Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
So unremitting is the storm around the subject of cloud computing, it’s enough to make a person feel like his head is stuffed with cotton. What’s more, the skies fill with ever-more fractured weather patterns, as this concept of arm’s-length computing rains down in increasingly complicated forms.
Let’s take a temperature reading.
Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Cloud Computing, network virtualization, storage virtualization, WorkBook
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
“Windows,” says the confident lady, peering into the television screen after adding the finishing touches to a flawless family photo, “gives me the family nature never could”.
The Wheel In The Sky Keep On Turning
It’s an extraordinary statement, but so too is the idea Microsoft is pitching. Cloud computing is nothing short of a revolution in the sky, and the company has taken it to the masses with a heavyweight of an advertising campaign designed to pique the interest of consumers and small business operators alike with its dead-simple promise of life-altering renewal.
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Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Cloud Computing, network virtualization, storage virtualization, Value Added Reseller (VAR)
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Progress, it turns out, does not always make the world better. In some cases, it just makes it more bloody complicated.
Complexity Breeds Disaster
Such is the apparent case, says Symantec—a security, storage and systems management solutions firm—in today’s disaster recovery scene. Many organizations are struggling to sustain the effectiveness of their security efforts in the face of an ever-more-complex technological landscape, reports Symantec in their recently released Disaster Recovery Study. (more…)
Tags: Disaster Recovery Software, network virtualization, server virtualization, storage virtualization
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
I read an article in The Wall Street Journal recently that told me what I already know: virtualization is gaining furious ground in spite of—or, more likely, because of—the sputtering economy.
According to the Journal, and Gartner Inc.’s technology conference in Orlando, Fla., upon which the story was reporting, virtualization is enjoying attention from the business world for the way it offers managers the means to stretch their dollars further by employing existing resources more profitably. Our studies demonstrate that companies that virtualized increased the utilization of their existing hardware to 80%, a remarkable spike from 10-15%. (more…)
Tags: network virtualization, server virtualization, storage virtualization
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