If you had an extra $29 billon dollars just sitting around in the bank, what would you do? I wouldn’t buy Pure Digtial that’s for sure. Cisco has now bought Pure Digital for $590 million dollars. Not a bad price at all for a 2 year old crapsumer video camera company.
Pure Digital the popular Flip Video cameras. You can find them just about anywhere. Matter of fact, I actually own one of their cameras. It’s easy to use and the video is produces is ok. My 9 year old daughter takes the camera with her everywhere. She was the big hit on one of her field trips.
I’m all for stimulating the economy, but WTF Cisco? You just announced last week you are getting into the enterprise server market, then you turn around the following week and buy a consumer video camera company. What’s it going to be next week Chucky Cheese?
Besides the obvious choice of throwing networking options inside new models of the Flip camera, how can this acquisition help Cisco? A more logical choice would have been to purchase GoGrid or another up and coming Cloud Computing company. Now that would make sense and you wouldn’t have had to spent $590 million dollars.
I’ve been having battery issues with my iPhone the past couple of weeks. I could not for the life of me figure out what was causing my battery to be drained down to nothing within a few hours.
I’ve got a couple of pages of apps on my iPhone. All of them, for the most part, have been behaving well. I don’t make a lot of calls and I haven’t been listening to lots of music lately, so I narrowed it down to new apps installed with the past few weeks. That narrowed it down to just one app – Twitterrific.
I know sure what Twitterrific is doing, but it’s like the electricial nosferutu for the iPhone. Anyone have any suggestions?
Sun recently announced that they are entering the cloud computing business. They were short on details, but long on creating communities, OS virtualization, API’s, and being a better value than Amazon’s EC2 service.
It remains to see how much traction Sun will gain in the growing cloud computing services market. I’m very satisfied with Amazon’s service. Joyent and GoGrid are also great vendors.
Consultants, small businesses and startups have been quick to latch onto cloud computing. For them, it’s a big win. No data center to maintain, an on-demand scale-out infrastructure and pay for the resources that you actually use.
There are downsides to putting your data in the cloud. At the top of the list is security. Followed closely by data persistence, resource availability, backup and recovery.
A new issue that has cropped up lately is regulatory compliance. All cloud vendors are pretty mum about giving away details of their cloud infrastruce. So it makes it very difficult for large corporate enterprises to assert that what they put out in the cloud is secure and in compliance.
