Public Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Services
Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance. On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI device and store their data locally, with snapshots being stored in the Amazon S3 cloud-storage environment.
This announcement coincides with ...
Mozy has announced the public beta of its new Stash offering. The public beta is available to existing Mozy Backup customers, as an add-on capability that takes advantage of customers' existing accounts, subscribed storage capacity, etc. In other words, it’s a great example of the convergence between backup-as-a-service (BaaS) and ...
I love this data, which comes from ESG’s 2012 IT spending intentions survey (we’ve been doing this for years, so we have some excellent tracking data). This survey covers North America, Western Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
In 2009, people were 3X more likely to cancel an IT project, ...
Companies are desperate for knowledge when it comes to cloud. Executives want it and IT frankly is struggling with the best way to go about it or whether it even makes sense to adopt it. On the consumer side, I find myself moving more and more to the cloud. Music, ...
Anyone with an IT career is always keeping a watchful eye on the hottest technology and looking for ways to enroll in training and advance their career. I did this successfully years ago with Microsoft certification and have witnessed many IT professionals build a stable career by growing their knowledge ...
Published on Monday, December 19th, 2011 at 2:14 pm | 2 Comments »
Authors: Kristine Kao | Terri McClure |
Enabling Workforce Mobility and Productivity
The trend toward “consumerization” marches onward in IT; more and more end-users are choosing their own hardware platforms and software applications in lieu of the IT-sanctioned business tools provided by their companies. These end-users are looking to tackle issues like data sharing, portability, and access from ...
Authors: Kristine Kao | Terri McClure |
For about a thousand years telecommunications companies have relied on analog wires connected through the land to dominate and capitalize on humans’ desire to speak to each other. The fact that few rarely have anything worth hearing is not the point.
Since 1940, Telcos have enjoyed massive success.
The ...
Lately, it has occurred to me that Microsoft’s banter about “Three Screens and a Cloud” gets more real every day -- those screens being your smartphone, your computer and your television, as a unified and unifying experience.
As a confessionary disclosure:
My computers run Windows, including my home server
My gaming consoles are ...
I just spoke with an IT executive at a large marketing and advertising firm. He has completely moved his data center to a local colocation facility. He has two cages at the facility. One cage is dedicated to the IBM Mainframe and the other to his x86 ...
In general, markets hype themselves well above their ability to extract actual money. Cloud is no exception, but as it matures, realities begin to take shape.
Petfood.com or Furniture.com didn’t fail because the Internet didn’t work. They failed because they had stupid business models. There are plenty of ...
