Cloud Storage Infrastructure and Services
Tony Palmer, senior engineer and analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab, said Coraid's value is that it provides a storage system that is easy to manage at a low cost.
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Is cloud computing real? Yes. When you sort through the hype and evaluate collective industry R&D efforts, cloud computing options may arrive sooner than most believe. In fact, smart CIOs are already assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each workload should run—locally or in the ...
Business executives want to know their company has a cloud strategy and they want the assurance that IT is executing against its goals and objectives. This, in turn, is putting added pressure to IT operations, application owners, and developers. Will the cloud deliver on its promises? Will businesses take the ...
Yesterday a bunch of smart people from industry got together with some others from the good, old U.S. Government to try to explain this here “Cloud” thing.
The list of presenters included:
Mr. Scott Charney
Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing
Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Daniel Burton
Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy
Salesforce.com
Mr. Mike Bradshaw
Director, Google Federal
Google Inc.
Mr. ...
With the technical hurdles behind him, Putterman still faces the challenge of luring the kind of consumers who are easily overwhelmed by the prospect of new, unfamiliar computer equipment, says Terri McClure, a storage analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, a technology research firm in Milford, Mass.
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The clouds are just that, cloudy. Hard to figure out what anyone is talking about, or why. I’m here to help.
There are big guys like EMC using “Journey to the private cloud….” as their moniker. They can say nothing, because they are big. The problem, as I explained ...
TwinStrata unveiled its company and strategy today, positioning itself as a cloud storage enablement platform that lets users tap into an intelligent storage cloud.
Cloud storage holds tremendous promise as a way for IT to significantly drive down both CAPEX and OPEX, but the reality is that cloud storage is new ...
NetApp recently threw its hat into the scale-out object storage game with the acquisition of Bycast, a Vancouver, BC-based provider of clustered object storage management software. The acquisition gives NetApp an object management software layer that scales to store billions of objects and a policy engine that provides advanced ...
Cloud storage promises to offer significant operational savings, bottomless storage capacity, reduced capital expenditures, and the flexibility to deploy storage quickly. IT shops, however, remain concerned that it won’t deliver the required performance, security, and data availability they can get with onsite solutions. Nasuni addresses these concerns for ...
Cloud storage holds tremendous promise as a way to reduce the cost of doing business by eliminating upfront and ongoing investments in infrastructure, floor space, power, cooling, and management overhead. Despite 2009’s poor economic environment and cloud’s promise of cost reductions, enterprise users have not flocked to public cloud ...
