Hans De Leenheer comments on the various cloud storage offerings from TwinStrata, CloudBerry, StorSimple, VMware Octopus/Horizon, Amazon, and others. Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, bleh bleh bleh, ... get over it, it is all called CLOUD and it will remain that way for a while. What … [Read more...]
Talking Cloud Storage Gateways With Nasuni and Cirtas
February 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I’ve got a new video podcast up and running: Raising the Floor is a series of discussions about the future of enterprise IT. I kicked the series off talking about one of my favorite topics: Cloud storage. I invited two excellent guests to join me for this conversation: Josh Goldstein, VP of … [Read more...]
Overcoming The Limits Of Thin Provisioning With Automatic Provisioning!
December 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Most thin provisioning solutions are colossal hack jobs. How about real automatic provisioning instead? I’ve never been a fan of thin provisioning as a storage management tool. Don’t get me wrong, I love having thin provisioning in my toolkit to overcome the limitations of conventional … [Read more...]
From CAS to Cloud: Revolutionary Storage
October 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
We need to move beyond fake disks and deploy application-centric storage Change is not a word normally associated with storage, and revolution is practically unheard of. Today’s modern enterprise storage systems and networks employ massive resources to do one simple thing: Emulate the basic … [Read more...]
Economic Truth
September 25, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Steve Duplessie posts on Cloud Economics and especially the economics of Cloud Storage, 20 TBs of storage from Amazon's S3 cloud will cost you $36,000 a year and that doesn't necessarily compare especially well with purchasing your own array. So do the economics of the Cloud storage scale, … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing: Cloud Standardisation
September 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Stephen Foskett has been posting some interesting commentary over the last week relating to cloud standards and today discussed the Zend API for PHP. In previous posts, he’s mentioned the SNIA initiative amongst others. Have a look at this great post he wrote on why standards aren’t … [Read more...]