Posts by: Lane Campbell
If you just need something for baby pictures, Windows 8’s self-healing Storage Spaces might work nicely for you, Nexenta CEO Evan Powell says — but he doesn’t see it for big data, according to a post on the United Kingdom’s The Register.
Powell’s skepticism comes after Windows president Steven Sinofsky’s personal [...]
Continue Reading →Asterisk, the leading open source platform for telephony, is adding high definition (HD) media capabilities, including video, as well as better voice and videoconferencing.
Digium, the main corporate sponsor of the open source project. announced Asterisk 10 at the end of October. As this article from InformationWeek explains, whereas Asterisk previously supported 8- and 16-kHz [...]
Continue Reading →Whether you are in the business of selling flower bouquets or handling health care claims, chances are your business may need a call center. Start researching the best methods for setting up your own call center and you will see how many decisions there are to be made. Equipment, training, and personnel expenses can add [...]
Continue Reading →When planning a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, you first have to decide if you want your desktops to be highly available.
If the answer is yes, then the next step is figuring out how to accomplish that. To determine your need for high availability computing, you must first understand the components [...]
Continue Reading →10/5/11
Steve Jobs has passed away.
http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/
Commentary from Lane Campbell CEO of Syntress
About two years ago my friend Thomas Ervin decoded the cell phone number from an obfuscated Steve Wozniak business card image on Gizmodo. [...]
Continue Reading →Enterprise storage has clearly become a standard, not just some kind interesting experiment among niche players.
The latest evidence comes by way of Salesforce.com, which just announced that it invested $50 million in Box.net, a leader in storage solutions in the cloud.
It’s not just the small fries that are using Box.net [...]
Continue Reading →FreeSWITCH is a scalable open source cross-platform telephony platform designed to route and interconnect popular communication protocols using audio, video, text or any other form of media. It was created in 2006 to fill the void left by proprietary commercial solutions. FreeSWITCH also provides a stable telephony platform on which many telephony applications can be [...]
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