Category Archives: Cloud services

Is cloud a leapfrog technology?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Ray

Read an article today about Safaricom creating a domestic cloud service offering outside Nairobi in Kenya (see Chasing the African Cloud). But this got me to thinking that cloud services may be just like mobile phones in that developing countries … Continue reading →

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The sensor cloud comes home

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Ray

We thought the advent of smart power meters would be the killer app for building the sensor cloud in the home.  But, this week Honeywell announced a new smart thermostat that attaches to the Internet and uses Opower’s cloud service … Continue reading →

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Shared DAS

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Ray

An announcement this week by VMware on their vSphere  5 Virtual Storage Appliance has brought back the concept of shared DAS (see vSphere 5 storage announcements). Over the years, there have been a few products, such as Seanodes and Condor Storage … Continue reading →

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vSphere 5 storage enhancements

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Ray

Twitter was all abuzz yesterday about the recent VMware vSphere 5 announcement. Although there were quite a few changes that came out, the ones of most interest to me were all in the data storage arena: DAS storage appliance – … Continue reading →

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NewSQL and the curse of Old SQL database systems

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Ray

There was some twitter traffic yesterday on how Facebook was locked into using MySQL (see article here) and as such, was having to shard their MySQL database across 1000s of database partitions and memcached servers in order to keep up with … Continue reading →

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Cloud and social media data privacy rights

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Ray

There was an minor announcement yesterday, which said something to the effect that data stored in the cloud in Europe and other locations was not immune to US Patriot act access. This concern was mainly aired by one cloud provider … Continue reading →

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VMware’s CEO at EMCWorld

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Ray

At EMCWorld earlier this week, Paul Maritz CEO of VMware took center stage and talked about what they were doing to help customers in their journey to the cloud. From his perspective, there seems to be 3 phases to the journey … Continue reading →

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SNIA CDMI plugfest for cloud storage and cloud data services

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Ray

Was invited to the SNIA tech center to witness the CDMI (Cloud Data Managament Initiative) plugfest that was going on down in Colorado Springs. It was somewhat subdued. I always imagine racks of servers, with people crawling all over them … Continue reading →

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