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- By Ty McCormickTy McCormick is an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Previously he was a freelance correspondent in Egypt, where he wrote about everything from military trials to revolutionary rap music. A 2011 Pulitzer Center grantee, he has written for Newsweek, the New Republic, the International Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. He has also appeared as a commentator on Fox News and American Public Media's Marketplace Tech. He holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, and a master's from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.
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Following Tuesday's attack on the U.S. Consulate in Tripoli that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, a wave of anti-American demonstrations — all apparently touched off by the same U.S.-made film that insults the Prophet Muhammad — has spread across much of the Muslim world. So far, protesters have stormed the U.S. embassies in Cairo, Khartoum, Sanaa, and Tunis. The following is an up-to-the minute account of the demonstrations as they spread (see images of the protests here):
Protesters breached the U.S. Embassy walls in Tunis, breaking windows and setting at least one building on fire. Protests are ongoing and smoke continues to billow from the embassy compound [11:54 am]. An American school is also reportedly on fire.
Al Jazeera reports that more military vehicles are moving into position in Tunis to bring the demonstrations under control [12:55 pm].
Tunisian state television increased the death toll to three and reported that 28 have been injured as clashes continue [1:41 pm].
Riot police have finally driven demonstrators from the U.S. Embassy compound, Reuters reports. Authorities arrested roughly 60 rioters and cordoned off the compound. Clashes are still ongoing, however, in the el-Aouina district across a highway from neighborhood where the embassy is located [4:23 pm].
In Cairo, where protesters overran the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday and tore down the American flag, planned nation-wide protests were cancelled by the Muslim Brotherhood, but demonstrations continue in Tahrir Square and the surrounding area. The AP reports [10:49 am] that security forces fired tear gas at protesters attempting to approach the U.S. Embassy once again. Protests are ongoing [12:04 pm].
Al Jazeera reports that there are two main groups demonsting in Cairo, one protesting peacefully in Tahrir Square and another, more agitated group, sparring with security forces closer to the U.S. Embassy [12: 42 pm].
The Egyptian prime minister and interior minister visited Tahrir Square to express their dismay over the ongoing protests, Al Jazeera reports [1:08 pm].
Ahram Online reports [1:29 pm] that Bedouins, angered by the film, stormed the Multinational Force and Observers' (MFO) compound in the Sinai.
Police arrested at least 90 demonstrators in Cairo today, according to Al Jazeera [2:11 pm].
The demonstrations in Tahrir Square appeared to have quieted somewhat, although crowds continue to mill about and small fires are still burning [3:11 pm].
The AP reports that one protester died from injuries sustained in clashes with security forces today [3:22 pm].
Protesters stormed the German Embassy in Khartoum and set it ablaze [8:32 am] and the British Foreign Office reports that police are confronting protesters outside the British embassy in Khartoum.
Demonstrators stormed the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum and hoisted an Islamic flag. According to Al Jazeera [11:56 am] three people have been killed in ongoing clashes.
Nigerian troops fired live rounds at anti-American demonstrators in Jos, according to Al Jazeera [12:00 pm].
CNN reports [12:23 pm] that around 2,000 demonstrators gathered at a central mosque in Jos. A clash with security forces ensued when the crowd attempted to move toward the city center.
Nigerians also demonstrated and burned American flags in Sokoto, a primarily Muslim city in the country's northwest, the Washington Post reports [1: 09 pm].
The United States deployed a team of Marines to Yemen following the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa yesterday. "Although these security forces are equipped for combat, these movements have been undertaken solely for the purpose of protecting American citizens and property. These security forces will remain in Libya and in Yemen until the security situation becomes such that they are no longer needed," president Obama wrote in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner. (Keeping Congress abrest of military activities is required by the War Powers Resolution.)
The Marines are now on the ground there. Demonstrators who gathered to protest today in Sanaa have since dispersed, according to Al Jazeera [12:07 pm].
The Yemen Post reports that by day's end, four protesters have been killed and 48 others — including 10 police officers — were injured in Sanaa. The rioters destroyed at least 63 cars and damaged several buildings [4: 09 pm].
The AP reports [11:39 am] that demonstrators clashed with the police in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, leaving one person dead and 25 injured. A KFC and an Arby's restaurant were also burned.
Al Jazeera reports that order has been restored in Tripoli and security forces are in control [12:43 pm].
Israel and the Palestinian Territories:
Thousands rallied on Friday in the Gaza Strip and several hundred demonstrated in the Old City in Jerusalem, where they clashed with Israeli police. In a Friday sermon, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya called for the United States to apologize for the anti-Islamic film."The U.S. administration should apologize to the Arab and Islamic nation for this offensive film and bring these criminals to justice," he said [4:35 pm].
