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Nexenta stands by ZFS for enterprise storage

Lane Campbell — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:04:20 +0000

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 pitch [...]

Consulting as Asterisk Goes HIgh-Def

Lane Campbell — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:18:39 +0000

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 [...]

Need a Call Center? Consider Hosted PBX

Lane Campbell — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:07:20 +0000

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 [...]

High Availability Computing and Your VDI Setup

Lane Campbell — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:41:29 +0000

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 [...]

Steve Jobs Dies

Lane Campbell — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:17:17 +0000

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. Using that number, I [...]

Enterprise storage gets big boost from Salesforce.com

Lane Campbell — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:00:45 +0000

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 [...]

Buying VoIP is almost as hard as deploying IT

page.lysupportadmin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:39:09 +0000

There is a range of quality when it comes to VoIP. Cellphone calls run on VoIP, so you have an idea of what I mean by “range of quality.”

But if you are buying, selling, implementing or considering VoIP, how do you decide which to buy, [...]

Syntress Loves Open Source: Freeswitch Consulting

Lane Campbell — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:12:06 +0000

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 [...]

Chicago VoIP: Syntress Is On the Case

Lane Campbell — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:04:07 +0000

Chicago VoIP! Sounds like a cop show doesn’t it? VoIP is almost as exciting these days.

TMCnet published an article recently about the growing interest in VoIP applications, particularly in the arena of telecommuting workers and small businesses that need a powerful communication solution without the big price tag. [...]

Nexenta part of what’s keeping capitalism alive

Lane Campbell — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:44:45 +0000

Nexenta is one of a new breed of solutions out there that allows users of a lot of data storage to store files without being locked in to a particular vendor of storage devices.

This may not sound like a big deal, but it really is.

Anyone who’s worked in the world of [...]