The Appliance of Backup Science
With apologies to Zanussi for the corny title, I had an interesting conversation with Axcient CEO Justin Moore and HP’s VP for Channel Strategy & SMB Meaghan Kelly about the issues of helping small and medium businesses cope with backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Yesterday’s conversation was taking place in the context of today’s [...]
In a world of niche Clouds, how do you define a useful niche?
There are a couple of interesting posts on the blog of the UK’s FLESSR project, detailing their efforts to work out how feasible it might be to offer a new Cloud service to universities. More on that in a moment. I don’t think I’ve ever really been convinced by the argument that everything will end [...]
The Cloud Economics : Emerging Signals
Over the weekend, I finished reading the recently released Microsoft paper on the “Economics of the cloud”. As I head to Denver today for participating in the defrag panel on the impact of cloud computing in the enterprise irregulars track, I just…
Clouds and my Coffee
Sydney is an amazing city, much like most Western large cities in many ways and much different too. The CloudBlog team decided to check on how Sydney perceives cloud computing – extremely well it seems. Within a half dozen meetings and one keynote from CloudBlogger Peter Coffee it…
What Cloud Computing Means to Your Network
What Cloud Computing Means to Your Network As organizations seek to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase scalability, virtualization and cloud computing are becoming an integral part of their IT strategies. However, cloud computing also presents new challenges for testers and network/data center operators. Because applications and networks are no longer independent entities, these groups [...]
When Startups Grow, They Also Grow Out Of The Cloud
More than one and a half years back, I made a tweet asking people When startups grow, do they stay in the cloud or move to their own datacenter? I got multiple responses with some saying that they will continue to stay in the cloud as they don’t have to incur Capex and they can [...]
US Air Force Forced to Play – by Sony
My new HTC Incredible phone has a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor in it. That’s faster than laptop computers were just a few years ago. That, and reading the US Air Force story (you have to wait for that a little longer…) reminded me of an interesting conversation with Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu two years ago: Given [...]
Attempting To Open Source Data Center Design
Image via Wikipedia Being an unabashed proponent of Open Source, I can avoid the news about a new industry group trying to start an initiative to open source data center design. The Open Source Data Center Initiative, announced last week, will act as a repository of technologies associated [...]
Cloud Computing's Green Mantra And How Finland Is Doing It Right
One of the selling points for Cloud Computing is the idea of green. Vendors and evangelists get excited while talking about the “green-ness” of Cloud Computing. Part of it is plain marketing nonsense and part of it is true. In this era where a huge industry survives based on its ability to numb out the [...]
Cloud Computing Does Not Absolve a Company of Good Disaster Planning
Yes the data blowout at Microsoft’s Danger data center should have everyone taking a short sharp look at the way that they do data recovery and disaster preparedness. The problem is not so much the outage but the data loss, data loss caused because the backups didn’t work. This is not a cloud computing issue [...]
Big Gamble, Big Loss: the Fisher Plaza Datacenter Fire
Image via Wikipedia Disaster recovery, it is one of those IT 101 issues, there is no viable good reason to not have a hot/cold spare site in the day and age of cloud computing, data centers stitched across the planet, and while it is not trivial, the ability to synch all those systems into a [...]
