Enterprises of every size are moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Maintaining operational awareness is difficult enough within a single cloud…
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Read MoreI remember back in 2005, when Microsoft, an HPC outsider, created buzz in the supercomputing and grid computing spaces by tapping Tony…
Read MoreLast week, Om gave us a quick, insightful take on the sudden interest in de-duplication leader Data Domain by both EMC and NetApp. Today at GigaOM Pro, we offer those looking for a deeper understanding on the strategic importance of de-duplication to the storage and cloud computing market the latest report by Tech Alpha, “De-duping the Storage Industry: What the acquisition of Data Domain means for the storage industry.”…
Read MoreCompanies are rolling out storage efficiency technology as fast as they can since that technology helps delay and avoid additional capital expenditures that would otherwise be needed to accommodate ongoing data growth. Data Domain is the leader in storage efficiency and therefore represents an attractive target to larger storage OEMs that are driving the consolidation of the industry. This note examines the strategic rationale of the deal for the different potential acquirers as well as for Data Domain, elaborates on what the deal means for customers, and puts Data Domain’s offerings in the context of storage efficiency technologies and trends.…
Read MoreThe lightning strike-induced outage of an Amazon EC2 data center underscores the importance of eventually getting to a state of hybrid clouds.…
Read MoreOf all the new SaaS and cloud services offerings that come out in any given week, Google’s new GMail-Outlook plug-in excites me…
Read MoreThis notion that Microsoft should buy Salesforce.com is an interesting one for a number of reasons. Not the least of which is…
Read MoreGary Orenstein’s weekend GigaOM post on Hadoop, as well as some other recent posts on the software, got me thinking about the…
Read MoreIt’s not that I have a one-track mind pointed directly at cloud computing, but week after week the paradigm dominates discussions around cutting-edge infrastructure. This week, for example saw several new players — some of them rather large companies — step into the cloud ring with entirely new platforms. LongJump announced its all-inclusive PaaS offering; Computer Sciences Corp. said it will be launching an enterprise- and federal-grade cloud; Contegix introduced Zeus, its managed-hosting-style cloud; Akamai outlined its cloud strategy; and Tibco previewed its upcoming cloud application platform, Silver. But it’s Verizon Business, which took the wraps off its cloud service called, fittingly, Computing as a Service, that has me asking the most questions.…
Read MoreI can’t help but think that the questions about the effect cloud computing will have on CIOs is just the latest round…
Read MoreI have some issues with IDC’s notion that applying telecom-style rate systems to cloud services is a good idea. ISVs do need…
Read MoreToday brings us a couple of “real” enterprise cloud plays, with Verizon Business and Tibco announcing cloud solutions. Although enterprise customers are…
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