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    Our servers and storage are so 2005

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 22/09/2010

    » It has often been said that in the world of Enterprise IT, Thailand has world class banks and telecom companies, and Third World everything else. This was painfully evident during a trip to Chiang Mai with a certain big IT vendor who highlighted a couple of their star clients which could at best be described as being state of the art circa 2005.

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    Cisco report highlights security woes

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/09/2010

    » Cisco has launched its 2010 mid-year security report, which has shown a sea change in how businesses use IT resources with borderless networks, while IT departments struggle to provide security while coping with users using their personal phones to access corporate IT resources and cloud computing, which processes data outside the corporate data centre.

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    Censorship versus security

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 18/08/2010

    » Freedom of speech, abuse of power by the government, and the new norms of a democratic society empowered by the Internet were all topics discussed by a wide variety of speakers at a seminar on the third anniversary of the Computer Misuse Act, often known as the Cybercrime law, hosted by the Thai Netizen Network, Media 4 Democracy and the Southeast Asia Press Alliance.

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    Perhaps we can just skip 3G altogether?

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 18/08/2010

    » Should we skip 3G and go straight for 4G? Or do we need to walk before we run and evolve? A couple of years ago, I was all for leapfrogging to 4G. Then, the telcos convinced me that 3G had economies of scale that could not be ignored. But more recently, the technical limitations of 3G are becoming more and more painful as smart phones get smarter and notebooks get more bandwidth-hungry.

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    Fixing the broken ISP model

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 25/08/2010

    » The business model for providing Internet services is broken. Content owners are paying specialist content delivery networks more and more to deliver content which consumers expect for free, leaving the ISP squeezed in the middle with no incentive to invest in more infrastructure to improve quality of service needed for video. That is, until a small British company suddenly found itself in a unique position with the right technology at the right time to fix it.

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    The case of the missing data privacy law

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 25/08/2010

    » The problem with the computer crime law is not the law itself, but the fact that it was designed as a pair of laws and the thrust of criticism levelled at the law today is really a reflection of the missing data privacy law that was drafted alongside it - the yin to the cyber crime law's yang.

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    HP addresses 'breaking point' in IT

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 21/07/2010

    » HP has launched its G7 lineup of servers with an emphasis on delivering on the promises of virtualisation, blades, fibre channels over Ethernet and other much-hyped technologies in an easy to understand, easy to purchase and easy to manage way, united under its Matrix cloud management system.

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    A new vision for networking

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 28/07/2010

    » The explosion in the demands on data centres means that businesses can no longer continue building out data centres as usual and the industry has reached a critical point where a new network topology will usher in greatly enhanced network performance as well as new opportunities to develop software on the new network fabric, according to Juniper, a leader in the networking space.

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    Unclogging the networks

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 04/08/2010

    » While most of today's modern 3G data plans talk of megabytes of data, airtime minutes are still important and telcos need tools to help them see the hidden congestion that is clogging up their networks to provide a better end user experience.

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    Marketing depts ready for change

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 04/08/2010

    » Every marketing department agrees that social media is changing marketing, but few are quite sure what the change will entail. Speaking to journalists in Bangkok, Nick Smith, global managing director for marketing transformation at Accenture, spoke of a survey of 400 CMOs (chief marketing officers), 20 percent of which are in the Asia-Pacific region, and how only 18 percent believe they are ready for change.

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