Posts Tagged ‘Cloud computing’

Cloud Computing: Cloud /= Virtualisation

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: Emulex Enterprise Elastic Storage (E3S)

Dave Graham posted an interesting article on his blog yesterday, relating to a new product from Emulex.  Called E3S or Emulex Enterprise Elastic Storage, the appliance (as it appears to be being positioned) allows block-level data to be migrated into the cloud for later access. Now there are a few...
June 19th, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Review: Nirvanix CloudNAS

Nirvanix is one of the companies at the forefront of offering cloud computing services.  Their key products are based around the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN);  data can be stored and retrieved using a number of client applications, one of which is the Nirvanix CloudNAS product.  I’ve...
April 8th, 2009 | Cloud computing | Read More

Cloud Computing: Misunderstanding Data Availability

As is widely reported (here by TechCrunch), Carbonite, an online backup service,  have lost customer data.  Another one of a long line-up of data losses, (whether partial or complete – which has taken some companies down) this demonstrates that relying on someone else to keep your data safe...
March 28th, 2009 | Cloud computing | Read More

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt II

In my previous post I started the discussion on how cloud storage could actually be useful to organisations and not be simply for consumer use. Standards One of the big issues that will arise is the subject of standards. To my knowledge, there is no standard so far which determines how cloud...
December 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt I

Storagezilla was quick to turn a Twitter conversation into a PR opportunity for EMC this week. Have a read. As one of the originators of this conversation, I’d intended to blog on it but was slightly beaten to print. Never mind, I’ve got more content to add to the discussion. The original...
December 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Distributed Computing Nirvana

Last year I blogged about the concept of storage futures (or options – I’d have to go back and check which) which would allow storage charges to be based on a forward pricing model. The logic for this was to penalise those “customers” who don’t bother to take the time and...
July 9th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More