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The good ol' days
Ah yes the good ol' days, sitting on a couch on a Sunday morning reading the editorial section of the times while drinking a cup of coffee. Nothing quite beat the smell of the newspaper or the black smudge on your hands as the ink rubbed off onto your fingertips.

Why Reliability Is The Buzz Word For Cloud In 2014
Any discussion of cloud adoption primarily boils down to two important concerns – data security and cloud reliability. A study conducted by Tata Consultancy Services sometime back revealed some interesting insights – while customers in Europe and Asia-Pacific saw data security as the most important parameter while picking a cloud vendor, their counterparts in the US and Latin America wanted reliability more than security.

For the last few weeks, an interesting and timely debate has been brewing among the technology press and various technology vendors and users about whether or not platform as a service, or PaaS, will survive as an independent cloud computing service category.

When was the last time you used a payphone?
Seems like a slightly ridiculous question right? Personally, I can't remember the last time I touched a payphone, yet when you walk down the streets of Boston or New York there they are. There are around  500,00 of these public servants in the U.S., each one patiently waiting for a needy passerby to deposit their spare change for a quick call.

Within the next four years, 76 percent of the traffic through the world’s data centers will be cloud-based traffic. Increasingly, this traffic will consist of public cloud services, as more enterprises become more comfortable with this model. Software as a Service will also dominate.

Ever since Facebook acquired the rapidly growing Oculus Rift, it seems like virtual reality has not stopped gaining attention in the tech world. Virtual reality is becoming more than just a sci-fi special effect as the quality and wearability continue to improve.

Advances in technology and consumer behavior are driving a transformation in the way video content is delivered to consumers. The change involves a migration away from traditional broadcasting models and platforms towards digital distribution over the Internet to a widening array of connected devices.

I ride a motorcycle.  I ride it to work, I tool around on back roads every opportunity I have, do the occasional weekend trip and a cross country ride is on my bucket list.  Before I ride I always do a pre-ride check to make sure there are no issues with the bike and I ALWAYS ride defensively.

Question: What if my Internet connection goes down for an extended period of time?
Our Answer: While this is a valid concern, TOSS C3 offers a service called WAN-UP™ which takes two or more wired and or wireless internet services from different providers and connects them to the supplied 24/7 managed appliance.

Back in the 80's or 90's you may have seen one of these rare creatures in wild, an ordinary telephone mounted on the center console of a car. Back then these car phones were very expensive and seen as a luxurious high end piece of technology. It seems strange to say that now since we all carry around mini computers in our pockets with our smart phones, but 25 years ago this was the tool of the rich and famous.