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How You Know You’ve Got the Right Startup Model?

How You Know You’ve Got the Right Startup Model?

By Mark Suster on April 1, 2014

If you’ve watched any industry in the last 20 years where technology has begun to transform how the industry works the results are always predictable driven by what Clay Christensen appropriately called “The Innovator’s Dilemma” (one of the most influential books that changed my thinking about markets). Young startups claim they are going to change […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud storage, Entrepreneurship, Public Storage, startups, Tech Market Analysis, TrueCar, vc funding, venture capital

The Case for Tiered Storage in Private Clouds

The Case for Tiered Storage in Private Clouds

By Randy Bias on February 24, 2014

Fall of last year I wrote a controversial whitepaper detailing my concerns about how distributed storage was being marketed.  The blog introduction and the whitepaper were both entitled Converged Storage, Wishful Thinking, and Reality.  There was a certain amount of expected blowback from folks at RedHat and Ceph as well as more thoughtful replies from […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud storage, cloudscaling, google, solidfire, tiered storage

Podcasting again… with StorSimple’s Marc Farley

Podcasting again… with StorSimple’s Marc Farley

By Paul Miller on January 28, 2014

I used to podcast pretty regularly, on this site and elsewhere. Then other things got in the way and, before I knew it, almost two years had passed since my last podcast here. Well, it’s time to put that right. I’m podcasting again, and I’ve got a nice pipeline of guests lined up over the […]

Posted in Technology | Tagged cloud computing, cloud storage, Enterprise Computing, iaas, Marc Farley, microsoft, Podcast, storsimple

You Can’t Collapse Tiered Storage in Private Clouds Built on OpenStack: Whitepaper

You Can’t Collapse Tiered Storage in Private Clouds Built on OpenStack: Whitepaper

By Randy Bias on September 11, 2013

Fantastical thinking by private cloud builders has led to a deep misunderstanding of cloud storage technologies. If you are building a private cloud, you MUST understand the realities of cloud storage and not just think in terms of buying a single simple solution to what is ultimately a very complex problem. I’ve written a detailed […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud storage, netapp, openstack, storage

Clown Computing–Entertaining and Attention Grabbing but a Flawed Thesis

Clown Computing–Entertaining and Attention Grabbing but a Flawed Thesis

By Ben Kepes on February 19, 2013

Recently I attended Webstock, a conference in Wellington, New Zealand that is well known for bringing together technology, design and general brain stimulation. It was a great event, with some awesome speakers but one presentation, by Jason Scott, part of an activist preservationist group Archive Team, kind of stuck in my craw. In his presentation, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Archive Team, christchurch, cloud computing, cloud storage, clown computing, GeoCities, Internet Archive, webstock, wellington

Sure Dropbox is Potentially Insecure, but Does it Matter?

Sure Dropbox is Potentially Insecure, but Does it Matter?

By Ben Kepes on January 21, 2013

It’s summertime down in my neck of the woods and that’s a good time to go out on a limb with a statement that might get people a little fired up. Bear with me on this one though… Over on GigaOm Barb Darrow has a good write up about the findings of a survey commissioned […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged cloud storage, data loss, dropbox, ipad, iphone, Nasuni, Om Malik, Shadow IT | 6 Responses

Dropbox, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive; maybe they’re not apples after all?

Dropbox, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive; maybe they’re not apples after all?

By Paul Miller on November 21, 2012

Cloud storage product Dropbox is one of those tools that users tend to rave about. It’s deceptively simple. It’s pretty reliable. The value proposition is immediately apparent. It has paid tiers of usage that bring additional storage but (like other freemium beacons such as Evernote) the free offering is rich enough to be compelling, engaging, […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, Apple, box, cloud computing, cloud storage, dropbox, evernote, google, microsoft, skydrive, Windows Live SkyDrive | 5 Responses

FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

By Ben Kepes on November 13, 2012

In launching FileLocker, InfraScale CEO Ken Shaw is claiming that both DropBox and Box have been “substantially misrepresenting their capabilities when it comes to security and won’t be adopted by enterprise or Government” because of it. Those are pretty strong words…