The U.S. Embassy issued a warning to Americans in Algeria yesterday after calls for anti-American protests went out over social media websites.
Students demonstrated outside the Swiss Embassy – which represents the United States in Iran – over the U.S.-made film. No violence was reported, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Protests broke out in Afghanistan for the first time Friday in the Nangarhar province with demonstrators "Death to America" and "We condemn the film." The New York Times also reports [12:25 pm] that demonstrators burned president Obama in effigy.
President Obama dispatched a Marine anti-terrorism unit to Tripoli on Wednesday in response to the consular attack in Benghazi. He also moved two warships to the Libyan coast as a precautionary measure.
Libyan authorities said they suspect the Libyan branch of Ansar al-Sharia, a radical Islamist group, of orchestrating Tuesday's attack. They arrested four people in connection with the attack, although those in custody are not suspected of playing a direct role, a top aide to the Libyan prime minister told CNN.
Overnight, U.S. reconnaissance drones flying over Benghazi took heavy fire from militants on the ground. Libyan authorities closed the airspace over Benghazi as a result, Reuters reports.
On Thursday, Reuters reported that roughly 1,000 protestors attempted to march on the U.S. Embassy in Daka, but were blocked by security forces. Today, more than 10,000 people turned out to demonstrate, burning American flags and "Smash the black hands of Jews," the Daily Star reports. Police prevented them from approaching the U.S. Embassy.
White House:
The Washington Post reports [1:06 pm] that the White House asked YouTube to review the anti-Muslim film, which has been blamed for the current protests rolling across much of the Muslim World. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the White House "reached out to YouTube to call the video to their attention and ask them to review whether it violates their terms of use." As of 3:37 pm, however, multiple versions of the film, Innocence of Muslims, could be found on YouTube.
President Obama, in a speech at Andrew's Air Force base in Maryland, vowed again to bring those responsible for the attack in Benghazi to justice and promised to "do everything in our power to protect americans serving overseas" [3:00pm].
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So, whether it's because I have studied Machiavelli or am now a grand--father wise in the world I couldn't say, but I can think of scenarios in which Dominique Strauss-Kahn might be excused (still assuming he is guilty). Many French now think that he has been the victim of a plot, which seems far-fetched and against the evidence. But suppose he were; could that plot not be justified if it removed a very bad man from a situation in which he could do much harm? And, on the contrary, supposing he were a very good man essential to the good of his country, could not another plot have been mounted to cover up his unfortunate moral failing? Working out these possibilities will keep you from feeling too much moral indignation. Not too much of it, but not too little, either.
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Needless to say, it is causing a ruckus.
Christmas is not about Santa, it's about Jesus, not the Jesus as the killer with the shotgun, but come on there's a little humor here, a little tragedy here, observes neighbor Susana Cruz..
Ron's neighbors are annoyed with his display. So much so that they are pounding on city council member's doors to have him disarm un-holy Jesus.
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TWW HD is a business mistake, TP HD would've shifted way more Wii U hardware.
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Bladescorpion posted...R_Hunter posted......What's with the sudden love for TP?
Probably playing on a <22 inch lcd computer monitor. Blow that up on my 50 inch Pioneer Kuro and all the crap textures of TP would become readily apparent again: 1080p can't save that game
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Anything with nicer graphics really. WW is just too cartoony to even bother making it realistic, they knew that.
lol if they made TP hd you'd say there should be a WW hd
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It's not that it's cartoony, it's that they didn't do enough to improve the graphics. Mostly all they did was add a lighting system and throw the textures into a filter. While we can't expect realistic detailing in a game that's supposed to look simple and cartoony, that doesn't mean the same blocky environments/characters are going to fly, especially when graphics (Being in HD) are the main selling point of the game and it's being sold for a staggering $50. This could easily be overlooked if the gameplay was significantly altered but it wasn't, they made a few small changes here or there but it's little more than a 'deluxe version' of the old Gamecube title and, as others have pointed out, most of the flaws from Wind Waker are still very much unaddressed. Just my opinions, of course.
You can still play Twilight Princess on the WiiU.
Windwaker was older and had the disadvantage of being on the low-selling Gamecube.
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Actually, I loved Ocarina of Time back in the day, never owned a Gamecube, and am excited to play Wind Waker in HD whenever I finally buy a Wii U.
I admit at the time the Celda-change was devastating news, but the PS1 was my primary console..I was never going to buy a Gamecube anyway. I was too young (15 in 2001 when I bought my PS2) to really afford more than one console and there was no way I was missing out on games like MGS2, GTAIII, THPS3, FFX, DMC, etc..
