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Chromebook – The Balance of Risk and Cost

By On June 23, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Cloud, Opinion, Storage

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 [...]

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Microsoft Q&A Session: IP Expo 2010

By On December 2, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Cloud

Before IP Expo this year, I was invited to a Q&A session with Zane Adam, Microsoft General Manager for Azure.    I’ve not posted any video from the event (yet).  Fortunately Microsoft have saved me the effort and posted a few clips online.  Here’s one video with a few interesting questions.

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VMware Release Zimbra as an Appliance

By On August 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud, Featured, Virtualisation

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 [...]

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Cloud Computing: Cloud /= Virtualisation

By On March 15, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Cloud, Featured

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 [...]

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Cloud Computing: Emulex Enterprise Elastic Storage (E3S)

By On June 19, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Cloud, GestaltIT

Dave Graham posted an interesting article on his blog yesterday, relating to a new product from Emulex.  Called E3S or Emulex Enterprise Elastic Storage, the appliance (as it appears to be being positioned) allows block-level data to be migrated into the cloud for later access.

Now there are a [...]

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Review: Nirvanix CloudNAS

By On April 8, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Cloud

Nirvanix is one of the companies at the forefront of offering cloud computing services.  Their key products are based around the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN);  data can be stored and retrieved using a number of client applications, one of which is the Nirvanix CloudNAS product.  I’ve been reviewing the latest [...]

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Cloud Computing: Misunderstanding Data Availability

By On March 28, 2009 · 11 Comments · In Cloud

As is widely reported (here by TechCrunch), Carbonite, an online backup service,  have lost customer data.  Another one of a long line-up of data losses, (whether partial or complete – which has taken some companies down) this demonstrates that relying on someone else to keep your data [...]

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Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt II

By On December 16, 2008 · 8 Comments · In Uncategorized

In my previous post I started the discussion on how cloud storage could actually be useful to organisations and not be simply for consumer use.

Standards

One of the big issues that will arise is the subject of standards. To my knowledge, there is no standard so far which determines [...]

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Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt I

By On December 15, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Uncategorized

Storagezilla was quick to turn a Twitter conversation into a PR opportunity for EMC this week. Have a read. As one of the originators of this conversation, I’d intended to blog on it but was slightly beaten to print. Never mind, I’ve got more content to add to the discussion.

The original [...]

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Distributed Computing Nirvana

By On July 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

Last year I blogged about the concept of storage futures (or options – I’d have to go back and check which) which would allow storage charges to be based on a forward pricing model. The logic for this was to penalise those “customers” who don’t bother to take the time and plan [...]

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