There have been two interesting and contrasting announcements covering cloud storage in the last couple of weeks. The first was NetApp, who have announced “NetApp Private Storage for AWS”. which seems to a proprietary way of replicating data into the AWS cloud. The second comes [...]
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My latest article and podcast are up on searchstorage.co.uk. I discuss the use of cloud storage for archiving. Links are below.
Cloud archiving: A viable alternative to in-house archiving systems (Podcast) Cloud archive: The most mature of the cloud storage services (Article) [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
Continue Reading This Post →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.
Continue Reading This Post →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 [...]
Continue Reading This Post →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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