Wind Waker HD fits better anyway. The people who have to have realistic-style graphics aren't interested in Wii U or Nintendo to start with. Second, TP is already available on Gamecube and Wii and playable on Wii U.
I agree that a realistic-styled Zelda would sell more consoles, but something like a new game that looks like the Wii U Zelda tech demo...not an SD uprez of a game anyone interested in Zelda already has.
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I'd love a Twilight Princess HD with Gamepad and Wii Remote option. Especially if you could switch on-the-fly (probably have to choose at the start, though... :( ).
But I don't believe that WWHD is a mistake. It's currently got a pretty dedicated sect of Zelda's fanbase, especially now that we're a few games away from it now. So now people are more vocal about the things they like and they have some ideas of how to go back and make it better. This can lead to even more sales with a relatively low input. So it's not a bad idea at all.
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Let's see, TP has been released on two difference consoles and is still playable on the Wii U.
WW was released one time, is out of print, and no longer playable on Wii U. (until now)
I think Nintendo made the right choice here.
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HermeticJustice posted...ITT: I don't like TP and I prefer WWHD, hence Nintendo made a good business decision.
I was making a joke that the only reason TC thinks this is a business mistake is because he likes TP more than WW
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TP is a much better game than TWW.
No it's not. Hence why they remade WW and not TP. You mad?


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Copying pictures becomes a hassle when you no longer have the negative available. The good news is that modern technology makes it possible to get a good, quality copy of your picture, even without the negative. If you need to copy pictures for friends or family members, keep these facts in mind.
Copying Copyrighted Pictures Is Illegal
If the picture was taken by a professional photographer, such as a portrait done at a photo studio, paying someone to make a copy of it is illegal. That image is copyrighted to the original photographer. If you take the image to a photo studio to have it copied, they should deny you your request. If they do not, they are breaking copyright laws.
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The Department of Trade and Industry has urged businessmen from Nordic countries to look at various investment opportunities in the Philippines, stressing the improved business climate in the country.
"The investment climate in the Philippines is exhilarating and very promising. The investment upgrade from Standard and Poor's, Fitch and the Japan Credit Rating Agency has given the country a better external profile, making it more appealing to foreign investors. It affirms that the Philippines is indeed open for business, backed by strong economic growth and government finances, political stability and resilience to external shocks as key drivers," said Trade Undersecretary Ponciano C. Manalo Jr.
Manalo made the pitch during the Nordic Ambassadors' panel discussion on Nordic-Philippine trade and investment opportunities. The luncheon with the Nordic Business Council was an occasion to present the business opportunities between the Philippines and the Nordic countries and to interact with key decision-makers in the government and private sector.
Nordic countries include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic, specifically Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Manalo explained to the delegates the opportunities highlighted in the Investment Priorities Plan (IPP), the list of preferred economic activities that are eligible for incentives.
These include agriculture, agribusiness and fisheries, creative industries and knowledge-based services, hospital and medical services projects, infrastructure including the public private partnership (PPP) projects, motor vehicles, research and development, and shipbuilding.
Two Nordic firms—Tieto and Sonion, according to Manalo–have already chosen the Philippines as their investment locations in Asia.
"I am confident that [Tieto and Sonion] will become an inspiration for other Nordic companies and that they will also experience the business opportunity that the Philippines presents," Manalo said.
Tieto is the largest Nordic information technology (IT) services company providing full life-cycle services for the private and public sectors, while Sonion is a global company involved in developing, manufacturing and marketing microacoustic and micromechanical solutions for customers that manufacture hearing instruments and in-ear earphones.
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Last week, the Department of Budget and Management launched a system through which government agencies can buy supplies online without using cash. It is called "electronic payment system or e-payment." The service is being offered through the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System, or the Philgeps virtual store, with support from the state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines. Buying through the virtual store may be done any time of the day.
"A groundbreaking feat" for the Philippine bureaucracy, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad describes the project. The e-payment system "effectively brings us to the realm of cashless transactions, where procurement activities can be tracked and accounted for very quickly and accurately."
Actually, Republic Act No. 9184, or the Government Procurement Reform Act of 2003, mandates national government agencies and public corporations, financial institutions, state universities and colleges as well as local government units (LGUs) to use Philgeps.
