Everyone has a mobile phone. How many of you have a tablet? I won’t say iPad because some of you don’t have iPads but how many of you have a tablet? So that’s about 50/60%.

And how many of you here have a laptop? Virtually everybody has at least a laptop and a mobile phone and most of you have a tablet. And you’re using them all? Do you have a problem if you can’t connect all of them to the Wi-Fi at the same time? That’s the problem I have. So for me connectivity is really critical in every device.
 
I also want that everything will be somewhere else and somewhere else for me is what you call the Cloud. I want my storage somewhere else, I don’t want to carry around with me, I don’t want it sitting on hard disks in my office, I want it out there somewhere else in the Cloud.
 
I want my power consumption to be somewhere else, I want it to be sitting in data centres, I want it to be anywhere else but on my battery or in my room heating my room up. And finally, I want all of my applications, all of my software, everything connected working all the time, I want somebody else maintaining it, I don’t want to be my own IT manager.
 
So addicted to connectivity and I want everything like this somewhere else. In other words, what I want is that Ethernet LAN I used to have in the office, do any of you remember this, you used to go in the office and you used to plug into the Ethernet LAN and the servers were working and the software update was done and everything was magic, it never went down.
 
And we got used to it, Ethernet LANs and IT Managers became a part of our lives. And then what happened? We started travelling and we started working from home, we started working from the car and it’s not like anything at LAN anymore. So what we really want is a global Ethernet LAN, that’s really what we want. We want to be able to plug in anywhere, whether it’s in the hotel or if it’s the plan landing and we want to feel like we’re in that office with our LAN, we want a global LAN. And we don’t want to be our own IT Managers, we don’t want to manage the devices and the IP addresses and all that good stuff, we want somebody else to do it, we want a service provider to do it.
 
So my contention is I want a global Ethernet service wherever I am that fits my needs and I dare to say that that’s true not only for individuals but also for businesses, for everybody. Everybody wants that global Ethernet service that they can plug in anywhere that’s as reliable and as fast and as simple as the LAN in their office. So that is what 2.0 is pointing to.
 
It’s not the solution, it’s not the be all and end all, it’s one step along the way to that truly seamless global Ethernet LAN. And it comes in four flavours; it comes in ELine, E-LAN, E-Tree and E-Access. Perhaps they’re terms that you’re less familiar with. You might have heard of point-to-point, multipoint and rooted multipoint wholesale, but really that Ethernet service that you want is encapsulated in everything that the MEF, the Metro Ethernet Forum, defines and promotes and certifies.
 

 Denver – March 14, 2012 – ViaWest, one of the largest privately held data center, cloud computing and managed services providers in North America, is pleased to announce that it has appointedJason Carolan as its Chief Technology Officer.  In this new position, Carolan is responsible for the strategic direction of all ViaWest products and technology initiatives. 

Carolan joined ViaWest in 2011 as Vice President of Product Development and was responsible for the successful introduction of ViaWest’s KINECTed Cloud and KINECTed Storage products.  Prior to ViaWest, Carolan held leadership positions in both small startup companies and large Fortune 100 enterprises.  His previous roles include over 10 years at Sun Microsystems, where he was a Distinguished Engineer in network and systems architecture, focused on cloud computing and data center architectures, and Director of Cloud Services Engineering at VMware.  He was the lead author of one of the first books highlighting the combined use of virtualization and automation.  Carolan also has several patents in networking, data center resource management, virtualization, and security.

“With his nearly 20 years of experience, Jason brings an impressive background in product architecture, product management and technical sales. He has contributed greatly to our success in the short time he has been with ViaWest,” said Nancy Phillips, ViaWest Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder.  “Jason’s breadth of experience and leadership will help to assure ViaWest’s continued success in building a product portfolio and solutions that are centered around our customers’ needs.”

For additional information on Carolan and other ViaWest executives, please visit our website atwww.viawest.com. 

About ViaWest

ViaWest is one of the largest privately held data center service providers in North America.  They provide colocation, complex hosting, cloud and managed services to businesses of all sizes nationwide.  ViaWest owns and operates 22 enterprise-class data center facilities in Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada, delivering high-quality, flexible solutions designed to support customers' unique business needs.  For additional information on ViaWest, please visitwww.viawest.com or call 1-877-448-9378.

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LOUISVILLE, Colo.– February 08, 2012 –Zayo will present at theEthernet Technology Summit 2012. The Summit is taking place on February 21-23, 2012 at the Doubletree by Hilton in San Jose, California. 
 
David Howson, President of Zayo Bandwidth, will participate in the “Ethernet and Cloud Computing” panel on February 23, 2012 from 8:30-10:00 a.m. The presentation will examine how cloud and Ethernet work together to provide business solutions that move data more effectively and cost-efficiently. Additionally, Howson will discuss ways to implement cloud over Ethernet and the benefits these solutions supply businesses.

To learn more about Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

SINGAPORE--Carriers should invest in carrier Ethernet to boost the reliability and bandwidth of their systems, which are essential to meet the needs of enterprise customers looking to deploy business-class cloud. But they need to consider their customer profile and needs before investing, stated insiders.

Goh Boon Huat, vice president of business products at Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), acknowledged that talks of carriers becoming "irrelevant" has been making the rounds as core services such as fixed voice and SMS (short message service) are commoditized. Thus, carriers will need to rethink how they make use of their network assets and find new models to drive value for their customers, he added. The executive was a keynote speaker at the Carrier Ethernet Asia-Pacific conference held here on Thursday.
 
One way to do so is for carriers to package their full stack of services and network and sell these to their enterprise customers, he suggested. SingTel, for one, has integrated its basic voice and data services, IT services such as managed services, unified communications and cloud computing services "tightly" and have given customers the option of procuring these services as a bundled package or on its own, the vice president noted.

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The latest edition of the NetEvents EMEA Summit in Italy set the record straight about the cloud hype through an extensive
gathering of telecom leaders who discussed the cloud merits.  The hype around cloud computing is “deafening,” according to
Hype Cycle report from the Gartner Group. From multinational consulting firms and systems integrators down to freelance
consultants, they all claim a suite of cloud related services, and Gartner warns that such ”cloud washing” risks accelerating the
entire industry into a trough of disillusionment.

According to James Walker, Head of Global VPN Services, Tata Communications, the cloud is actually that wavy diagram that
we as vendors tend to put on whiteboards when we’re talking to customers. And there’s a multitude of sins that are hidden behind that wavy shape. “So you’ll get some illustrations of that wavy cloud shortly but we tend to talk about the network as obviously existing or obviously doing the service that it’s expected to do. But in fact there’s some quite serious challenges that we as carriers are starting to face about how to link together all these various platforms whether it’s private
cloud or public cloud,” he added.

Walker was clear that the cloud brings a variety of opportunities but it also brings a number of challenges. “I think the opportunities are ones that we as an industry are very focused on because it looks like there’s money attached to it hopefully. But there’s also a significant number of challenges and particularly it’s a challenge of bringing technology and networking platforms and data centers and indeed whole concepts that were originally expected to do something different and changing those to actually deliver cloud services,”  commented Walker.

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