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April 17, 2007
Jon Arnold / Craig Betts - Solace Systems and Intelligent Content Routing
On this week's podcast, Jon spoke with Craig Betts of Ottawa-based Solace Systems. Craig is the founder, as well as CEO and President, and his company has a leading focus on an emerging network solution - intelligent content routing. Craig framed the discussion by explaining what this term means, and why it's becoming important - not just for service providers, but for enterprises as well as companies that are in the business of regularly pushing content out to communities of interest.
Good examples would be a news service like Reuters, or a financial information service like Bloomberg. Their subscribers depend on timely, accurate and relevant content on a continual basis. Craig talked about the challenges of doing this in existing networks and how solutions like his can not only deliver content more efficiently, but can also enable the creation of new content streams, and hence new revenue sources. For now, the focus is mainly on data content, but multimedia is coming, which will only increase the need for intelligent content routing.
Craig Betts - President and CEO, Solace Systems
Mr. Betts founded Solace Systems with the vision of embedding application intelligence directly into networks. Specifically, Mr. Betts observed that hardening content infrastructure into lightning fast hardware would enable data and content service providers to offer highly scalable new revenue generating services and improve distributed communications for large enterprises. Mr. Betts works closely with all aspects of the business and maintains strategic relationships with customer executives to assure successful product deployments.
Prior to Solace Systems, Mr. Betts was CEO of Waterfall Networks, a developer of Web conferencing equipment, Vice President, Technology at In-Touch Survey Systems and a Project Executive at IMRglobal (acquired by CGI Group). Mr. Betts holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Queen's University.
Posted at April 17, 2007 10:43 AM
