Cisco just released their latest CRS-3 internet backbone router. The box supports an aggregate throughput of 322 Tbit/s. Wow ! A capacity never heard of. This indicates some underlying trends. Let’s look at this. Read more
Dossier
Wednesday March 10th, 2010To cloud or not to cloud?
Cloud computing: purchasing IT-services from external partner
Can cloud computing relieve some of your IT-worries? Via the cloud, you can purchase IT from an external partner in the form of services: infrastructure, platforms and applications ‘as-a-service’. Belgacom offers a hybrid model for cloud computing. Read more
News
Tuesday March 9th, 2010Skype on Samsung TV brings videoconferencing into your living room
Video conferencing on your TV. It does not come like a total surprise or rocket-innovating technology. I already mentioned it in an earlier post. But now it comes fairly quick. It should be available in Western-Europe in about 6 months time. Put on clean socks now, when watching TV ;-). As I don’t want to sell you soap to clean your socks, let’s talk about this trend.
Customer cases
Friday March 5th, 2010Aramark expands its catering with IT-services
Belgacom guarantees availability
Aramark uses IT to offer extra services to their catering clients. The machines on which the Web-based applications are run are based at a Belgacom Net Center. This way, Aramark can guarantee the availability of the applications around the clock. Read more
Government
Friday March 5th, 2010Network provides the basis for more and better service
City of Oudenaarde opts for PubliLink Explore
Step by step, the IT- support for the municipal authorities of Oudenaarde is evolving towards cloud computing. In order to be able to offer available and high-performance applications to staff and citizens, the city switched over to PubliLink Explore. Read more
Security
Thursday March 4th, 2010How to avoid loosing your face on the web
DNS is one of the silent technologies that is used by the whole world without thinking about it. It stands for Domain Name Service and is allows us to type a name like www.acmecorporation.com (*) to get in contact with the target server. It is part of the internet and its associated technologies. It works that well we do not even remember that we are using it. But there is a trick.
Dossier
Wednesday March 3rd, 2010SME partner for cloud computing
Complete ICT-solutions for SMEs
SMEs have specific ICT-needs, although their complexity is often comparable to the needs of large companies. More than ever, Belgacom is positioning itself as a partner able to offer end-to-end solutions for SMEs. Read more
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