Archive for April, 2011
Today Amazon posted a detailed explanation about the recent EBS outage, a timeline, how it happened, actions they took to correct issues, and lessons learned. A number of items stood out for me.
First–it really seems to have come down to operator error–the event was triggered by a network configuration ...
While overall IT spending continues to rebound, companies are still very much focused on controlling both IT capital and operational costs. Consequently, ESG’s 2011 IT spending intentions research shows a slight uptick in spending plans for IT outsourcing with 45% of organizations planning on increasing their outsourcing spending this year. ...
Earlier this week, BMC announced it was acquiring Coradiant to help bolster its end-user experience monitoring capability for the enterprise, cloud, and SaaS. This acquisition is a good fit for BMC and is well aligned with its focus on end-to-end management, especially with more organizations actually spending money on "cloud" ...
Warren Buffett famously said that he doesn’t invest in technology companies, because he doesn’t understand them. Late last year, Berkshire Hathaway pulled its money out of Iron Mountain, a company that had been increasingly ambitious with its digital division in the last few years, particularly in e-discovery. Since then, other ...
In year two of the post-Great Recession environment, “we are in a recovery, but it certainly isn’t a boom,” says Jeff Hine, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Inc., an IT industry analysis and business strategy firm.
ESG’s recently released 2011 IT Spending Intentions Survey reflects the economic recovery. Based ...
Since a cursory glance at the media shows THE Royal Wedding as apparently the most important [media] event since, well ... I don't know ... the last Royal Wedding!? ... I figure that putting the word"'marriage" in my title should get me exposure in all sorts of new outlets before ...
EMC recently announced Avamar 6.0, which includes tighter integration with Data Domain. While the company’s positioning on this move was to transition to a “recovery-centric architecture,” I was struck more by the strategic value the move has for both products and how it helps EMC begin to reconcile its deduplication ...
"Cable and telcos, that's the business model that the cloud fits," said Jeff Hine, analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "They know how to take massive infrastructure and deliver it by the drip."Additionally, adding smaller cloud and hosting providers to their arsenals gives large providers the ability to move both up ...
Jeff Hine, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, agreed. He said one of the many lessons learned from the Amazon cloud outage was that the cloud is not the appropriate place for all applications. It also brought to the surface that the cloud isn't always the best option.
"The takeaway for ...
Rarely can you find a topic that invokes more hatred in IT than licensing policies.
I’m no expert in this area so this is just what I took out of a few heated conversations. The hatred seems to come in two categories.
First, people hate CONFUSING licensing. This appears to ...
