Editorial Team In his introductory post, Steve mentioned that when we were at VeriCenter we became aware of a new sort of challenge facing our industry – from outside entrants like Amazon.com who were beginning to grow their cloud storage and cloud computing businesses, leveraging internal web-based infrastructure. We knew then that cloud storage, as a significant … Read more
I’ll be doing a presentation at Cloud Slam ’09 titled: “The Most Interesting Sub-plot in Cloud Computing is Cloud Storage” Here’s what I’ll be talking about: While much of the collective discussion has focused on cloud computing and trying to define it, cloud storage has not so quietly gone from concept to tangible business with … Read more
Nicholas Hoover informs us that General Electric is pilot testing the Cloud. Here are a few key points: GE has tens of thousands of servers in 10 primary data centers, and the number of servers in those facilities is growing 20% annually. 60% of GE’s servers are already virtualized. GE is already testing cloud platforms … Read more
How would you like to put 100 DVDs on one CD? This week the folks at G.E. announced their latest breakthrough in Holographic Storage on Brian Lawrence’s blog: it’s about ” threshold recording behavior” – the team at GE has apparently figured out how to improve performance by 100x to 200x over past efforts. For … Read more
The last few days have seen a lot of discussion over the McKinsey & Company report: Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing. McKinsey said the cost of the Cloud is high when compared to a large enterprises ability to implement similar services in house. They may, currently, be correct, but over time, this will likely … Read more
With the Sun acquisition, Larry “what’s a cloud?” Ellison has once again changed the game. Here are a few key points to think about: 1) Oracle becomes the end-to-end IT enabler – from apps to disks; that’s the party line. 2) Oracle begins the journey to the Cloud, and begins to develop the end-to-end Enterprise … Read more
Maureen O’Gara’s recent Cloudonomics article says: “Citrix has pushed out a cloud solution called Citrix C3 Lab so its followers can use Amazon’s EC2 and S3 as part of their standard technology infrastructure and prototype cloud projects…This week it added XenApp and XenDesktop so service providers can deliver Windows applications and desktops as a service…C3 … Read more
When Gray Hall and I launched this blog, our first entry included this statement: “…this phenomenon called cloud computing represents both an exciting opportunity and a significant threat to the IT service provider industry.” Not all service providers possess the in house capability, or desire, to build the raw infrastructure to deliver a cloud computing … Read more
The free CloudLayer iPhone application is now live at the iTunes App Store. You can click on this link to take you right to it in either iTunes or on the iPhone directly. This will allow you to register for a 1 GB CloudLayer storage service, that includes 1GB of storage.
For some time now, we have been making the case that Cloud Storage is a disruptive innovation, a game changer in its category. By stating this, we are of course employing Clayton Christensen’s now famous theories on disruptive innovation (refer to his books: The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution, and Seeing What’s Next) His theory … Read more