The Philippines is finally joining the movement among governments around the world to adopt cashless payment schemes. The movement got a big global push in September last year with the establishment of Better Than Cash Alliance (BTC). Founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Citi, Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, USAID and Visa Inc., BTC is an "innovative public-private partnership that provides the expertise and resources needed to make the transition from cash to digital payments, which can increase the immediate accountability and tracking of financial flows, resulting in less corruption and theft." The UN Capital Development Fund serves as BTC's secretariat. The Philippines has signed up with the alliance.
BTC highlighted three key benefits of the e-payment system. The first is savings—it lowers the direct and indirect costs associated with physical cash. The second: speed and security as proven in the banking industry. But the most important is transparency. Financial flows—the disbursement of billions of pesos in cash payments for salaries, pensions, social welfare allowances and cash-for-work funds in electronic form—can be tracked in real-time, thus increasing transparency and reducing corruption and theft.
BTC has noted that cash payments to citizens often suffer from "high leakage," which means the intended recipient not receiving the full amount. It cited the case of Afghanistan, where more than 1,200 Afghan national police receive their salaries through the Roshan's M-Paisa service, the country's first mobile money transfer service. When the employees first received their salary through mobile phones, a number of them thought they had received a nearly 30-percent raise, although in reality they were just paid the correct amount for the first time. When they were being paid in cash, 30 percent of their salary was being stolen "from the top."
Abad is right to be optimistic about the online payment facility. "Because every step of the process can now be tracked and monitored, we can begin to close off all avenues for irregularity and, ultimately, establish better accountability across government," the budget secretary explains.
There is so much scope for expanding the coverage of the Philgeps e-payment facility. It can be applied, for instance, to other government services like applications for licenses with the Land Transportation Office or for clearances with the National Bureau of Investigation.
A big boon to the citizenry will be its adoption in the payment of various taxes to the BIR, Customs and LGUs. This is possible as demonstrated by the federal government of the United States, which has been providing the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) as a free service through the US Treasury. Since 1996, millions of businesses, individuals, federal agencies, tax professionals and payroll services have used EFTPS. All federal taxes can be paid through EFTPS, which is available by phone or online 24 hours a day, seven days a week—and a taxpayer can schedule a payment up to 365 days in advance.
Electronic payments and "cashless" transactions should be the norm for all government agencies soonest. Technology has made it possible: All law-abiding and taxpaying citizens should be able to transact with government from the comforts of their homes or offices, without going through the hassle of dealing with the bureaucracy and the unscrupulous elements lurking therein.
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Unexpected coolness at the gym Sunday
Today was one of those days where things sort of fall into place.
I came to the gym (only open for 1-1 lessons on Sunday) and my coach was late. A couple guys I didn't know were hanging around, so I went in to work out.
Coach shows up and I hear him talking to this old timer and big guy about me a bit while I'm working. I can't make out what they are saying, but it's something about that I'm training to be the Super Heavy Masters guy on the gym team.
Turns out the old timer and the big guy are there with the only other fighter working out, a little guy named Mike.
In between rounds I learn that Mike and the big guy are both pro's, who I have never met, and the old timer is Richard. The big guy (Owen maybe?) starts asking me questions about age, height, weight, throw this combo, etc.. and finally comes over with mitts and asks me to work with him in the ring. We did about 4 rounds and I was whipped. Didn't do as well as I normally do, and I realized that all these guys are watching, talking amongst themselves and with my coach and yelling out instructions to me.
The end of the mitts and I'm gassed. I climb out and we all start bull****ting about boxing, and the old timer, Richard, tells me that he used to work with Ezzard Charles (extra cool because we are in Cincinnati) and he has worked with Buster Douglas, and Busters dad, Bill. Next thing I know, the three of us are sitting ringside getting a boxing history seminar from this old timer who was with Ezzard during the Rocky Marciano fight, who met Joe Louis, helped train Douglas for the Tyson fight...
I'm headed out and I have two pro's and this old timer who has been in the sport for nearly 50 yrs giving me a critique on my good and bad habits.
Anyway, pretty awesome surprise in what I thought would be a typical afternoon at the gym. Just thought I'd share it with some people who might appreciate it.
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The next BriefingsDirect IT leadership discussion focuses on how global telecommunications giant AT&T has created advanced cloud services for its business customers. We'll see how AT&T has developed the ability to provide virtual private clouds and other computing capabilities as integrated services at scale.
To learn more about implementing cloud technology to deliver and commercialize an adaptive and reliable cloud services ecosystem, we sat down with Chris Costello, Assistant Vice President of AT&T Cloud Services. The interview was conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Disclosure: VMware is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.]
Here are some excerpts:
Gardner: Why are business cloud services such an important initiative for you?
Costello: AT&T has been in the hosting business for over 15 years, and so it was only a natural extension for us to get into the cloud services business to evolve with customers' changing business demands and technology needs.
