Over the last month or so I’ve been building a new blog site for my virtualisation discussions. If you are reading this post, then congratulations! You’ve found my site. I already write on storage at www.thestoragearchitect.com but I wanted to segment out the virtualisation part of my work and set some clear boundaries between some [...]
At the beginning of this year, VMware announced they were to acquire Zimbra, a provider of email and collaboration software, from Yahoo. Although the move was widely reported, it wasn’t on the face of it the most strategic of VMware’s moves. The acquisition does provide VMware with more access into the [...]
This is a guest post from Patrick Jobin at StoragePipe Solutions, a provider of world-class corporate data protection solutions including online backup and recovery, electronic archiving and business continuity.
Despite its mainstream acceptance, Software-as-a-Service is still a very new field. And when it comes to data protection in the cloud, there [...]
Chris Mellor at The Register picked up on the announcement from EMC on June 29th that the Atmos Online service is being withdrawn from production service and will return to a development platform. In the future, Atmos Online will only be available from partners, however the other flavours of Atmos (virtual [...]
I finally managed to attend a London CloudCamp last Thursday, which conveniently co-incided with a #storagebeers evening. For two hours of listening to the collective wisdom of the presenters and the “unpanel” we were offered free beer and food. Now free beer is good, however I’m not sure it’s good enough to make me want [...]
A report published today by OFGEM, the UK’s energy regulator makes bleak reading for the future of electricity supply in this country. The BBC discusses it here.
The report highlights £200bn of under-investment and the risk of power cuts over the next decade. It’s a damning statement on the deregulation of the [...]
This post is a guest posting from Jerry Huang from Gladinet and discusses the differences between Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure and the Amazon S3 platform.
This month, Microsoft transitioned Windows Azure Platform from public preview mode to full production mode. Azure Storage is part of the Azure Platform and competes directly with Amazon S3. It [...]
Day 2 of the Tech Field Day kicked off with a trip to Ocarina Networks. For those who don’t know (a) Ocarina offer a “data reduction” appliance (b) an ocarina is a small oval, china flute. I say data reduction as the Ocarina appliance uses a variety of methods for reducing [...]
Finally all the speculation is put to rest as VMware, Cisco and EMC announce their joint venture: Acadia. The “coalition” of the three companies will work together to deliver private cloud infrastructure which utilises Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere and EMC storage hardware. All of this [...]
Yesterday Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) used SNW USA to release information on their proposed cloud strategy, referred to as “Agile Cloud”. Everyone believes they need a cloud story and clearly Hitachi are no different.
Taken from the presentation I was given last week, is the following picture. This pretty much sums up [...]
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