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 week Kaminario announced a software-defined storage offering called Cloud Fabric, which packages the company’s storage software for cloud service providers. E8 Storage announced a software-only version of the company’s flagship product that can run on pre-qualified hardware platforms. Has the golden age of Software Defined Storage finally arrived? Software First In some respects, the… 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 »
Edit: Chris Mellor at The Register has some additional comment from vendors, including Scale Computing. (link). Further Register emails (link) point to significant slow downs in workload. And here’s another post regarding the need (or not) to patch storage appliances. Unless you’ve been 100% disconnected from technology (and the Internet) over the last few days,… Read more »
Big congratulations to Avere Systems, who recently announced their acquisition by Microsoft. Avere is a company I’ve followed since inception in 2008. Their technology started as an edge NAS filer, extending data centre content to branch offices. Over time, the platform became virtual and moved to the public cloud. Today, vFXT (the cloud instance of… 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 »
In recent days we’ve heard that Microsoft will assist VMware users in moving their workloads to Azure. For the more “difficult” applications, customers can choose to simply run applications on vSphere hosted on the Azure platform. This service will be delivered in conjunction with VMware-certified partners. In response, VMware has released a blog indicating that… 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 »
