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Study Group: Content Delivery Services Experts

Council Members in this Study Group: 75

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on topics such as IT Services, consumer electronics, wireless devices, software, hardware, information technology, semiconductors, media, cable, satellite, internet, broadband, global positioning systems, advertising, online media, telecommunications, networking, wireless, and data storage, among others.

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Michael Horsch Fizz, Senior Advisor, FCI Inc.Michael Horsch Fizz

Senior Advisor
FCI Inc.
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Michael Horsch Fizz is a Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. Mr. Fizz specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology...

Izak Mutlu

Vice President- Information and Product Security
SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
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Izak Mutlu, CISM, is the Vice President of Information and Product Security at Salesforce.com, a company specializing in customer relationship management software. He is responsible for managing IT security, architecture, design, implementation, and operations....

Kevin Lee, Chairman & CEO, Did-it.comKevin Lee

Chairman & CEO
Did-it.com
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Kevin Lee is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Didit, a search engine services company; and a founding board member of SEMPO. He specializes in search engine marketing strategy. Didit buys $150 million in search advertising per year for clients such...

Ralph Behar

Senior Director IT
OSI SYSTEMS, INC.
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Ralph Behar is the Sr. Director IT of OSI Systems, Inc, a vertically integrated, worldwide provider of security and inspection systems, medical monitoring and anesthesia systems, and optoelectronic devices and value-added subsystems. He is an acknowledged...

Dan Rayburn, Principal Analyst, FROST & SULLIVAN, INCDan Rayburn

Principal Analyst
FROST & SULLIVAN, INC
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Dan Rayburn is Principal and Executive Vice President for StreamingMedia.com and is recognized by many as the voice for the streaming and online video industry. He is also Principal Analyst with Frost & Sullivan working in their Digital Media group. Dan...

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Cisco's advantages and challenges. Comparisons to Juniper, ProCurve, Brocade.

August 5, 2009

Cisco’s Sales Will Drop as Much as 17%, Chambers Says | www.bloomberg.com

Cisco's strengths and challenges for their first fiscal quarter and beyond can be further defined when we compare them to their competition.  Juniper, HP ProCurve, Avaya, Brocade (Foundry), Nortel, 3COM are vendors that can help us define and understand Cisco. Cisco's success may very well be due to the weakness of their competition versus the strengths of Cisco.  In addition, with $30 plus billion of cash they are better positioned than most.

Carriers running scared of Google (voice)

July 28, 2009

Apple Silences Google Voice On the iPhone | theappleblog.com

Carriers are running scared of Google entering their market with Google Voice. They are trying to block the Google Voice app for the iPhone but they don't seem to bother with the Android phones or the blackberries. Why is this?

Misleading Equinix (Data Center) Statistics

July 28, 2009

Upward Trend in Colo Revenue: Equinix Making $200 More Per Cabinet | www.datacenterknowledge.com

Revenue growth at Equinix and in the data center business is strong, but are you sure it's not just increasing power and cooling consumption? How do you know?

As the Twitter security breach and Sarah Palin's email account show: passwords are evil!

July 16, 2009

Lessons from Twitter's security breach | news.cnet.com

Passwords are evil: they are either easy to guess or the password recovery service allows the hacker easy access, as was shown by the Twitter "security breach" and the break-in into Sarah Palin's yahoo email address. But there are companies out there solving this problem, one of them is a stealth start-up called FortKnock.

Why has Yahoo allowed themselves to become the RC Cola of search?

July 16, 2009

Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me | www.nytimes.com

Companies providing only Internet search do not have a long lifespan. Microsoft's main interest in acquiring Yahoo was not their Internet search technology but rather to use them in their fight against Google.

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Members in this Study Group include these company types:

  • Individual/Small Consultancy
  • Managed Service Provider
  • Systems Integrator (SI)
  • Internet Portal
  • Market Research Company*

Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:

  • Consultant
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Principal
  • Director
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • IT Director