Are you paying too much for cloud services?

Knowing exactly how much and what type of cloud service a company needs is one of the more challenging aspects of deploying a cloud strategy, and most enterprises are getting it wrong, according to experts.

“The whole premise of the cloud should be to drive the IT director to think small, but people aren’t doing that,” says Sharon Wagner, president of Cloudyn, an Israeli company whose SaaS application helps businesses monitor their cloud usage and provides recommendations on how to right-size it. “Many customers are over provisioning, which leads directly to over paying.”

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iPhoto for iOS 5.1 or later

Our Mobile App of the Day is iPhoto for iOS 5.1 or later. With iPhoto for iOS, Apple brings Multi-Touch to photography in a breakthrough way. Browse, edit, and share your photos from your iPad or iPhone, like never before – all the powerful tools you need are at your fingertips. And with iCloud, you can share your experiences as stunning photo journals. Use simple gestures to quickly sort through photos and find your best shots. A powerful set of Multi-Touch tools helps you perfect color and exposure, crop, straighten, and retouch images. Enhance pictures by adding beautiful, Apple-designed effects with just a tap. Read more…

Apple new iPad requires 2.1 amp to charge, USB ports will still charge at slower rate at 1A with USB boosting software installed

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It is a known fact that Apple products tends to draw more current than the usual gadgets from other manufacturers. As there are plenty of USB ports on motherboards or notebooks, the tendency of plugging in to the PC for quick charge is quite the norm for most readers.

On the left is the charger for iPhone 3GS. On the right is the charger with adapter (middle) for new generation iPad.

In the past, we have iPhone 3GS that charges real slowly on the standard USB ports.

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IPv6 networking: Bad news for small biz

Sysadmin blog IPv6 is traditionally a networking topic. Yet IPv6 is as much a business consideration as it is a technical one. As world IPv6 day rolls around again, we’re going to see an ever-increasing amount of technical IPv6 coverage. Before we do, I think a business interjection is warranted.

IPv6 was neither designed for small biz nor consumers. IPv6 was designed by big-ticket network engineers bearing global infrastructure and enormous enterprise networks in mind. Learned gentlemen who live in a world where buying IBM and connecting it with Cisco never got anyone fired.

High atop this lofty tower of big data and even bigger budgets, RFC after RFC was submitted, debated, refined, revised and eventually implemented in the code we see in our operating systems today.

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Mobile Miscellany: week of March 26th, 2012

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, we’ve seen hints of a Droid Bionic 2, and unfortunately, a number of T-Mobile customers will need to brace for a price hike. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore the “best of the rest” for this week of March 26th, 2012.

Amazon Appstore updated to 2.3

If you prefer skirting the Play Store with Amazon’s alternative, you may be glad to know that the Appstore’s latest version now allows users to download applications up to 50MB in size over their mobile data connection — a significant increase from the previous 20MB limitation. Read more…