Posted in Application Software, Security | Tagged box, cloud storage, Data Loss Prevention, dropbox, egnyte, Encryption, FileLocker, ssl, Star Trek: Enterprise, venturebeat | 2 Responses

TwinStrata CloudArray Now Supports NAS for Heterogeneous Storage Management

TwinStrata CloudArray Now Supports NAS for Heterogeneous Storage Management

By Ben Kepes on November 5, 2012

I’ve written previously about TwinStrata – a company whose CloudArray storage gateway is designed to enable organizations to deploy cloud SANs which combine public and private cloud storage providers along with their existing storage infrastructure. It’s a logical play – while pure cloud may be the holy grail and the

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, cloud storage, CloudArray, Computer data storage, IBM, ISCSI, Server Message Block, TwinStrata

On Not Forgetting to be 10x Better

On Not Forgetting to be 10x Better

By Jason M. Lemkin on November 1, 2012

I was struggling what to make of the news that now, AT&T too was jumping into the cloud storage-as-a-commodity business offering 5GB of free online storage.  Just like DropBox.  And Google Drive.  And Box, if you use it that way.  And iCloud.  And SkyDrive.  And.  And.  And. You could make fun of it, but it […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged 10x, ATT, box, Business process, cloud storage, dropbox, idrive, saas

Another Answer for a Safe Hybrid Dropbox-like Solution–MagFS Launches

Another Answer for a Safe Hybrid Dropbox-like Solution–MagFS Launches

By Ben Kepes on August 27, 2012

Two things most enterprise IT folks agree on are that Dropbox is a risky proposition for sensitive enterprise data and that employees are demanding solutions with a “Dropbox-like” functional spec. It’s a big area of opportunity and one that companies like Egnyte and Oxygen Cloud have spent time addressing – Dropbox’s seemingly never ending security […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Amazon S3, cloud computing, cloud storage, dropbox, EMC Atmos, magfs, maginatics, Microsoft Azure, vmware, vmworld | 1 Response

Dropbox Security Issues–IT has itself to Blame

Dropbox Security Issues–IT has itself to Blame

By Ben Kepes on July 31, 2012

So Dropbox, the file sharing, backup and sync service that has been setting the world on fire, seems to have had some serious problems of late. It seems a large number of users have received spam e-mails and, in response, Dropbox has bought in a SWAT team of security experts

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Security | Tagged cloud computing, cloud storage, dropbox, Email address, syncplicity, twitter, User (computing) | 4 Responses

Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda

Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda

By Ben Kepes on March 6, 2012

We’ve been talking for years about Google offering a storage system to take on the likes of Box and DropBox. It’s an obvious development for the company who arguable has the best economics around data storage on earth. Last year we got an inkling of this direction with the release

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged box, cloud storage, dropbox, google, google app engine, Google Cloud Storage, panzura, Zmanda | 5 Responses

AppSense Trying To Make Personal Clouds Enterprise Worthy

AppSense Trying To Make Personal Clouds Enterprise Worthy

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 21, 2012

AppSense, the NewYork based company focussed on Virtualization solutions, today announced their research wing, AppSense Labs, focussed on bridging the gap between personal services and enterprise. They also announced their first product under AppSense Labs called DataLocker (iTunes link for iPad and iPhone). This got my attention for two reasons: As the so called consumerization […]

Posted in Security | Tagged appsense, briefs, cloud computing, cloud security, cloud storage, dropbox, enteprise, personal cloud, Security, sugarsync

WorldDesk and DropBox Make a Truly Virtual Desktop

WorldDesk and DropBox Make a Truly Virtual Desktop

By Ben Kepes on February 14, 2012

A few days ago a little battle raged around what the launch of Google’s GDrive product might mean for DropBox. At the time fellow Cloud watcher Alex Williams commented that DropBox has a lot of magic that would save its day – I wasn’t so sure but it’s nonetheless interesting

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud storage, Desktop virtualization, dropbox, google, Microsoft Windows, Virtual desktop | 1 Response

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