Tag Archives: Cloud

What is cloud storage good for?

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Ray

Cloud storage has emerged  as a viable business service in the last couple of years, but what does cloud storage really do for the data center.  Moving data out to the cloud makes for unpredictable access times with potentially unsecured and unprotected … Continue reading →

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Securing the cloud – part B

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Ray

A recent article from MIT’s Technology Review discussed cloud security (“Security in the Ether”). Most of the article was on how many cloud servers are vulnerable to a particular hack that can uncover private data in server memory/cache. But a … Continue reading →

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Storage strategic inflection points

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Ray

Both EMC and Spectra Logic celebrated their 30 years in business this month and it got me to thinking. Both companies started the same time but one is a ~$14B revenue (’09 projected) behemoth and the other a relatively successful, … Continue reading →

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Sidekick's failure, no backups

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Ray

I believe I have covered this ground before but apparently it needs reiterating. Cloud storage without backup cannot be considered a viable solution. Replication only works well if you never delete or logically erase data from a primary copy. Once … Continue reading →

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What's holding back the cloud?

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Ray

Steve Duplessie’s recent post on how the lack of scarcity will be a gamechanger got me thinking. Free is good but the simplicity of the user/administrative interface is worth paying for. And it’s that simplicity that pays off for me. … Continue reading →

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