Archive for April, 2011
I saw a tweet this week from @davidchapa saying “I wonder if the cloud can hold all the blogs written about it this week… .” I am beginning to think we might be stretching the limits! But some have asked lately why I think Nirvanix has legs ...
"Desktop virtualization is not a one-size-fits-all undertaking. It requires multiple delivery models deployed across many device types to match a variety of user roles and responsibilities," said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "By extending its desktop virtualization portfolio, Quest is now able to deliver a broader range of ...
In my last blog I talked about one of the prime lessons (or confirmed suspicions, depending where you start from…) from ESG’s recent ‘Ahead of the Curve’ event being that people and processes are an enormously important gating factor for the relative success of advanced IT projects. At the event ...
Amazon Web Services’ worst outage ever was mainly due a problem in its EBS infrastructure (more details here).
EBS is the block storage solution inside AWS and is required if you want to manage random I/O data.
Prior to this outrageous downtime incident, EBS was not well regarded by AWS users. It ...
It seems the whole world is talking about Fusion-io with the same reverence as it did Data Domain--and we all know how well that one ended up.
So why do I have the audacity to question what to many is a fait accompli already? Because I've seen this play before, Mrs. ...
Last week, I hosted a session at ESG's Ahead of the Curve user event. The session was focused on management and IT operations in a virtualized environment and the content was framed around ESG's research report, The Evolution of Server Virtualization. ESG actually constructed a maturity model based on the ...
Amazon has been the leading provider of cloud computing infrastructure over the last 3 years and companies of all sizes have been using it.
Startups bet their lives on the system.
Today, the company had its worst downtime ever. Over 10 hours in the main region, North Virginia.
High volume sites like Quora, ...
Earlier this week, I blogged on the results of a polling question I asked a roomful of networking professionals at the ESG “Ahead of the Curve” event last week in Boston. Here’s another.
Question: “With respect to server virtualization, which of the following is your organization’s biggest technical ...
The industry has been abuzz with the latest news around cloud–the exit of one notable, the unwinding of a cloud startup, and the struggles of others. First someone let it slip (or was it on purpose?) that Iron Mountain would be exiting the cloud storage business. This was ...
Wasn’t cloud supposed to make it not matter whose technology was running the service? I make it a point these days to have this conversation with every service provider, vendor, and solution provider I sit down with. I ask everyone the same basic question: “Does it matter to ...
