Tag Archives: cloud economics

Cirtas surfaces

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, Cirtas came out of stealth mode and into the lime-light with their new Bluejet cloud storage controller hardware system.  Cirtas joins a number of other products offering cloud storage to the enterprise by supplying a more standard interface which … Continue reading →

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Why cloud, why now?

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Ray

I have been struggling for sometime now to understand why cloud computing and cloud storage have suddenly become so popular.  We have previously discussed some of cloud problems (here and here) but we have never touched on why cloud has … Continue reading →

Posted in Business economics, Cloud services, Market dynamics, storage economics, Strategy, Systems | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments