by DavidSpratt | Dec 5, 2013 | ICT
At the beginning of this week John Key appeared to rule out any delay in the Chorus roll out of 69% of the country’s Ultra-Fast Broadband network by 2020.
To date, the telecoms industry has not seen the expected level of uptake for the ultra-fast data networking services that the UFB network enables.
If recent Chorus moves to force government to legislate an increase in the Commerce Commission’s pricing for copper-based services are successful, this will further slow business uptake of these services. This will be detrimental to the wider New Zealand knowledge economy.
Chorus’s pressure on government displays all the worst characteristics of the old, monopolistic Telecom prior to de-regulation. This is unsurprising when you realise that the old guard running Telecom under Teresa Gattung has resurfaced as key members of the management and strategy teams at Chorus.
Despite causing years of declining revenues, tanking profits and plummeting share prices in Telecom, the strategy of milking consumers and NZ business for as long as possible by stalling the arrival products which compete with the old copper network seems to be alive and kicking in Chorus.
To paraphrase Sartre, the more things change in the world of Telecom and Chorus the more they stay the same…
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by DavidSpratt | Jul 18, 2013 | ICT
Increasingly businesses are looking to the web to source IT service and infrastructure alternatives. Nothing indicates this more clearly than Amazon’s change of venue announcement for their annual Web Services conference last month. The company had to move its conference from the originally planned venue to the Aotea Centre in response to an unprecedented 2000+ registrations.
When you put this in the context of Google’s recent tripling of its free storage offer (from 5GB to 15GB) across cloud storage, Gmail and Google+ photos, the plot thickens.
Since Google launched Google Drive last year, it has put competitive pressure on other smaller cloud storage suppliers like DropBox and YouSendIt. This trend is unlikely to reverse.
New ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ offerings from global players like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and RackSpace are challenging the more conventional options of owning storage infrastructure or out-sourcing to New Zealand-based providers. (more…)
by DavidSpratt | Mar 7, 2013 | ICT
This article in the latest issue of Computerworld reflects on how increasing use of smartphones and cloud services is driving mobile data growth. It brings into focus the need to identify how a company’s spending trend is more towards data and mobile data and less on landline, business and tolls calling.
TUMG carefully analyses usage and trends before entering into the process of issuing tenders and RFP’s for mobile, landline and data services.
To read the full article in Computer World, by Divina Paredes, published on 7 March 2013, please click here (link to http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/nz-mobile-data-traffic-to-increase-eight-fold-by-2017). (more…)
by DavidSpratt | Dec 19, 2012 | ICT
David Spratt, ICT analyst from Total Utilities Management Group, reviews 2012 with a mixture of humour, bile and straight up taking the mickey.
Up’s
The tired old voices of vested interest have been drowned out in the rush to take advantage of lowers costs, flexibility and superior availability of cloud services.
When was the last time you heard some conceited individual from vendorland asking you to “define cloud services”? It’s been a while – because they have either been laid off or work for Google now.
- Hosting Cloud Services in New Zealand.
Revera, Gen-i and Datacom take a bow. Hosting Office 365 in New Zealand breaks the back of anti-cloud arguments around sovereignty, ownership and control of applications and data. (more…)
by DavidSpratt | Oct 29, 2012 | ICT
We are delighted to hear that tech giant HP has just confirmed its commitment to cloud computing. It will come as a relief to many of HP’s customers around the globe that the company has finally moved to address their lack of a viable cloud computing offering.
Their Converged Cloud – a ‘technology framework incorporating public and private clouds plus managed hosting’ – is HP’s open-source answer to the market-leading Amazon Web Services cloud. HP has hinted at some major announcements ahead – at December’s HP Discover Event in Germany – and industry whispers are that these will include details of their refined cloud services offer.
Over the past few years, a noticeable lack of communication around their offering in this key area is reflected in HP’s increasingly poor financial and share price performance – the company having recently hit its lowest stock price in a decade. (more…)
