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Big business still builds data centres

Big business still builds data centres

By Paul Miller on June 30, 2015

451 Research has a new report out this morning, as part of its ongoing Voice of the Enterprise: Datacenters series. I’ll probably dig into the report’s results in more detail elsewhere, but this graphic seemed noteworthy for today’s Thought for the Day: (Source: 451 Research) 25% of the 560 respondents would consider building a new […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged 451 group, 451 research, data center, data centre, survey, tftd, voice of the enterprise

DigitalOcean does Germany

DigitalOcean does Germany

By Paul Miller on April 20, 2015

DigitalOcean does Germany: DigitalOcean is very much an outlier. It calls itself a cloud infrastructure provider but essentially it is a traditional hosting provider (although, I’ll have to admit, there is very little to differentiate between a hosting provider and a raw cloud infrastructure vendor). Whatever it does, it is doing it well. DigitalOcean […] […]

Posted in Business, Infrastructure | Tagged ben kepes, cloud computing, data center, data centre, deutschland, digitalocean, Forbes, Germany, interxion, tftd

Adaptive Computing CEO Robert Clyde talks about Big Data, and lessons from the world of High Performance Computing

Adaptive Computing CEO Robert Clyde talks about Big Data, and lessons from the world of High Performance Computing

By Paul Miller on February 25, 2014

It’s sometimes easy to assume that the large clusters of commodity servers commonly associated with open source big data and NoSQL approaches like Hadoop have made supercomputers and eye-wateringly expensive high performance computing (HPC) installations a thing of the past. But Adaptive Computing CEO Robert Clyde argues that the world of HPC has evolved, and […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged adaptive computing, big data, cloud computing, data centre, Enterprise Computing, high performance computing, hpc, iaas, moab, Podcast, rob clyde, robert a. clyde, robert clyde

Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance

Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance

By Paul Miller on May 16, 2013

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is holding its Forecast event in San Francisco in June, and I’ve been invited to moderate the panel discussing Virtual Machine Interoperability. As moderator, I’ll be far more interested in facilitating insights from panel and audience than in wittering on about what I think, so I wanted to use this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, data center, data centre, Enterprise Computing, forecast13, forecast2013, Hypervisor, iaas, interoperability, odca, open data center alliance, Virtual machine, virtual machine interoperability, VM, vm interoperability

Survey lifts covers on Cloud Promiscuity: good thing, bad thing, or who cares?

Survey lifts covers on Cloud Promiscuity: good thing, bad thing, or who cares?

By Paul Miller on April 30, 2013

Figures from RightScale‘s latest State of the Cloud Report (free registration required) suggest “a strong interest in multi-cloud strategies” amongst respondents. The rationale for hybrid cloud (mixing a public cloud service like Amazon’s with something running in your own data centre, colocation site or hosting facility) is reasonably well understood, but why might companies choose to use more […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, data center, data centre, enstratius, Enterprise Computing, hybrid cloud, multi cloud, private cloud, public cloud, rightscale

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Solar power in the data centre – solution or window dressing?

By Paul Miller on March 19, 2012

Most of us recognise that the Earth is warming and that — despite our planet’s temperatures having dramatically risen and fallen before — we humans must accept some measure of responsibility for the current changes. Already consuming at least 1.1-1.5% of global power, and only forecast to grow ever-more rapacious, the data centres that power our information […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Apple, cloud computing, data center, data centre, energy consumption, Enterprise Computing, environment, global warming, green energy, james hamilton, Oregon, solar energy, solar power

Wendy Mars talks about Cisco's Unified Computing System

Wendy Mars talks about Cisco's Unified Computing System

By Paul Miller on May 18, 2009

Global networking giant Cisco unveiled Unified Service Delivery (USD) last week, following up on the company’s Unified Computing System (UCS) hardware announcement that was covered by Krishnan back in March. Taken together, these announcements shed light on the company’s strategy to strengthen its hold over the data centre, and to offer solutions tailored toward the evolving needs of […]

Posted in Enterprise, Strategy | Tagged cisco, data centre, ucs, unified computing system, unified service delivery, usd, wendy mars | 1 Response

Microsoft, Google,  Azure and Data Centres

Microsoft, Google, Azure and Data Centres

By Ben Kepes on November 6, 2008

Microsoft has been spending a lot of money over many years to ramp up their data centre infrastructure. Once again the difference between Microsoft and Google becomes apparent when we look at their data centre build strategies. First up Microsoft – with the recent announcement of its Azure cloud based OS, Microsoft once and for […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged azure, data centre, google, microsoft | 3 Responses

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