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The State of Password Security

October 3, 2013

Business

Chief technology officer, cloud computing, evernote, Key derivation function, linkedin, Platform as a service, Services, Sony

I’ve written in the past about security in the cloud and the fact that moving to the cloud doesn’t remove all obligations from users to ensure their data is safe. While undeniably using cloud services means that users can…

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PernixData – Launches a Flash Hypervisor for Virtual Data Centers

August 5, 2013

Business

Chief technology officer, Flash memory, PernixData, Scalability, Solid-state drive, SolidFire, Virtual machine, VMware

Is there anyone who isn’t aware of just how supercharged solid state storage is? Only a week or two ago SolidFire picked up a whopping $31M in funding that investors are betting will return a handsome amount as increasingly…

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On the Stackholm Syndrome – And in Defense of Traditional IT Vendors

July 19, 2013

Business

Alan Trefler, Business, Chief technology officer, Information technology, Jonathan Murray, Om Malik, Stockholm Syndrome, Warner Music Group

Now I’m the first to criticize traditional IT vendors – for too long I’ve heard the horror stories of failed deployments, time and cost over runs, massive maintenance fees and the like. There’s no denying that traditional vendors can,…

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GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

April 16, 2013

Business

Big data, Chief technology officer, cloud computing, greenbutton, OpenStack, Portland Oregon, vCloud, Wellington

I’ve written before about GreenButton, the awesome company (awesome for reasons other than the fact that they hail from my home town of Wellington, new Zealand, although that helps immensely) vendor of cross-vendor high performance compute cloud platform. I…

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CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice

September 28, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, Bechtel, Central processing unit, Chief technology officer, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, CloudSigma, Random-access memory

As we move to broader scale cloud adoption, one would be excused for assuming that we’d reached a point where the definition of what constitutes infrastructure as a service is set in stone – true different vendors package up…

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End User Computing… Central Control or Distributed Safety? On Bromium’s Novel Play

September 20, 2012

Business

Bromium, Chief technology officer, Ian Pratt, VMware, VMware ThinApp, VMworld, Wanova, Windows

At VMworld back in August, one of the small number of announcements made revolved around “end user computing”, VMware’s term for all the different products that deliver solutions for actual business users. VMware announced a suite of solutions, built…

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Loggly Gains Funding and a New Exec Team

July 17, 2012

Business

Big data, Business, Chief technology officer, Log management and intelligence, Loggly, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, twitter

In the race to deliver the benefits that big data is promising, a number of products are coming to market that help capture data to later be analyzed by big data tools. One area of particular promise is that…

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Zynga and Z-Cloud–A Corollary to the Public Cloud

February 27, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon web services, Chief technology officer, Netflix, Zynga

At the Cloud Connect event in Santa Clara recently, Allan Leinwand, CTO from Zynga presented a keynote the day after a fairly emphatic statement contained in their earnings call that speaks to their marked retreat from the public cloud.…

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