Good And Bad Virtual Office Setup

When someone sets up a virtual office, they want people to use it. The setup allows the users to maintain a professional appearance and space without all of the problems that go with owning a brick and mortar building.  However, when someone goes down this path, he needs to tell the difference between a good and bad virtual office.

A bad professional office will be disorganized. There will be no full time staff, and  there will be a lack of structure. Even though the company may not have a physical presence, the employees still need to know where they are in the chain of command, and to whom they report.

If the owner of the business continues to choose an unprofessional structure, there will be no full time staff.  They will also do everything without the use of key software or a cloud computing structure. (Cloud computing allows a wide area network to operate as though it were a local area network.)

Now, someone may wonder what makes a good virtual office. Anyone who read the proceeding paragraph may realize that a professional will do the opposite of the actions that describe the unprofessional office in the above paragraph.

A professional staff is a much, cloud computing is essential unless someone has their own server. If someone is a small business owner that is just starting out in a field that will benefit from the virtual office, a brick and mortar location may be out of the question.

The key to all of it, if the proprietor can manage it, is to run a professional organization.  Monetary concerns may force a person to cut costs in some areas, but the wise person knows when and how to do it. As always, there are some things it does not pay to try to do cheaply.

Lenovo Smartphones Are Now Using Qualcomm

Lenovo's association with Intel seems to be hitting the bottom level as the latter has powered its new smartphone with a chip from the house of Qualcomm.

It seems that Lenovo want to change the popular perception that doesn't associate it with the Android smartphone market. The recently launched Vibe Z K910 in China speaks in itself about the fact that the company has decided to make its name counted among the big players in the smartphone industry. The key feature of this new version of Lenovo smartphone is that it can compete well with all the major smartphones currently available.

This new in line Vibe Z K910 phone from the K-series Smartphones launched by Lenovo supports the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 just like other smartphones unless there the mobile company has something else to offer to the user like the iPhone 5s or the Motorola MotoX is doing.

When it comes to the technical specifications part of Lenovo smarphones using Qualcomm, its system on chip has to offer clock speeds upto 2.2 GHz. Added to this is the 330 graphics Adreno chip from the house of Qualcomm and a two GB RAM which makes the device a powerhouse in itself. Its decent 34,000 score on AnTuTu is a testimony to the fact that the smartphone is going to go a long way and give a good competition to other devices in the market.

The 1080p display on a 5.5 inch screen coupled with a 1080x1920 resolution, leaves no room for error that the device can be rightly called a phablet. You will find the body quite slim with a 6.9 mm body. When it comes to taking those perfect clicks, the Lenovo smartphone is all geared up with a 5 megapixel front camera and a 13 megapixel rear one. The internal storage of this latest smartphone from the K series will be around 16 GB.

Although there isn't much information about the pricing of this smartphone but it will surely be launched in China. What would be interesting to note is whether Lenovo will expand its boundaries to United States to compete with the biggest Android Smartphone manufacturers of the industry.

What To Know About Verizon's Cloud...

Recently, at the Interop conference in New York, Verizon outlined their plans for their new cloud services. Here's what to know about new Verizon cloud. These new services will combine the standards of the cloud services offered by Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Verizon will provide a new infrastructure service option, named Verizon Cloud Compute. Also, they are providing Verizon Cloud Storage, which is a new storage service option. These services will offer several forms of Windows Server 2008, Linux, a variation of BSD and Windows Server 2012. Also, OSes can be uploaded by users. The storage service uses an interface based on object storage.

Verizon is adopting a variation of the Xen open source hypervisor, which enables virtual machines modeled on other kinds of hypervisor to run the company's offering in. For example, VMware virtual machines can operate on Verizon's cloud. Additional hypervisors, namely KVM (which is open source) and Microsoft's Hyper V will be supported eventually.

CloudSwitch is providing the multi hypervisor technology. CloudSwitch was founded by John Considine and purchased by Verizon in 2011. With this technology, a more fluid pricing system is being incorporated by Verizon, compared to the pricing used on other services.

Verizon are not just selling pre packaged large, small or medium sized virtual machines. Instead, customers can decide what quantity of storage, memory and computing capacity is required. For example, customers can acquire a virtual machine with 1 GHz, 2 GHz or 500 MHz of CPU power, along with anything from 1 GB to 8 GB of memory.

Also, according to Considine, the company will provide "reserved performance". This is meant to guarantee levels of performance. For example, a 500 M bps or 100 M bps network throughput could be guaranteed for every virtual machine. Storage can be assured up to the quantity of InputOutput Operations (IOPs) per second --- 1,000 IOPs or 100 IOPs.

Verizon is a telecoms carrier that has its' own worldwide IP network. Consequently, it is able to offer methods of changing Level 2 networks that are distinct from other cloud suppliers. Moreover, it enables customers to use multicasting and broadcast.

For this service, Verizon will use the data facilities it acquired when it bought hosting supplier Terremark during 2011. Also, it will use its' own data facilities alongside this. These facilities will be situated in Santa Clara (Calif), Culpepper (Va), Miami, Denver, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo (Brazil) and London. In 2014, data facilities will be set up in Asia. These services will be provided in public beta format by the close of 2013. However, the complete pricing list has not yet been revealed.

Considine refused to say any more about the degree to which government agencies, like the US National Security Agency, may be able to access and collect the data from Verizon's data facilities. In light of the leaks from former NSA employee Edward Snowden, it's obvious that the NSA have access to Verizon's telephone records. Nonetheless, Considine emphasized that encryption maintenance is essential to correctly secure classified data within the cloud.

Verizon will still support its' more dated Enterprise Cloud service for an unspecified time period. Undoubtedly though, the new architecture is the future. Now that the new cloud services from Verizon offer bespoke pricing options, several of its' competitors might opt to follow suit with their own particular services.