Miss USA 2011‎

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Miss Colorado USA Blair Griffith is headed back to the Rocky Mountains without an item coveted by 51 women in Las Vegas over the weekend: The title of Miss USA 2011.

Since 9NEWS first shared her story, Blair Griffith has gotten international media attention. Blair Griffith plans to return home, where she's already working two jobs, and become even more focused on finding a home for herself and her mother.

Even without the title of Miss USA, Blair Griffith continues to inspire, as media from around the world continue to request interviews with her.

"Hopefully, I'm representing Colorado well," she said.

Alyssa Campanella, Miss USA 2011 winner - exclusive interview and details on her 'Tudors' boyfriend

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Posted 06/20/2011 2:43 PM PT by OnTheRedCarpet.com Staff

Alyssa Campanella, who won the 2011 Miss USA pageant on Sunday night, representing California, caught up with OnTheRedCarpet.com in her only one-on-one interview from the evening.

Campanella told OnTheRedCarpet.com. "Then we were like hmm, which network would we want to pitch that for a reality show - four beauty queens driving to New York!"

"I don't like boats," Campanella said. "I'm gonna teleport! Campanella also referred to herself as a history buff and hinted that she would love to star in a TV show following Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots who was executed for treason in 1587.

"I'm obsessed with the Stuart and Tudor era," Campanella said during the pageant. Campanella topped a field of 51 beauty queens to take the title of Miss USA at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Campanella replaces Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih. Campanella later Tweeted about her big win, saying, "I can't believe I won!!!

Chromebooks

It will be good in parts for business users – from SMBs to large enterprises, but could also stumble over some difficult problems. That is the view of James Peel, Product Manager at internet monitoring company, Opsview.

When it comes to managing large numbers of deployed Chromebooks there is a high potential for management problems, particularly because many of the applications and services that businesses use are themselves constructed from other applications, services and utilities already available online. Peel argues:

“ Chromebooks" are inevitably going to increase online traffic so monitoring service utilisation will be crucial. Without it users will not know whether a problem is caused by a network issue, a primary service failure or a service component sourced from a third party on the other side of the globe. Users need a clear picture of what services they are using.”

“ User experience will become far more important with Chromebooks.

The arrival of Chromebooks does open up the question of support for a business tool that is geared to totally online operation. This factor alone could prove to be an issue for larger enterprises. Many of them will not sanction the use of Google for storage – and with Chromebooks that won’t be just the storage of final, completed documents and files but also the intermediate saves that normal working entails. If they are not committing storage to Google they will either have to search very carefully for alternative storage service providers that meet their particular criteria, or get into the world of establishing significant private Cloud storage resources of their own.

Here, the availability of high bandwidth network infrastructure, both wired and WiFi, can open the possibility of Chromebooks becoming the de facto thin client for all staff.

“ I think this could be attractive to businesses.

One Cloud industry sector that could do particularly well from the Chromebooks approach is SaaS. Here we have a group of service providers that are specifically geared to conducting all processing and storage online and under central management control. I think giveaway Chromebook client systems could become a widespread marketing tool in the more common applications areas of SaaS, as well as the larger service aggregators as they develop and grow.

It complements many Cloud-base services extremely well.