Infrascale Helps SMBs Fight Off The Scourge Of Ransomware
Infrascale has refreshed its brand and is looking to grow its SMB data protection businesss. Read More
Tag: Cloud
TFD10 Prep: Dell
What will the Dell presentation at TFD10 hold? I’m hoping for cloud services and storage updates, and an overview of the integration possibilities. Read More
Resilient Apps Or Hardware? A DevOps Conundrum
Much is being made of DevOps of late, and I’ve been doing a lot of work with clients in this area. What amuses me greatly is how little things have changed in the past several decades. This post by eBay cloud architect Subbu Allamaraju highlights a central struggle of IT: how… Read More
How To Import OVA/OVF Into Ravello
I’m currently taking advantage of the generous vExpert offering from Ravello Systems, wherein we get some free time every month. So far it’s an excellent service, though not without some flaws, but hey, they’re brand new! I may do a more comprehensive writeup on Ravello later on, but if you’re… Read More
Erasure Coding For Fun and Profit
As part of Data Field Day 1, we spoke to a company called HGST. A team from HGST actually invented the hard drive back in the 1950s, not far from their current office in Silicon Valley. They’ve been bought a sold a few times, most recently to Western Digital, and… Read More
Interpreting Cloud Company Strategy
We’ve all seen the AWS numbers now, and hopefully looked at them in a bit more detail than just the headlines. I’ve written about cloud economics before, so let’s revisit things a little. The AWS business is apparently a roughly $6bn-a-year revenue business. That’s all external revenue from customers, not… Read More
AWS Financials Available. So Now What?
Last week we saw Amazon break out their AWS numbers as a separate segment for the first time, so of course, the entire tech press lost their collective minds and wrote reams about it. It’s bigger than we thought! It’s smaller than we thought! They have margin! OMG. I’ve previously… Read More
Panel Audio from HP Discover
During the recent HP Discover conference in Barcelona, I happened to sit in on a couple of excellent panel sessions. I recorded audio from them, which is usually just for my own note-taking reasons, but occasionally something really good happens and is worth sharing. Architecting the Future of HP IT… Read More
Rackspace is Right to Stay Out of the Cloud Price War
Rackspace have responded to the latest escalation of the price war between Google, Amazon, and Microsoft with exactly the right response. In an article at The Register, Rackspace very clearly state that they charge “premium prices for premium service” and explicitly differentiate themselves from “commodity providers of cloud infrastructure”. Rackspace… Read More
The Economics of the Cloud Wars
It looks like the Cloud Wars are well and truly on, with Google announcing major price drops, AWS following suit, and Microsoft joining in with drops in Azure pricing to match those of AWS. It got me to wondering about how this might end up. Google has been in the… Read More