Archive for the ‘Cloud computing’ Category
Cloud: Cloud Backup /= Cloud Archiving
This is a guest post from Patrick Jobin at StoragePipe Solutions, a provider of world-class corporate data protection solutions including online backup and recovery, electronic archiving and business continuity.
Despite its mainstream acceptance, Software-as-a-Service is still a very new field. And...
July 6th, 2010 | Cloud computing | Read More
Cloud Computing: Cloud /= Virtualisation
I finally managed to attend a London CloudCamp last Thursday, which conveniently co-incided with a #storagebeers evening. For two hours of listening to the collective wisdom of the presenters and the “unpanel” we were offered free beer and food. Now free beer is good, however I’m...
March 15th, 2010 | Cloud computing, Featured | Read More
Cloud Computing: UK Power Cuts: What About Your Data Centre?
A report published today by OFGEM, the UK’s energy regulator makes bleak reading for the future of electricity supply in this country. The BBC discusses it here.
The report highlights £200bn of under-investment and the risk of power cuts over the next decade. It’s a damning statement...
February 3rd, 2010 | Cloud computing, Featured | Read More
Virtualisation: Windows Blob Storage vs Amazon S3
This post is a guest posting from Jerry Huang from Gladinet and discusses the differences between Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure and the Amazon S3 platform.
This month, Microsoft transitioned Windows Azure Platform from public preview mode to full production mode. Azure Storage is part...
January 7th, 2010 | Cloud computing, Featured | Read More
GestaltIT Tech Field Day – Day 2: Ocarina, Nirvanix and Data Robotics
Day 2 of the Tech Field Day kicked off with a trip to Ocarina Networks. For those who don’t know (a) Ocarina offer a “data reduction” appliance (b) an ocarina is a small oval, china flute. I say data reduction as the Ocarina appliance uses a variety of methods for reducing data...
November 16th, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT, Personal Storage | Read More
Enterprise Computing: VMware, Cisco and EMC Join Forces to Create Acadia
Finally all the speculation is put to rest as VMware, Cisco and EMC announce their joint venture: Acadia. The “coalition” of the three companies will work together to deliver private cloud infrastructure which utilises Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere and EMC storage hardware. All of this will...
November 3rd, 2009 | Cloud computing, Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More
Enterprise Computing: Hitachi Enters The Cloud
Yesterday Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) used SNW USA to release information on their proposed cloud strategy, referred to as “Agile Cloud”. Everyone believes they need a cloud story and clearly Hitachi are no different.
Taken from the presentation I was given last week, is the following...
October 14th, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT | Read More
Cloud Computing: Block-Based Storage
A while back, I discussed speculation from EMC around Emulex’s proposed cloud-block storage appliance, E3s (Enterprise Elastic Storage). With my current focus on Cloud Storage, I thought it would be good to delve a bit deeper into some of the aspects of why block-based cloud computing could...
October 8th, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT | Read More
Cloud Computing: Cloud Standardisation
Stephen Foskett has been posting some interesting commentary over the last week relating to cloud standards and today discussed the Zend API for PHP. In previous posts, he’s mentioned the SNIA initiative amongst others. Have a look at this great post he wrote on why standards aren’t...
September 22nd, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT | Read More
Enterprise Computing: When Latency Doesn't Count
A quick exchange tonight on Twitter with Steve Duplessie (@stevedupe) regarding latency and datacentre location got me thinking again about the whole datacentre location issue which I’d mused over some time ago.
It goes like this; given no latency restrictions, where in the world would you...
July 14th, 2009 | Cloud computing, Enterprise Storage | Read More
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New White Papers
September 1, 2010 23:09
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3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry
August 31, 2010 10:08
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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II
August 27, 2010 17:08
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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
August 24, 2010 19:08
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HP Challenges Dell for 3Par
August 23, 2010 12:08
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Hermann: Chris, I think these articles give a good indication what Fujitsu is heading for http://www.bloomberg.com/news/201...
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Chris Evans: Hermann, thanks for bringing that one up. Is there a specific Fujitsu offering or are you just assuming they have the c...
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Hermann: there is another sleeping giant who has all the assets in place. FUJITSU own Servers (PRIMERGY), own storage (ETER...
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Martin G: NetApp are a polyamorous company as is to be expected with the West-Coast roots. Of course if we take 'Virtually Anythin...
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Chris Evans: Martin You're right, I hadn't explicitly mentioned that partnership. I think the VCE (VMware, Cisco, EMC) partnership ...
- BRCD seems to be seeing an uptick today - up 7.6% already - hoping Dell are on the rebound?
- @Storagezilla I didn't think there were any EVA folks any more (natural selection)
- Erm @3parfarley we expect the first SWCSA to be with @hpstorageguy
- @SteveTodd completely! My record was about 5 peas at the same time.
- I have just eaten a bag of wasabi peas and have what I can only describe as gut ache.
- RT @Storagezilla: Time to go around the horn: 3Par at $2.4B Good deal/Bad deal? (Choose one and retweet.) <- good for 3par bad for purchaser
- @SEPATONJay @storagezilla I guess it's a case of "we will offer more money but we want more consequences if we back out"
- @Storagezilla so that implies only the old agreement is still in place?
- @Storagezilla 3Par's statement doesn't make sense. The reseller agreement is part of revised Dell proposal which they said unacceptable
- [shared] Creation was Godless says Hawking: There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe,... http://bbc.in/9PNCUW