We have cloud services in several areas. The first is our AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service. This is a hybrid cloud that allows VMware clients to extend their private clouds into AT&T's network-based cloud using a virtual private network (VPN). And it melds the security and performance of VPN with the economics and flexibility of a public cloud. So the service is optimized for VMware's more than 350,000 clients.CIO, CTO & Developer Resources
If you look at customers who have internal clouds today or private data centers, they like the control, the security, and the leverage that they have, but they really want the best of both worlds. There are certain workloads where they want to burst into a service provider's cloud.
We give them that flexibility, agility, and control, where they can simply point and click, using free downloadable tools from VMware, to instantly turn up workloads into AT&T's cloud.
Another capability that we have in this space is AT&T Platform as a Service. This is targeted primarily to independent software vendors (ISVs), IT leaders, and line-of-business managers. It allows customers to choose from 50 pre-built applications, instantly mobilize those applications, and run them in AT&T's cloud, all without having to write a single line of code.
So we're really starting to get into more of the informal buyers, those line-of-business managers, and IT managers who don't have the budget to build it all themselves, or don't have the budget to buy expensive software licenses for certain application environments.
Examples of some of the applications that we support with our platform as a service (PaaS) are things like salesforce automation, quote and proposal tools, and budget management tools.
Storage space
The third key category of AT&T's Cloud Services is in the storage space. We have our AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service, and this gives customers control over storage, distribution, and retrieval of their data, on the go, using any web-enabled device. In a little bit, I can get into some detail on use cases of how customers are using our cloud services.
This is a very important initiative for AT&T. We're seeing customer demand of all shapes and sizes. We have a sizable business and effort supporting our small- to medium-sized business (SMB) customers, and we have capabilities that we have tailor-developed just to reach those markets.
As an example, in SMB, it's all about the bundle. It's all about simplicity. It's all about on demand. And it's all about pay per use and having a service provider they can trust.
It's all about simplicity. It's all about on demand.
In the enterprise space, you really start getting into detailed discussions around security. You also start getting into discussions with many customers who already have private networking solutions from AT&T that they trust. When you start talking with clients around the fact that they can run a workload, turn up a server in the cloud, behind their firewall, it really resonates with CIOs that we're speaking with in the enterprise space.
Also in enterprises, it's about having a globally consistent experience. So as these customers are reaching new markets, it's all about not having to stand up an additional data center, compute instance, or what have you, and having a very consistent experience, no matter where they do business, anywhere in the world.
New era for women in tech
Gardner: The fact is that a significant majority of CIOs and IT executives are men, and that's been the case for quite some time. But I'm curious, does cloud computing and the accompanying shift towards IT becoming more of a services brokering role change that? Do you think that with the consensus building among businesses and partner groups being more important in that brokering role, this might bring in a new era for women in tech?
Costello: I think it is a new era for women in tech. Specifically to my experience in working at AT&T in technology, this company has really provided me with an opportunity to grow both personally and professionally.
I currently lead our Cloud Office at AT&T and, prior to that, ran AT&T's global managed hosting business across our 38 data centers. I was also lucky enough to be chosen as one of the top women in wireline services.
The key to success of being a woman working in technology is being able to build offers that solve customers' business problem.
What drives me as a woman in technology is that I enjoy the challenge of creating offers that meet customer needs, whether they be in the cloud space, things like driving eCommerce, high performance computing environment, or disaster recovery (DR) solutions.
I love spending time with customers. That's my favorite thing to do. I also like to interact with many partners and vendors that I work with to stay current on trends and technologies. The key to success of being a woman working in technology is being able to build offers that solve customers' business problem, number one.
Number two is being able to then articulate the value of a lot of the complexity around some of these solutions, and package the value in a way that's very simple for customers to understand.
Some of the challenge and also opportunity of the future is that, as technology continues to evolve, it's about reducing complexity for customers and making the service experience seamless. The trend is to deliver more and more finished services, versus complex infrastructure solutions.
I've had the opportunity to interact with many women in leadership, whether they be my peer group, managers that work as a part of my team, and/or mentors that I have within AT&T that are senior leaders within the business.
I also mentor three women at AT&T, whether they be in technology, sales, or an operations role. So I'm starting to see this trend continue to grow.
It enables us to deliver a mobile cloud as well. That helps customers to transform their businesses.
Gardner: You have a lot of customers who are already using your business network services. I imagine there are probably some good cost-efficiencies in moving them to cloud services as well.
