Are you following the darkness? No, not the glam rockers — the regular night-time variety. It used to be that people talked of following the sun, by which they meant passing tasks from site to site around the world — California to Singapore to Ireland, say — so there was always someone awake in their [...]
Storage Elasticity and the Cloud’s Noisy Neighbors
Mar 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If you’re looking at setting up private cloud services — or public ones, for that matter — you should already to have a handle on how to automate the critical functions of creating, managing and migrating virtual servers. That’s because if you haven’t achieved this level of service elasticity, it is going to cost a [...]
The Cloud Redefines Corporate WAN Strategies
Mar 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The cloud is everywhere today and has become one of the biggest — if not the biggest — topics of conversation in the tech industry. I recently did a CIO roundtable where we discussed the cloud, and the big topics of conversation revolve around security and deployment strategies. This makes sense, based on where we [...]
Local Rules and the Need for Online Privacy: Clearing Away the Clouds
Mar 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If you’re debating the use of the cloud and offsite hosting, whether for backup, hosting virtual servers, or whatever, there is a lot more than just networking technology to worry about. Or rather, you may need to worry about the technology in ways that you didn’t expect. The reason is differing local rules and the [...]
Big Data — a Job For a Logistics Company?
Mar 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
There was a thread going round on Facebook a while back discussing the “fact” that FedEx had more bandwidth for dealing with big data than the internet itself had. OK — it sounds strange, but if all of FedEx’s vehicles were stuffed to the max with disks full of data, it could move more data [...]
If You Wait Long Enough, The One You Want May Come Along
Feb 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cloud computing — the provision of IT services through a massively shared, elastic platform — holds much promise. However, like many of the silver bullets that have come and gone in the past (client/server, CORBA, web services, service-oriented architectures), everything only hangs together if everyone plays the game and doesn’t try to be too clever. [...]
In the Eye of the Storm with SDN
Feb 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
With winter storm Nemo fresh on our minds, we may consider just how vulnerable we are when weather pressure systems converge upon us. Just a few short months ago Hurricane Sandy and another powerful storm system collided and profoundly affected tens of millions of people on the Eastern Seaboard. Hurricane Sandy’s turbulent convergence with a [...]
The Role of Network Services in IaaS Solutions
Feb 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In my last blog I discussed the expanding set of cloud-based IaaS solutions. I also used the results of a survey that I recently gave to roughly 200 IT professionals as the basis for a discussion of the factors that are driving and inhibiting the adoption of IaaS solutions. I am going to use this [...]
Every Platform Needs Good Foundations
Feb 18, 2013 by 1 Comment
As plans for 2013 kick in, more organizations are looking at adopting a new IT “platform” on which to carry their applications, functions, and services. 2012 was the year of cloud computing — at least from a vendor point of view, talking the subject up but seeing mainly proof-of-concept (PoC) projects and some toe-in-the-water stuff [...]
It’s Not A Strategy To Stick A Pin In A Map
Feb 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cloud computing is touted as the answer — to pretty much anything and everything. For example, if you need elastic resource provision, use cloud. If you don’t want the cost of a facility and hardware plus maintenance, use cloud. If you want greater flexibility in on-boarding new employees and getting rid of old ones, use [...]
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