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

Stop Talking About Costs

I was at the recent Melbourne launch of Pure Storage, and a single word permeated much of the conversation: cost. It was a central part of their pitch that day. Pure were spruiking their gear as being at cost-parity with spinning disk for “effective storage”, meaning after their special-sauce software… Read More

TFD9 Review: Veeam

Veeam showed us their Backup and Replication product, Version 7. Now, Veeam is a virtualisation centric company. They deal with multiple hypervisors, but they don’t deal with physical. Veeam knows this, and does this deliberately. Doug Hazelman made this clear in his presentation. So what’s to like about Veeam? Quite… Read More