Costello: Absolutely. We've embedded cloud capabilities into the AT&T managed network. It enables us to deliver a mobile cloud as well. That helps customers to transform their businesses. We're delivering cloud services in the same manner as voice and data services, intelligently routed across our highly secure, reliable network.
AT&T's cloud is not sitting on top of or attached to our network, but it's fully integrated to provide customers a seamless, highly secure, low-latency, and high-performing experience.
Gardner: Why did you chose VMware and vCloud Datacenter Services as a core to the AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service?
Multiple uses
Costello: AT&T uses VMware in several of our hosting application and cloud solutions today. In the case of AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service, we use that in several ways, both to serve customers in public cloud and hybrid, as well as private cloud solutions.
We've also been using VMware technology for a number of years in AT&T's Synaptic Hosting offer, which is our enterprise-grade utility computing service. We've also been serving customers with server virtualization solutions available in AT&T data centers around the world and also can be extended into customer or third-party locations.
Just to drill down on some of the key differentiators of AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service, it's two-fold.
One is that we integrate with AT&T private networking solutions. Some of the benefits that customers enjoy as a result of that are orchestration of resources, where we'll take the amount of compute storage and networking resources and provide the exact amount of resources at the exact right time to customers on-demand.
Our solutions offer enterprise-grade security. The fact that we've integrated our AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service with private networking solution allows customers to extend their cloud into our network using VPN.
An engineering firm can now perform complex mathematical computations and extend from their private cloud into AT&T's hybrid solution instantaneously, using their native VMware toolset.
Let me touch upon VMware vCloud Datacenter Services for a minute. We think that's another key differentiator for us, in that we can allow clients to seamlessly move workloads to our cloud using native VMware toolsets. Essentially, we're taking technical complexity and interoperability challenges off the table.
With the vCloud Datacenter program that we are part of with VMware, we're letting customers have access to copy and paste workloads and to see all of their virtual machines, whether it be in their own private cloud environment or in a hybrid solution provided by AT&T. Providing that seamless access to view all of their virtual machines and manage those through single interface is key in reducing technical complexity and speeding time to market.
We've been doing business with VMware for a number of years. We also have a utility-computing platform called AT&T Synaptic Hosting. We learned early on, in working with customers' managed utility computing environments, that VMware was the virtualization tool of choice for many of our enterprise customers.
As technologies evolved over time and cloud technologies have become more prevalent, it was absolutely paramount for us to pick a virtualization partner that was going to provide the global scale that we needed to serve our enterprise customers, and to be able to handle the large amount of volume that we receive, given the fact that we have been in the hosting business for over 15 years.
As a natural extension of our Synaptic Hosting relationship with VMware for many years, it only made sense that we joined the VMware vCloud Datacenter program. VMware is baked into our Synaptic Compute as a Service capability. And it really lets customers have a simplified hybrid cloud experience. In five simple steps, customers can move workloads from their private environment into AT&T's cloud environment.
Think that you are the IT manager and you are coming into start your workday. All of a sudden, you hit 85 percent utilization in your environment, but you want to very easily access additional resources from AT&T. You can use the same console that you use to perform your daily job for the data center that you run in-house.
In five clicks, you're viewing your in-house private-cloud resources that are VMware based and your AT&T virtual machines (VMs) running in AT&T's cloud, our Synaptic Compute as a Service capability. That all happens in minutes' time.
Gardner: I should also think that the concepts around the software-defined datacenter and software-defined networking play a part in this. Is that something you are focused on?
If we start with enterprise, the security aspects of the solution had to prove out for the customers that we do business with.
Costello: Software-defined datacenter and software-defined networks are essentially what we're talking about here with some uniqueness that AT&T Labs has built within our networking solutions. We essentially take our edge, our edge routers, and the benefits that are associated with AT&T networking solutions around redundancy, quality of service, etc., and extend that into cloud solutions, so customers can extend their cloud into our network using VPN solutions.
Added efficiency
Previously many customers would have to buy a router and try to pull together a solution on their own. It can be costly and time consuming. There's a whole lot of efficiency that comes with having a service provider being able to manage your compute storage and networking capabilities end to end.
Global scale was also very critical to the customers who we've been talking to. The fact that AT&T has localized and distributed resources through a combination of our 38 data centers around the world, as well as central offices, makes it very attractive to do business with AT&T as a service provider.
Gardner: We've certainly seen a lot of interest in hybrid cloud. Is that one of the more popular use cases?
We see a lot of customers looking for a more efficient way to be able to have business continuity, have the ability to fail over in the event of a disaster
Costello: I speak with a lot of customers who are looking to be able to virtually expand. They have data-center, systems, and application investments and they have global headquarters locations, but they don't want to have to stand up another data center and/or virtually expand and/or ship staff out to other location. So certainly one use case that's very popular with customers is, "I can expand my virtual data-center environment and use AT&T as a service provider to help me to do that."
