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Telecom Expense Management Begins with You | Telecommunications Blog

At GILL Technologies we always emphasize custom solutions for telecom cost audits and expense management. As Ted mentioned earlier this month, we typically submit

Telecom Expense Management for Regular Folks

At GILL Technologies, we handle large telecom expense management accounts from major corporations but our experience includes small departments and local businesses,too – and we all like to save money on our home phone bills.You can still use corporate techniques to rein in cell phone plans and long distance fees, provided you’re willing to do the legwork. Here’s what you do. http://www.gill-technologies.com/TelecommunicationsBlog/telecom-expense-management-for-regular-folks/

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Bursting the Cloud Bubble: 5 Reasons It’s Not Just Hype

With all the hype about cloud computing, it’s easy to label it as the latest fad, especially when everyone whose application talks Internet is trying to rebrand themselves as a cloud. But the long view shows that this really is an important change, one of several major shifts in computing that have taken place over the last 40 years, each of them driven by costs and shortages.

Once upon a time, computing was expensive. As a result, programmers carried their stacks of punched cards into basements late at night, and ran them on the mainframe. The CPU was always busy; humans were cheap.

When computing became cheap, bandwidth and storage remained expensive. The CPU was idle, but the links were full. This gave us the PC and client-server architectures. A wide range of clients on a variety of networking protocols kept things complicated, and WAN prices meant most network traffic was local.

Eventually, we settled on browsers, HTTP and TCP/IP. This was web computing, with a simple, standard edge and a tiered core. Client-side broadband access and persistent storage were relatively cheap. (Don’t believe they’re cheap? Go into an enterprise and you’ll find their networks and storage systems have plenty of extra capacity. The same is true for the Internet — if you ignore the impact of spam and P2P traffic.)

Now here’s the cloud. It’s driven by five big things, none of which are hype, and all of which are changing the way we compute.

  1. Power and cooling are expensive. Today, it costs far more to run computers than it does to buy them in the first place. To save on power, we’re building data centers near dams; for cooling, we’re considering using decommissioned ships. This is about economics and engineering.
  2. Demand is global. Storage itself may be cheap, but data processing at scale is hard to do. With millions of consumers using a service, putting data next to computing is the only way to satisfy them.
  3. Computing is ubiquitous. We’ve lost our desktop affinity. Most of the devices in the world that can access the Internet aren’t desktops; they’re cell phones. Keeping applications and content on a desktop isn’t just old-fashioned — it’s inconvenient.
  4. Applications are built from massive, smart parts. Clouds give developers building blocks they couldn’t build themselves, from storage to authentication to friend feeds to CRM interfaces, letting coders stand on the shoulders of giants.
  5. Clouds let us experiment. By removing the cost of staging an environment, a cloud lets a company try new things faster. This is also true of virtualization in general, but by billing on demand the cloud means anyone can experiment.

This truly is a fundamental change in computing, even if its title has been diluted by marketing agendas. We have to be careful not to throw the innovation baby out with the cloud hype bathwater.

If this story interests you then you should definitely check out our upcoming conference, Structure 08.

Technology-News: GigaOm

Bursting the Cloud Bubble: 5 Reasons It’s Not Just Hype

With all the hype about cloud computing, it???s easy to label it as the latest fad, especially when everyone whose application talks Internet is trying to rebrand themselves as a cloud. But the long view shows that this really is an important change, one of several major shifts in computing that have taken place over the last 40 years, each of them driven by costs and shortages.

Once upon a time, computing was expensive. As a result, programmers carried their stacks of punched cards into basements late at night, and ran them on the mainframe. The CPU was always busy; humans were cheap.

When computing became cheap, bandwidth and storage remained expensive. The CPU was idle, but the links were full. This gave us the PC and client-server architectures. A wide range of clients on a variety of networking protocols kept things complicated, and WAN prices meant most network traffic was local.

Eventually, we settled on browsers, HTTP and TCP/IP. This was web computing, with a simple, standard edge and a tiered core. Client-side broadband access and persistent storage were relatively cheap. (Don’t believe they’re cheap? Go into an enterprise and you???ll find their networks and storage systems have plenty of extra capacity. The same is true for the Internet — if you ignore the impact of spam and P2P traffic.)

