It’s pretty easy to pick holes in the current legacy storage products, especially when it comes to integration within both public and private cloud deployments. However it’s worth discussing exactly what is required when implementing cloud frameworks, as the way in which storage is deployed is radically different from the traditional model of storage operations. [...]
HP have joined the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and released their HP Cloud service in public beta. Here’s the announcement press release. The services on offer are:
Available Now as Public Beta Compute – on-demand server instances. Cloud Object Storage – object-based storage using RESTful APIs. Content Delivery Network – [...]
Like many people, the other week I downloaded and installed Google Drive. This is the long-awaited competitor to services like Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive, offering free online storage with the ability to upgrade to higher capacity at a cost. Dropbox and the various other lookalikes have been around for some time, so is Google coming [...]
Following on from my previous post, I thought I would do a little more work on cloud server performance. First, it’s worth looking at the underlying hardware serving virtual servers in the cloud. As I’ve been using CentOS as the base O/S for my testing, it’s pretty simple to get a summary of [...]
One of the benefits of delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through the cloud is an abstraction from the underlying hardware delivering the service. There’s no requirement to understand what technology is being used to deliver, for example, cloud servers. The specification of a cloud-based server is based on a few simple metrics, CPU, memory [...]
There’s lots of news over the last 24 hours about the release of the latest Kindle device (the Kindle Fire) and yet another browser coming to the marketplace. The Fire will have it’s own browser, named Silk, using the analogy of silk cloth of being made up of many individual threads. Amazon Inc are claiming [...]
Probability says that with an infinite number of monkeys and typewriters given an infinite amount of time, at some stage the monkeys will produce the entire works of Shakespeare. According to this BBC News article, a programmer in the US has tried to do just that, using AWS (Amazon Web Services). He’s [...]
Yesterday’s post generated a few comments that focused on the cost and ease of use of the Chromebook. Now it’s time to put a data management spin onto it.
Today we keep our primary data either directly on our PC/laptop or on a file server. File server can mean many things; a home [...]
I’ve just been watching a discussion on the Google Chromebook on BBC Breakfast. Surprisingly the presenters had some half decent questions to ask Rory Cellan-Jones as he showed them the latest attempt by Google to grab a further hold on the IT market. But what makes Google think this [...]