Another use case that's very popular with our customers is disaster recovery. We see a lot of customers looking for a more efficient way to be able to have business continuity, have the ability to fail over in the event of a disaster, and also get in and test their plans more frequently than they're doing today.
For many of the solutions that are in place today, clients are saying they are expensive and/or they're just not meeting their service-level agreements (SLAs) to their business unit. One of the solutions that we recently put in place for a client is that we put them in two of AT&T's geographically diverse data centers. We wrapped it with AT&T's private-networking capability and then we solutioned our AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service and Storage as a Service.
The customer ended up with a better SLA and a very powerful return on investment (ROI) as well, because they're only paying for the cloud resources when the meter is running. They now have a stable environment so that they can get in and test their plans as often as they'd like to and they're only paying for a very small storage fee in the event that they actually need to invoke in the event of a disaster. So DR plans are very popular.
Another use case that's very popular among our clients is short-term compute. We work with a lot of customers who have massive mathematical calculations and they do a lot of number crunching.
Finally, in the compute space, we're seeing a lot of customers start to hang virtual desktop solutions off of their compute environment. In the past, when I would ask clients about virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), they'd say, "We're looking at it, but we're not sure. It hasn't made the budget list." All of a sudden, it's becoming one of the most highly requested use cases from customers, and AT&T has solutions to cover all those needs.
The fact that we have 38 data centers around the world, a global reach from a networking perspective, and all the foundational cloud capabilities makes a whole lot of sense.
Gardner: Do you think that this will extend to some of the big data and analytics crunching that we've heard about?
Costello: I don't think anyone is in a better position than AT&T to be able to help customers to manage their massive amounts of data, given the fact that a lot of this data has to reside on very strong networking solutions. The fact that we have 38 data centers around the world, a global reach from a networking perspective, and all the foundational cloud capabilities makes a whole lot of sense.
Speaking about this type of a "bursty" use case, we host some of the largest brand name retailers in the world. When you think about it, a lot of these retailers are preparing for the holidays, and their servers are going underutilized much of year. So how attractive is it to be able to look at AT&T, as a service provider, to provide them robust SLAs and a platform that they only have to pay for when they need to utilize it, versus sitting and going very underutilized much of the year?
We also host many online gaming customers. When you think about the gamers that are out there, there is a big land rush when the buzz occurs right before the launch of a new game. We work very proactively with those gaming customers to help them size their networking needs well in advance of a launch. Also we'll monitor it in real time to ensure that those gamers have a very positive experience when that launch does occur.
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According to a leaked draft of proposed revisions to the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, the Office of Management and Budget is seeking to remove the open-government legislation's dedicated funding stream and edit language calling for standardized governmentwide data elements for reporting federal spending.
The proposed revisions are unacceptable to many of the bill's key supporters.
The legislation was designed to require government agencies to publish highly detailed information on grants, contracts and payments as they are made via the USASpending.gov website. The House passed the bill, and a revised version was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.). That measure was approved by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, but it has not seen floor action.
Both the House and Senate versions of the bill would give the Treasury Department authority over USASpending.gov and control of the data standards. Alterations by the Obama administration would move both oversight roles to OMB.
"The administration believes data transparency is a critical element to good government, and we share the goal of advancing transparency and accountability of federal spending," OMB spokesperson Frank Benenati told FCW in an emailed statement. " We will continue to work with Congress and other stakeholders to identify the most effective and efficient use of taxpayer dollars to accomplish this goal." Part of OMB's role in the legislative process is to seek comments from agencies on current bills that affect their operations. According to news reports, agencies are expected to turn in their responses by the end of the week.
Warner said he was unhappy with the proposed changes. "The Obama administration talks a lot about transparency, but these comments reflect a clear attempt to gut the DATA Act. DATA reflects years of bipartisan, bicameral work, and to propose substantial, unproductive changes this late in the game is unacceptable," Warner said in a statement. "We look forward to passing the DATA Act, which had near universal support in its House passage and passed unanimously out of its Senate committee. I will not back down from a bill that holds the government accountable and provides taxpayers the transparency they deserve."
The original legislation appealed to open-government activists because it would establish integrated data standards using machine-readable languages to allow developers to build applications that would monitor federal spending. In a Jan. 29 blog post, the Sunlight Foundation said it would pull support for the bill if it included OMB's changes.
