by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 8, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Sad to see them fail. But it was never going to be easy to maintain a highly available cloud at much lower scale than Amazon or Microsoft while also paying account teams to work closely with customers to configure the right solution. In short, all of the costs of an...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 5, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management |
Part of a continuing series on competing with the cloud What is needed to verify cloud service level agreements? Good question. Authors Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble, Gabriela Gheorghe, University of Luxembourg, Gregory Chockler, IBM Research UK, Nuno...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 22, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Enterprise IT wore out its welcome with the glass-house priesthood schtick about 30 years ago. But they were the only game in town, so the rest of the company had to suck it up. But no more. Amazon Web Services – and many other cloud services such as the premium...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage, Disk, Enterprise |
A forecast says PC shipments with disk drives will drop by a third between now and 2017. IBM is pushing the all-flash datacenter. SSD start ups are claiming that flash is really as cheap as disk with much better performance. Is it the beginning of the end for disk...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, May 11, 2013 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
Digital coinage can’t do everything a physical coin can do, but that’s not stopping people from signing up – or going to conferences. There’s one in Silicon Valley next week and the elite StorageMojo analyst crew will be there in force....
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 3, 2013 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Note: This post got so long it needed to be posted in 2 parts. Part 1 is here. And while I promised this 2nd part “tomorrow” the editing took much longer than expected. End note. HP has made the most dramatic bet with their 3PAR-based converged storage...
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