Cloud Computing: Impact of Comcast’s Acquisition

February 13, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: James Carlini.

COMCAST’s recent $45 billion acquisition of Time-Warner Cable was big news in the Cable TV world, but it should be big news in the area of cloud computing and network diversity. Instead of looking at COMCAST as a cable TV provider, it is time that we should be looking at it as another alternative to the traditional network carriers like AT&T and Verizon for our data needs both at home and at the business location.

Re-Thinking Cloud Computing Strategy

Do you have network redundancy in place in your cloud computing applications? They cannot be considered "mission critical" if you only have them running on one connection to the central office. Ninety-nine percent of the commercial buildings are still in the horse-and-buggy days of having one main connection to one central office of the phone company for connectivity…

Corporate tenants who have mission-critical applications should be using more than one network access point for their core business applications as well as a secondary network carrier with a totally separate network topology. If you aren’t, you have a huge single point-of-failure embedded in your network and are not even close to having something reliable…