"The White House has never made an official statement on the DATA Act, but the legislation's goals appear to be clearly aligned with the Obama administration's open-government priorities, including the open data executive order," wrote Matthew Rumsey, a Sunlight Foundation policy associate. "The stance taken by OMB in the leaked document does not reflect the administration's stated values, but it does reflect OMB's shoddy history of commitment to quality spending data."
One of the bill's legislative architects, Hudson Hollister, also said he would not support the bill if OMB's revisions are incorporated. Hollister is executive director of the Data Transparency Coalition and helped write the original measure as a staffer for Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
"OMB's revisions to the data standards section of the DATA Act seem designed to ensure that nobody will develop data standards for federal spending, nobody will use them, and nothing will change," Hollister wrote in a blog post.
NOTE: This article was updated on Jan. 29 to incorporate OMB's comments.
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"If you just spent $1,000 to $1,500 on an HDTV, you're not going to want to replace it in the next year or two," he said.
For the past year and a half, Texas Instruments has included 3-D functions in its rear-projection TVs. As more content becomes available, the company decided to bump up the marketing budget for the feature.
By not asking consumers to choose between 2-D and 3-D models at different prices, the company hopes to solve the "chicken and egg" problem that plagued the adoption of HDTVs: Lack of sales of compatible hardware slows creation of content that enables the new feature.
"We're future-proofing the TVs," said Doug Darrow, a Texas Instruments marketing manager.
Samsung has taken a different approach. Its 3-D plasma TV comes with a processor inside that creates 3-D content from existing movies and games. 3-D images are stereoscopic, meaning slightly different versions of the image are delivered to each eye. While video games are typically called 3-D, they're not stereoscopic.
Because the TV simulates 3-D, it doesn't have to wait for movies and games to be created in true stereo vision, a Samsung spokesman said.
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If this is news to you, then you honestly haven't been paying attention.
For roughly the eleventy-gajillionth time, Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge was asked in a WEEI radio interview Thursday whether the team would be willing to bring Pierce back into the fold. For the eleventy gajillionth time, Ainge said yes, absolutely, maybe.
Ainge on possibility of bringing Paul Pierce back: "At the right price, right circumstance."—
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If that sounds like the same basic response Ainge gives to every question about every player, that's because it is. Entering the first full offseason of this rebuilding era, Ainge has said more or less the same thing about impending free agents Avery Bradley, Kris Humphries and Jerryd Bayless: If the price is right, they will be back.
Pierce's potential return to Boston has been an ongoing storyline since he, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry were traded to the Brooklyn Nets last summer. TV play-by-play voice Mike Gorman has said he thinks Pierce would come back. After winning a game with the Nets at TD Garden in March, Pierce was asked whether he would consider returning to the Celtics in a playing or non-playing capacity.
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I heard a little bit about this event tonight. It sounds really good.
Saturday is riding up in the Tahoe National forest, with what sound like great A and B loops.
Sunday is down in the Toiyabe National forest with trails going over Peavine mountain and a catered lunch on the backstretch of the Reno National Air races. Do some riding, stop for a catered lunch and watch the planes race, then finish off the days riding. Great!
Also, both days have an Adventure loop, which I guess includes some small road/twisty pavement stuff and some easy forest dirt roads. And they said that if they get something like 75 riders signed up for the Adventure loops they will make a $10,000 contribution to the Blue Ribbon Coalition! Not a bad donation!
Here is what I just found on the website about the Adventure ride.
route is designed for motorcycles like BMW GS models, Suzuki V-Stroms and Kawasaki KLRs. It visits some of the best scenery in the area including Mt. Rose, Lake Tahoe, historic Truckee, Frenchman Lake and several Sierra meadows. It's designed to be fun rather than physically challenging and there are no stretches of soft sand, steep hills or big rocks. If you want more excitement please ride the Dual Sport course.
The Adventure Ride is about 230 miles long and two short cuts are provided. There are about 100 miles of fairly smooth dirt roads. The full 230 miles will require an early start and steady progress. Note that there are 130 miles after lunch. In the alternative, you may start late, linger around Lake Tahoe and take a short cut in the afternoon.
Dual sport tires designed for 10 percent dirt / 90 percent pavement and pressures of about 25 to 30 psi are recommended. All roads are open to public two way traffic. Expect oncoming vehicles at any time, ride safely and observe speed limits. This is not a race and there are no rewards for taking risks.
Entry fee includes roll charts, GPS tracks, a t-shirt, two breakfasts, two lunches and two dinners! And they are giving away a TL 125 trials bike!
Too bad I'm out of town and will miss the event, but you guys should jump in and fill this thing up. It sounds like a great time.
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