Congrats to Plaster Networks for Winning CEPro's BEST Award!

A panel of industry experts, integrators and the editors of CE Pro and Electronic House, has awarded Plaster Networks (www.plasternetworks.com) PLN3 powerline adapters the 2010 Best Award in the home networking category. Criteria included creativity, innovation, incorporated equipment, obstacles overcome, aesthetics, and lifestyle benefits. The selection was announced last week at the custom installer conference CEDIA in Atlanta, Georgia.

Our team at Appoxy congratulates Plaster Networks for the award and wishes them many more successes!

And yes, Plaster Networks is one of our long time clients. We work on their big data in the cloud and remote management capabilities.

cloud (kloud) n.

Had a couple conversations in the last week with smart tech people about what "cloud" means. Thought it was well understood but based on these conversations, it appears not so much. In light of debate, here's a definition that bridges the different interpretations I came across.

cloud (kloud)
n.
1. Web services and applications that operate through the browser and http and are accessed through the Internet. Examples include Salesforce, Google mail and Google docs, Basecamp, and any of the thousands of other applications hosted on the Internet. Also referred to as Software-as-a-Service. Most people not arm-deep in building applications have this definition in mind when they come across the term "cloud".

2. Infrastructure for building and running applications hosted by third party services. Leading providers include Amazon Web Services and Rackspace although IBM, Microsoft, SalesForce and others are quickly rolling out cloud platforms of their own. This type of use is also referred to as Infrastructure-as-a-Service and comes in public and private variations. The base offering is access to virtual servers -- on-demand computing resources that can be accessed and provisioned in minutes. Additional services include load balancing, elastic data storage, distributed content delivery, and other infrastructure capabilities.