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HP Discover 2011 – Day 1 Summary

By Chris M Evans On June 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud, Featured, Opinion, Storage

It’s tempting to use hackneyed phrases like “drinking from a firehose” but without a doubt the first day at HP Discover 2011 was loaded with information and news. For bloggers and press, the day started off with a presentation by many of HP’s senior staff, including Dave Donatelli and David Scott. We learned that EVA [...]

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Keeping Mobile Market Share – With Music

By Chris M Evans On May 11, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Cloud, Opinion

Yesterday Google announced Google Music, their competitor platform to the recent Amazon Cloud Player. Both are services that allow you to store and access your music from within the “cloud”; Amazon can transfer music purchases directly in for you, with the Google service you have to upload [...]

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Cloud: Security Experts Required!

By Chris M Evans On April 26, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Cloud

So it appears from today’s announcement that the Sony Playstation Network was hacked after all. Some 70 million users are unable to game online and other services, such as LoveFilm are down. Whilst it has had a positive effect on our household (Call of Duty remains unplayed as Son#1 deems it uninteresting unless playing against [...]

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So Your AWS-based Application is Down? Don’t Blame Amazon

By Chris M Evans On April 22, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Cloud, Featured

After a busy day in London I returned home to read the news of issues in one of Amazon’s US data centre locations causing problems with EC2 and database (RDS) instances. It seems the services of many Internet companies were affected including Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite and FourSquare, Is it [...]

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Updated: Vodafone Blame Outage on Break-in

By Chris M Evans On February 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud, Featured, Opinion

Vodafone (UK mobile phone network) are blaming today’s outage to a large number of their customers on a break-in at their data centre in Basingstoke. There are no specific press releases on their website (this link fails badly) however comments on Twitter indicate tens of thousands of customers may be affected.

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Amazon Web Services – VM Import

By Chris M Evans On December 16, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Cloud, Virtualisation

Amazon have announced the availability of a feature that allows vSphere virtual machines (as VMDKs) to be imported into AWS. Today the feature is restricted to systems running Windows 2008 Server Sp2 but will be expanded in the future. Now this concept sounds great but there’s a major drawback here [...]

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Guest Post: Closing the Server/Storage Virtualisation Gap

By Chris M Evans On November 29, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Cloud, Featured, Storage

This is a guest post from Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO and co-founder of Gluster Inc.

In the virtualization foot race, the server has clearly been playing the role of the hare, with storage—a.k.a., the tortoise—bringing up the rear. The technology innovation in server virtualization got a lengthy headstart on storage and has [...]

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Interview with Simon Hansford of Attenda at IP Expo

By Chris M Evans On October 21, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Cloud, Featured, Virtualisation

This year’s IP Expo at Earls Court in London has a real buzz about it. I dropped in yesterday and managed to get a quick interview with Simon Hansford, founder of Attenda Ltd, a company offering cloud-based application managed services. We’ve seen Simon on many a 3Par promotional video (and one of the [...]

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Bad Analogies and Avoiding Vendor Lock-in

By Chris M Evans On October 14, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Cloud, Featured, Storage

I have to disagree with the premise of Chuck Hollis’ recent post on Kit Cars. If you haven’t read the article (and I urge you to do so), it’s a blatant sell on the benefits of vBlock over “build it yourself” solutions that up until 12 months ago customers (and EMC) were quite [...]

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