Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers can be hundreds-to-thousands of miles away for a company’s core data center. And accessing those cloud data centers over lower-quality Internet connections can result in poor application performance and slow data transfers to the cloud. This video is a demonstration of Silver Peak software deployed as an Amazon Machine [...]
“The Cloud Isn’t Just For Storing Tweets”
Jan 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I love the title above. I saw it in a great article by Derrick Harris in GigaOM where he talks to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood about the symbiotic nature of big data and cloud computing. While Justin Bieber may disagree, those of us in IT know that the implications of Software-as-a-Service, [...]
Seven Tools That Quantify Cloud ROI
Jan 10, 2013 by 2 Comments
“Going to the Cloud” may have implicitly meant saving money for many in 2012, but increasingly, IT has to provide deeper fiscal justification for its cloud strategy if it’s to get buy-in from the business. Matters are only made more complicated by the emergence of different types of clouds. As I point out in my [...]
AWS re:Invent — Big Data and HPC in the Cloud
Dec 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Right before Silver Peak released its own solution for Amazon Web Services on Dec 3rd, I had the chance to go to Las Vegas to attend AWS re:Invent — the first global partner and customer conference for AWS users. During the three day event there were many new product launches, customer success story talks, technical [...]
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