Alright, I am a HUGE Starbucks fan… YES, I am the Mayor of like 5 Starbucks on Foursquare and I go there often. Today at Wired’s Business Conference in New York City, Starbucks’ own Howard Schultz announced (over Twitter) that the they will be partnering
with Yahoo to offer free Wifi to all customers beginning July 1.
Thank you TechCrunch for the Photo
French hosting company ViFiB wants to place its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access. By distributing these servers across all of France and the World, ViFiB hopes to avoid creating the single point of failure that a data center might become during a major power outage. ViFiB believe that it is possible to build an online service with five-nines (99.999 percent) availability, even though individual servers may only be available 99 percent of the time, according to ViFiB co-founder Jean-Paul Smets.
To do this ViFiB’s customers will have to have their own redundancy and security on top of the servers it provides. ViFiB says that it will provide advice on how to do this.
ViFiB will rent out a virtual machine with 1GB of RAM and 10GB of solid-state disk (SSD) storage space, running on one core of an 8-core Intel i7 860 processor, for around €8 (US$9.70) per month.
The Cloud Leadership Forum will be June 13-15 in Santa Clara, California. The main purpose of the cloud leadership forum will be to examine ways to advance the successful adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud models.
Presenters at the Cloud Leadership Forum include:
* Simon Aspinall, senior director, SP Data Center and Mobility Solutions, Cisco Systems
* Alan Boehme, senior vice president, IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture, ING
* Brian Boruff, global vice president, Emerging Technologies & Strategic Growth Markets, CSC
* Angela Brandt, manager, Security Engineering, Verizon Business Global Services
* CAPTAIN Nicholas V. Buck, served as director, Ground Mission Framework and Services Program, National Reconnaissance Office, US Navy
* Jessica Carroll, managing director, Information Technologies, United States Golf Association
* Dr. Willy Chiu, vice president, IBM Cloud Labs & HiPODS, IBM Software Group
* Erich Clementi, vice president, Strategy and General Manager, Enterprise Initiatives, IBM
* Joe Crawford, executive director, IT Solutions, Verizon Business
* John Gallant, senior vice president and chief content officer, IDG Enterprise, Publishers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld and Network World
* Frank Gens, senior vice president & chief analyst, IDC
* Siki Giunta, vice president, Cloud Computing and Software Services, CSC
* James Harris, managing director, Cloud Computing, Accenture
* Ken Harris, CIO & senior vice president, Shaklee Corp.
* Tim O’Brien, senior director, Platform Strategy Group, Microsoft Corp.
* Domnick Parretta, managing partner, Valorem Consulting Group, LLC
* Mike Pearl, advisory partner, US Cloud Computing Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers
* Thor Geir Ramleth, senior vice president & CIO, Bechtel Group, Inc.
* James Rinaldi, CIO, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
* John Rizzi, vice president, Product Management and Strategy, Tickets.com
* Ricardo Santos, product and offering lad, Infrastructure, Accenture
* Kumud Srinivasan, vice president, IT & General Manager, IT Engineering, Intel Corporation
* Willie M. Tejada, vice president, Application and Site Acceleration, Akamai Technologies
* Jason Waxman, general manager, High Density Computing Data Center Group, Intel Corporation
* David Yen, executive vice president and general manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies, Juniper Networks
