Recently while researching the concept of ‘Cloud Bursting‘ I received a history lesson in Cloud Computing after a misguided tweet at Chris Hoff (@Beaker.) My snarky comment suggested Chris needed a lesson in Cloud history, but as it turns out I received the lesson. My reference turned out to be…
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Innovative Versus Integration Cloud Stacks
The Live Webcast with NetApp and Kingman Tang went quite well with good discussion on private cloud and data center stacks. Check out the recording below. A BrightTALK Channel Related posts: The Power of Innovative Datacenter Stacks Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage Hybrid Cloud’s Burst Bubble The Difference Between…
World Wide Technology’s Upcoming Geek Day
Coming up very quickly is World Wide Technology’s (www.wwt.com) annual Geek Day, March 10th 2011 (http://www.wwt.com/geekday/.) I’m very much looking forward to the event for two reasons: It’s free to customers It’s totally focused on geeks interacting with geeks. The event is focused around live interactive demo’s from sponsor technology…
An End User’s Cloud Security Question
I recently received an email with a question about the security of cloud computing environments. The question comes from a knowledgeable user and boils down to ‘Isn’t my data safer on my systems?’ I thought this would be a great question to open up to the wider community. Does anyone…
Promote Your Strategy to Boost Your Cloud Execution
Sitting on yet another flight during takeoff I was forced to read print because my Kindle could obviously disable the auto-pilot system and force us to crash land on a secret government island and start a horrible soap opera with a four letter title. Since Harvard Business Review isn’t available…
The Cloud Storage Argument
The argument over the right type of storage for data center applications is an ongoing battle. This argument gets amplified when discussing cloud architectures both private and public. Part of the reason for this disparity in thinking is that there is no ‘one size fits all solution.’ The other part…
Cloud Types
Within the discussion of cloud computing there are several concepts that get tossed around and mixed up. Part of the reason for this is that there are several cloud architecture types. While there are tons of types and sub-types discussed I’ll focus on four major deployment models here: Public Cloud,…