This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. There’s a very interesting theme to the presenters at CFD3 and that highlights one of the challenges of… Read more »
This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. When processes get too complex and time-consuming, there’s a temptation to stick in another layer of abstraction and… Read more »
It’s arrived. Dropbox, the ubiquitous file-sharing platform, has finally submitted a rather light S-1, indicating an Initial Public Offering is on the way. From the various reports written so far, it’s likely the company is intending to raise around $500m. Subsidies The first thing that leaps out at me when looking into the announcement is… Read more »
This is one of a series of posts looking at data mobility for the hybrid cloud. You can find a link to all of the published articles as they become available here. (link). Probably the most elegant solution to data mobility is to seemingly make data appear in many places at the same time. Imagine… Read more »
This is one of a series of posts looking at data mobility for the hybrid cloud. You can find a link to all of the published articles as they become available here. (link). Caching is not a new technology. In fact, it’s been used as a technique to cost-effectively accelerate I/O performance since computers were… Read more »
I’m doing a little more structured work with public cloud, so have been going back and cleaning up and standardising the existing accounts I already have. The first thing is to create accounts that are company, not user specific. I like to use distribution groups or mailing lists for setting up accounts. They are more… Read more »
Hallowe’en turned out to be a real fright for some Google Docs users yesterday as access to content was blocked due to a buggy code push. The result was that certain content was flagged to have broken Google’s Terms and Conditions. As widely reported, for some users this could have been a real issue, had… Read more »
Over the last few weeks, I’ve talked a lot about data mobility and exactly how we should get data into the public cloud from on-premises locations. You can find links to the posts at the end of this blog entry. Much of what I’ve talked about revolves around moving data in a relatively static way,… Read more »
On the day the Dell/EMC acquisition/merger completed, HPE announced it was selling off a load of non-core software assets in a “spin-off” merger with UK’s Micro Focus. HPE gets $2.5 billion in cash and HPE shareholders get a 50.1% ownership of the new entity, which will continue to be called Micro Focus. In addition SUSE… Read more »
