going to grow. Bigger Data refers to the [...]
There is a massive amount of data that shows that faster web pages lead to better returns for the web site owner; returns measured in the revenue generated, the customer satisfaction achieved or number of click-throughs achieved. The specific return depends on what the web site is designed to accomplish. But it turns out that [...]
According to the Mayan calendar, the world comes to an end in 2012. And while the Mayan’s were some pretty smart people, I believe that the Sun has a few more years left. But as anyone who has followed my previous musings will know, I’m a real big fan of relativity. So I’m thinking: maybe [...]
Okay I’m not talking about Ethernet consuming all of the residents of planet earth like a certain now famous gelatinous mass. You didn’t miss BlobFest did you? No instead I’m talking about how Ethernet is going to become the de facto way we connect things together (when we connect them with wires anyway). And there [...]
Yesterday’s massive power outage in Southern California shows how much we depend on ubiquitous provision of electricity. And that we just assume it will always be there. Power outages like this are very rare. Yes of course natural phenomena like hurricanes, earthquakes and the like damage physical infrastructure. Much like they do with Level 3’s [...]
Last week, while the Apple fanboys all flocked to San Francisco to have their collective minds blown by the iCloud, the real action in cloud was happening down the 101 in Southern Cal at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). I was really surprised with what I saw at E3. While everyone else was buzzing over the [...]
