Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
Big Data is Big, but it also causes a lot of confusion. Big Data is used for anything related storage these days, so people don’t know anymore what it exactly is. Is it Hadoop? Is it analytics? It doesn’t need to be that complicated though. There are two kinds of Big Data: Big Data (fo...
Red Hat is putting its bought-in Gluster scale-out NAS storage technology,
acquired in October, on the Amazon cloud.
It’s styled Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services and
other clouds are supposed to follow in short order.
"As of the end of 2011," reports Jeff Barr on the official Amazon Web Services blog, "there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times."
You may have seen Amazon’s announcement of the AWS Storage Gateway beta. Truth be told, the cloud storage gateway market is starting to catch fire.
Amazon’s move validates the need for an iSCSI cloud storage gateway to easily deliver cloud storage into business environments and ackn...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta of their new storage gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in your data center site.
With this beta launch, Amazon joins other s...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We have te...
Even if a potential cloud services vendor gives full assurance that you, as the customer, retain ownership of your data, there are a variety of additional challenges to deal with, including essential legal and technical data transferability questions. This expert guide highlights 10 “m...
EMC CEO Joe Tucci still plans to step down next year. A few internal candidates, including former Intel CTO and current EMC President Pat Gelsinger, are still in the running.
And the company faces, as do all major technology companies, a serious responsibility in adapting itself su...
We’ve been talking with our customers for some time about the convergence of identity, security, and storage. There are a number of factors driving this union of technologies and cloud storage provides a great case study to highlight our point of view.
If you caught the recent news on...
Some people caught in the Great Amazon Cloud Burst of 2011 are finding
that like Humpty Dumpty no matter what all the king’s horses and all the
king’s men do they’re not going to get put back together again.
Amazon’s been talking about “stuck EBS volumes” for a couple of days
now...
Iron Mountain, the well known information management company, is exiting the cloud storage business. The company announced yesterday that they will be phasing out their basic cloud storage services by 2013. Iron Mountain isn’t the first provider to turn its … 
"Today it is my pleasure to announce that VMware has hired the team and acquired assets behind EMC’s Mozy cloud-based data protection service," wrote VMware CTO and former Cloud Expo keynoter Steve Herrod Monday, as VMware continued its quest, through strategic acquisitions if necessar...
Delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors will be traveling from all over the world to New York this coming June 6-9 to attend 8th International Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center with 11th Virtualization Conference & Expo.
Here is an ea...
Its eye obviously on costs, Mozy, EMC’s online backup subsidiary, is going
to stop offering its MozyHome customers unlimited storage for $4.99 a
month.
From now on it’s going to charge $5.99 a month for 50GB or $9.99 a month
for 125GB.
The move doesn’t affect its business back...
"We’re delighted to launch our UK cloud today and we already have over 500 customers in beta," said Lanham Napier, President and CEO of Rackspace, as the Texas-based hosting and cloud computing powerhouse announced the launch of its cloud infrastructure to provide customers with a Euro...
Enterprise service bus as a service will begin to emerge within enterprise clouds to allow common messaging within applications among different organizational units. This will further support standardization within an enterprise, as well as reduce lead times for applications developme...
"One day the cloud really will be big..." concludes an article in this week's international print edition of The Economist, an intriguing article that sets out to quantify the size of the three main layers of the cloud computing ecosystem.
There is an exhaustive new study out that should give enormous pause to organizations considering or already using public cloud services, especially for storing data and documents. The research was conducted by The Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London...
In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.
Hitachi Data Systems has announced a pair of new offerings to simplify and accelerate cloud adoption by distributed IT organizations and IT service providers. The Hitachi Content Platform v4 for "content-focused" storage can hold up to 40 petabytes and brings simplified and automated ...
We know that Fujitsu has committed to an aggressive Cloud Computing strategy, as I learned in an interview with Fujitsu Executive SVP Kazuo Ishida back in April. But the company is being modest with respect to this major major announcement with China Mobile, with a China-based Fujitsu ...
There are lots of different cloud-based document management services already out there, and virtually all of them force customers to store documents in the cloud and tightly couple storage with management and access functions into web-based applications. This approach is fine for some...
Dropbox, one of many cloud-based services for storing, syncing and sharing files, yesterday announced updates for their Android and Apple editions, a new version for Blackberry, and that there are now more than one hundred apps that have incorporated their API. Updates - natch. Black...
Hard drive is a commodity. Whether it is IDE, EIDE or SATA, you buy the right one and you can plug it directly into your computer.
On the service providers front (service providers are the biggest cloud storage service providers), they may not all create cloud storage services them...
This year, there are so many choices when it comes to picking a cloud storage vendor, such as Amazon S3, Windows Azure, AT&T Synaptic Storage, Nirvanix, Peer1 CloudOne, EMC Atmos, Mezeo, Google Storage and etc. If you are seriously thinking about expanding your IT infrastructure with C...
Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup and recovery software provider since 1986, today announced Asigra Cloud Backup™ v10. The latest edition extends the reach and performance of the Asigra platform across the broadest range of computing environments, from small businesses to the Global ...
Cloud storage (IaaS) services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or Rackspace CloudFiles have become part of the IT vocabulary these days, with S3 now storing over 124 billion objects as of the second quarter of 2010. Paying 15 cents per gig per month, with no up front capex inve...
As humans, we hate negative emotions. It’s so much nicer to focus on the pleasant. But sometimes you can’t ignore “bad” feelings. And it seems there’s plenty going around amongst IT pros when it concerns the cloud and security.
A new survey says IT peop...
3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that Intercept, a leading UK provider of IT services and hosting, has deployed both 3PAR InServ T-Class and InServ F-Class Storage Server models to support its online and virtualization offerings. Intercept replaced ...
Google Storage for Developer was announced at the recent Google I/O event. A closer look at the Google Storage API reveals that it is similar to Amazon S3’s API. This means direct competition between Google Storage and Amazon S3.
For Small and Medium businesses (SMBs), having hundreds of public clouds to pick from is a very good news. Businesses can continue to drive the infrastructure cost down by leveraging the clouds and focusing on the key competency of the business. As shown below, AT&T Synaptic Storage is...
Since we launched Gladinet Cloud Gateway beta last October (2009), thousands of users have downloaded and registered for the beta license while more than ten thousands downloaded the Gladinet Cloud Desktop. Based on user feedback, we have since released the CloudAFS as a sequel to the ...
While companies certainly see a business benefit to a pay-as-you-go model for computing resources, security concerns seem always to appear at the top of surveys regarding cloud computing. These concerns include authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA) services; encryption; stora...
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today at SNW Spring 2010, the formal approval of the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) as a SNIA Architecture standard. This milestone marks the first industry-developed open standard for cloud computing and will allow f...
