The idea of improving the performance of applications through the use of parallel computing isn’t a new concept. Look back 50 years and we can see that Amdahl’s Law shows how to predict the performance improvement that can be achieved by using multiple processors. You can find details of Amdahl’s Law on Wikipedia, but essentially… 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 »
VMworld, VMware’s flagship user conference was held this week in Las Vegas, USA. One of the main announcements was the eagerly awaited VMware Cloud On AWS (VMC) moving to general availability. VMC provides the customer experience of VMware software running on AWS hardware in the public cloud. It potentially removes the need to run on-premises… Read more »
Previously we discussed the use of content migration tools to get data into public cloud services. Another alternative is to ship entire virtual machines into the cloud, including the application and data. Why VMs? Why would it be more practical to ship an entire VM than just the data? In some instances and with some… Read more »
Updated 19 September 2017 with details of IBM’s new shipping offering. Updated 10 October 2017 with details of Microsoft Azure’s new shipping offering. Updated 17 October 2017 with details of Backblaze Fireball. This is one of a series of posts on migrating data into the cloud. Other posts in the series: Cloud Data Migration –… Read more »
When I met with Scality CEO Jerôme Lecat last week, he was at pains to ensure that Zenko – the company’s latest software product – wasn’t described as a storage gateway. Jerôme sees gateways as protocol conversion devices, which as we will discuss is definitely not what Zenko is about. So what is it exactly? … Read more »
Instapaper (the SaaS-based solution for keeping track of bookmarks and interesting websites) suffered a catastrophic outage to their service last month. I’ve only just got round to reading the port-mortem account of the incident and it doesn’t make pretty reading. First of all, it’s worth saying that we’ve all been there and experienced that awful… Read more »
Last week, Amazon Web Service’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) suffered what was termed “high error rates” and essentially became unusable for a number of hours to users in the US-East-1 (Virginia) region. There have been a lot of stories circulating talking about the number of SaaS-based applications that were affected, with people being quick to question the… Read more »
I’ve been messing about with databases for a long time. I say “messing about” because I’ve never officially been a DBA. But as a systems programmer and storage administrator, I’ve been on the periphery of the application layer and of course I’ve deployed many personal databases. I was intrigued to read about the new global… Read more »
