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Reconciling Networking Layers–Why Visibility Between Overlays And Underlays Is Important

May 13, 2015

Business

Alcatel Lucent, Application programming interface, Bell Labs, Bluetooth low energy, Cisco Systems, cloud computing, data center, Internet of Things, Nokia, Rajeev Suri

I talk a lot about how fabrics are helping organizations be more agile and chase the innovation that is the lifeblood for survival. While innovation is a business requirement, all too often technology is the blocker to faster and…

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Guest post – Death of a cloud provider – 5 practical ways to avoid becoming a SaaS refugee

August 11, 2014

Business

Big data, Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, JSON, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, Springpad

A guest post from Paul Muller – Paul Muller leads global strategic marketing within the Software business at HP responsible for building awareness and implementation of best practices across all elements of the IT value chain as well as…

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Windows Azure Is No More

March 25, 2014

Business

cloud computing, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows, Satya Nadella, Windows, Windows Azure, ZDNet

As expected Microsoft today announced that its Windows Azure product will be no more after April 3. But don’t worry, it’s simply a name change. In a move that sees the product named more accurately for what it actually…

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Software Defined Storage On The Rise – Zadara Hooks Toshiba

February 26, 2014

Business

cloud computing, Cloud storage, Quality of service, Service provider, Software defined storage, Toshiba, Zadara, Zadara Storage

Zadara storage, one of a growing number of companies working in the software defined storage space, recently announced a major coup – Toshiba is launching a cloud storage array product built on the back of Zadara’s own technology. The…

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Flexiant Scores A Coup With Parallels Signing Up To Resell Their Product

February 26, 2014

Business

Application Packaging Standard, cloud computing, Cloud storage, Flexiant, Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator, Plesk, Service provider, Virtual private server

Parallels is a company that has long been a provider of tools for partners to enable end users – hosting tools like Plesk, tools to enable services brokerages and the like. But they’ve been somewhat lacking with a consistent story…

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GreenQloud Goes Hybrid – QStack Built On Top Of CloudStack

February 25, 2014

Business

cloud computing, CloudStack, dropbox, GreenQLoud, Iceland, Open source, OpenStack, Scality

I’m a big fan of Icelandic cloud vendor GreenQloud (more on them here) for a number of reasons – firstly they’ve managed to differentiate what they do without resorting to post-Snowden fear mongering. In GreenQloud’s case it’s all about…

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Dell’s Serious About Being a Software Player – Inks Reseller Deal With NetSuite

February 25, 2014

Business

Boomi, Business, cloud computing, Dell, Dell Services, Enstratius, netsuite, Personal computer

For a vendor like Dell, that has historically made its money selling servers and PCs, the dual trends away from traditional PC’s and the move to cloud computing and commodity hardware has radically shifted the sands upon which their business…

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Doubting Google’s Cloud Commitment

October 21, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Companies, data center, Forbes, google, google app engine, Search Engine, Searching

After a recent Forbes post, I was asked to appear on SDRNews to talk about my view on why Google needs to get more serious about its commitment to its cloud infrastructure customers. Here’s the interview in its entirety…

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Service Level Agreements as a Vendor Risk Mitigation Strategy

October 16, 2013

Business

Business, cloud computing, Customer, Data loss, Patch (computing), Service level agreement, SLA, User (computing)

The other day I came across a blog post from attorney Don Pepper about public cloud provider’s SLA’s and some unintended consequences they might create Pepper explained that it is becoming more common to see SLAs expanded to cover…

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Structure Europe – On Cloud Brokerage

October 11, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Cloud Options, John Cowan, London, Om Malik, San Francisco, Structure 2010, Zimory

Last month I had the pleasure of visiting one of my favorite cities, London, for GigaOm‘s Structure event. While there I moderated a panel with two very smart individuals, John Cowan, CEO of 6Fusion and James Mitchell, CEO of…

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