Elazon™ the world’s only Electronic Message Response and Remediation System, mitigates all forms of unwanted electronic messages and behavioral advertising and facilitates good computing for both consumers and businesses. Elazon™ reduces the profitability of sending unwanted electronic messages and placing hidden malicious code used as behavioral links. Based on current consumer preferences, the system could easily overwhelm the marketing ecosystem with automatic responses to unwanted messages.
Each individual user controls which messages they respond to, how they respond to them and when they respond to them. User response is in aggregate and in direct proportion to how many messages and or links have been received.
Everyday electronic marketers and behavioral advertisers send out billions of unwanted messages in the form of email, instant messages, and web hyper links that are at best ignored or captured in spam filters. At worst, these unwanted messages cause incalculable social and financial harm – this is about to change.
For a more detailed explanation of how this works, www.elazon.com/why_elazon.html

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SYS-CON Events announced today that The Wall Street Technology Association has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) provides financial industry technology professionals, vendors, service providers, and consultants with forums to learn from and connect with each other. The WSTA facilitates seminars and networking events where members meet and exchange ideas and best practices that assist them in effectively capitalizing on technology advances and dealing with financial industry business challenges. Founded in 1967, the WSTA is a not-for-profit association with a long history of evolving to meet the needs of its members.

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As an increasingly mobile and decentralized workforce gains access to a variety of communications options, organizations are ready to adopt unified communications. With its reduction in communications costs and significant improvements in overall employee mobility, flexibility, efficiency and productivity, unified communications are transforming the way we work and communicate. But decision makers need assurance that the solution they implement today is one they can build on for the future. The best way they can ensure a future proof solution is to adopt cloud-based unified communications.
However, since technologies and service delivery rapidly evolving, not all cloud-based unified communications solutions are equal.

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After cutting its annual worldwide IT spending forecast back last quarter, Gartner tickled it again this quarter.
It pegs the “lackluster” number at $3.6 trillion, up 3% over last year’s $3.5 trillion, a half a percent better than it thought three months ago.
Despite the eurozone crisis, the weak US recovery and the slowdown in China, it figures the “outlook has at least stabilized” but warns that “there has been little change in either business confidence or consumer sentiment in the past quarter, so the short-term outlook is for continued caution in IT spending.”
Cloud spending, however, looks modestly fluffier

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Tabor Communications has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Tabor Communications, Inc. is a leading international media, advertising, and communications company that provides solutions, news and information to the High Performance Computing (HPC), cloud, data-intensive and digital manufacturing communities. Publisher of HPCwire, and HPC in the Cloud, Datanami, and Digital Manufacturing Report, other Tabor Communications companies include Tabor Advertising and Tabor Publications & Events.

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When I sat down to write this post, I did some prep reading to see what the bloggers I follow were saying on the topic. But by the third post, I was reminded that we (the tech nerds) are not generally helpful. Tech nerds talk and write in our own language. We write to look […]

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Cisco has been forced to apologise for what Home Networking Vice President Brett Wingo described as “confusion and inconvenience” following the rolling out of their Connect Cloud system.

The issue concerns a cloud-based update Cisco made to their Linksys EA2700, EA3500 and EA4500 firmware which had originally been rolled out automatically to users’ routers.

The update took many users by surprise, and they weren’t best pleased about it either, with complaints ranging from security concerns on cloud-based LAN administration to privacy fears.

Cisco has since released instructions on how to roll back the automatically updated firmware to the previous iteration.

In a blog post, Wingo said that the Connect Cloud service was available to those who had opted in to automatic updates and that data was not being illicitly stored “consistent with Cisco’s practices”.

Perhaps worryingly, the privacy concerns related to the original Cisco Connect Cloud terms of …

Need to scale your data tier? The foundation of every application is the database layer, and today application architects have more choices than ever. With these choices come new questions: Which database technology is best for your application? How can your application take advantage of Big Data technology? Can you run your relational database at Big Data scale? What does it take to implement a comprehensive data infrastructure, including your core database, incorporating SQL, No SQL and Big Data platforms?
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Cory Isaacson, CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, will answer these questions and more. You will learn exactly what it takes to scale your data tier, and how to keep it reliable – despite the challenges presented in Cloud environments. He will also provide a quick review of the primary types of database platforms, enabling you to choose the best technology for your application challenges. He will close with a high volume social application/gaming case study, showing you exactly what it takes to run a high-volume, multi-terabyte database infrastructure in the cloud.

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Velocity 2012 Last week I was honored to be invited to the infamous Velocity 2012 conference in Santa Clara California, hosted by O’Reilly. Monitis was one of the silver sponsors. It was a great opportunity for me to meet the wonderful team I’ve been working with for the last year.

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