Now here???s the cloud. It???s driven by five big things, none of which are hype, and all of which are changing the way we compute.

  1. Power and cooling are expensive. Today, it costs far more to run computers than it does to buy them in the first place. To save on power, we???re building data centers near dams; for cooling, we’re considering using decommissioned ships. This is about economics and engineering.
  2. Demand is global. Storage itself may be cheap, but data processing at scale is hard to do. With millions of consumers using a service, putting data next to computing is the only way to satisfy them.
  3. Computing is ubiquitous. We???ve lost our desktop affinity. Most of the devices in the world that can access the Internet aren???t desktops; they???re cell phones. Keeping applications and content on a desktop isn???t just old-fashioned — it???s inconvenient.
  4. Applications are built from massive, smart parts. Clouds give developers building blocks they couldn???t build themselves, from storage to authentication to friend feeds to CRM interfaces, letting coders stand on the shoulders of giants.
  5. Clouds let us experiment. By removing the cost of staging an environment, a cloud lets a company try new things faster. This is also true of virtualization in general, but by billing on demand the cloud means anyone can experiment.

This truly is a fundamental change in computing, even if its title has been diluted by marketing agendas. We have to be careful not to throw the innovation baby out with the cloud hype bathwater.

If this story interests you then you should definitely check out our upcoming conference, Structure 08.

Technology-News: GigaOm

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Our Communications Management Software is one of the core tools we offer to telecom expense management clients. Let me tell you how we brought a professional cost management tool to the public and why.

User:seodiger: Telecom Auditing and the Spreadsheet of Doom

Telecom Auditing and the Spreadsheet of Doom

Our Communications Management Software is one of the core tools we offer to telecom expense management clients. Let me tell you how we brought a professional cost management tool to the public and why.

Does Multi-Tenancy Matter?

Multi-tenancy basically means that the service provider is supporting several customers with the same resources. (There is some ambiguity about exactly which resources we are talking about - hence the embarrassingly public disagreement between Oracle and one of its reference SaaS users described by Phil Wainewright in Many degrees of multi-tenancy.)

Gianpaolo Carraro makes the point that if I'm a service consumer, I shouldn't care about multi-tenancy - The "multi-tenant" emperor has not clothes, and adds I can't believe we're still talking about this.

With services like laundry, I really shouldn't care if my dirty clothes are put into the same load as everyone else's, as long as the service provider can reliably sort them all out and return them correctly. Some providers may think that the cost savings from multi-tenancy of the washing machine doesn't justify the hassle of labelling and sorting the clothes, but that's surely his problem not mine.

But if I have doubts about his competence and reliability, and if I have to double-check everything (= increased transaction cost) because I feel there is an increased risk of error on his part, then it becomes my problem as well.

Gianpaolo uses the example of a restaurant kitchen. If someone on the next table orders the same dish at the same time, surely I don't care if the chef puts two slices of meat together into the same pan. Well I do care if it means that the chef is tempted to compromise, or pays insufficient attention to my special requirements. As a service consumer, I may have some theory about the likely behaviour and incentives of the service provider (Gianpaolo talks about people wanting to "show off their architectural capacities"). But this only matters to the extent that it affects what I end up with, or when.

SaaS inherits from SOA the principle of encapsulation - the idea of separating the specification (WHAT) from the implementation (HOW). But a lack of trust between service consumer and service provider, as well as possible incentive incompatibility, leads to a breach in encapsulation. For SOA and SaaS to work properly, you need a good line on managing quality and risk. But that's a story for another post.

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How Telecom Audits and Telecom Expense Management Work

Everyone can take simple steps to reduce their personal phone expenses but when it comes to business telecommunications you need expert help. I perform telecom audits according to a procedure GILL Technologies has perfected over years of analysis. Telecom expense management is a multifaceted process, but to give you a look at how we do things in the office I’ll break it down to three primary steps:

User:seodiger: How Telecom Audits and Telecom Expense Management Work

How Telecom Audits and Telecom Expense Management Work

Everyone can take simple steps to reduce their personal phone expenses but when it comes to business telecommunications you need expert help. I perform telecom audits according to a procedure GILL Technologies has perfected over years of analysis. Telecom expense management is a multifaceted process, but to give you a look at how we do things in the office I’ll break it down to three primary steps:

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