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AppZero – Another Take on Application Portability

May 3, 2013

Business

AppZero, cloud computing, Greg O'Connor, Microsoft Windows, Portable application, Servers, Virtual application, Virtual machine

If there is one thing that gets enterprise folks riled up, it’s those sitting in the gallery talking about cloud bursting and application portability in general. To the excited blog posts announcing the latest solution to the application portability…

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HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

May 1, 2013

Business

data center, High availability, HybridCluster, IBM, rackspace, Servers, SQL, VMware, Web hosting service

Last year while talking with Jason Seats, former VP of Engineering at Rackspace and more recently MD of TechStars Cloud, we started talking about existing data centers and what their needs were as they aim to compete with the…

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Removing the Barriers to Cloud Adoption

April 3, 2013

Business

Amazon.com, Business, cloud computing, Information technology, Netflix, Servers, Technology, Zynga

Cross posted from the Cloudability blog… I spend my life doing a bunch of different things – but whether I’m investing, commentating on the technology industry, advising a startup or consulting to a large vendor, there are some common…

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Overcoming the Perils of Licensing with CiRBA

January 30, 2013

Business

Andrew Hillier, CiRBA, License, Microsoft SQL Server, Servers, Site Management, Virtual machine, VMware

The efficiency that virtualization brings is good and all, but there still exists issues around licensing costs. Essentially having a virtualization product, and making licensing changes to optimize a customer’s costs are two very different things. CiRBA, a provider…

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Zyrion Launches Predictive Analytics for IT Monitoring

May 9, 2012

Business

Big data, cloud computing, Data mining, Information technology management, Predictive analytics, Servers, Zyrion

Seemingly every day another vendor launches a service that promises to revolutionize the way they monitor their IT infrastructure. Generally these launches comply with all the buzzword – cloud, big data, predictive analytics etc. While I’ve no doubt that…

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Incapsula–Security and Performance for the Masses

April 23, 2012

Business

Business plan, cloud computing, Domain Name System, Imperva, Incapsula, Servers, Website

Difficult economic times have led to a huge number of people moving from paid employment to self-employment. Many of these people are building digital businesses that rely on a website to either directly sell their offering, or to tell…

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It’s the Total Cost of Ownership that Counts

August 12, 2011

Business

cloudcomputing, Networking, rackspace, Servers, Total Cost of Ownership

First published on the Rackspace blog. Not long ago I was alerted to a humorous, if somewhat jarring file. This pdf (read it and weep) is the price list for the Fusion series of applications from Oracle. The list has a couple of pages of…

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Blog Archives

AppZero – Another Take on Application Portability

HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

Removing the Barriers to Cloud Adoption

Overcoming the Perils of Licensing with CiRBA

Zyrion Launches Predictive Analytics for IT Monitoring

Incapsula–Security and Performance for the Masses

It’s the Total Cost of Ownership that Counts