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Google to Drop Sync Support for Blackberry
Can you smell blood in the water? It looks like Google does. In a blog post released today, the company announced that on June 1, it will drop support for Google Sync for BlackBerry. The news came as part of what Google calls a “spring cleaning.” It looks more like a power play. Blackberry market share ...
An OpenStack View on the Critical Mistake Made by Amazon Web Services and The Dilemma Facing VMware
Yesterday I posted the first part of a long interview with the founders of Piston Cloud. In part two, Former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, and Rackspace alumni Christopher MacGown trace the roots of the OpenStack movement to the 1980s and the move to convergence. In McKenty’s view the path to convergence took 30 ...
With Its New Marketplace, Amazon Web Services is Becoming the Next Microsoft
Amazon Web Services Marketplace launched this morning. It’s a comprehensive service that makes the company a full-fledged app seller with the undoubtable potential to move further up the stack and become the next Microsoft. The move furthers AWS lead in the cloud marketplace and shows how its approach is different than most Infrastructure as a ...
Getting to the Heart of OpenStack: Part 1
Former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, and Rackspace alumni Christopher MacGown are two of Piston Cloud‘s original founders. They are also two individuals who helped start OpenStack. Yes, they’re among the smartest you will find in the open cloud world. And they’re also jugglers. So it just seemed appropriate to post this interview on ...
IBM Earnings Reflect On Big Blue’s Storage Strategy
IBM storage revenues decreased 4% in the first quarter. It’s noteworthy for a few reasons. Ir reinforces the results posted by Gartner last month that shows soft demand for external-controller based disk storage. The market grew only 4.8%. Gartner expected growth of 7.6%. In that report, EMC’s market share grew about 4% with an overall increase ...
Raising Questions About IBM’s Services Approach
IBM posted mixed earnings results today. Its dividend beat street estimates by 13 cents but revenues were flat with services showing limited gains. Big Blue’s Global Technology Services segment saw revenues increase 2% to $10 billion. But the Global Business Services segment was down 2 percent to $4.6 billion. IBM also reported that its backlog was ...
14 Companies Looking for “Big Data Engineers”
Do a search on Indeed.com for “big data engineer” and you will find 26 listings. That compares to ten job listings for “big data architects.” I became curious about this new job description when I saw a job post from Disqus. Then I looked at the trend line. “big Data Engineer” Job Trends “big Data ...
Object Storage is Hot at NAB
The scale of data storage in demand by media and entertainment companies is taking new dimensions at this year’s National Association Broadcast annual event in Las Vegas. One thing is clear: RAID Storage is on the way out and object storage is in. The issue in many respects comes down to the rebuild. Data flows ...
The Cloud is Not the Bubble Incarnate – It’s the New Workflow
You can say what you want about the cloud and its faults. The CIO will say it lacks security. Vendors will tell you that it’s better to have your own private cloud. The linkbait kings will tell you the cloud is the bubble incarnate. But the truth is best illustrated in what people are actually ...
Brocade: VSPEX Gives The Channel More Options
Reliability is the prerequisite for advocates of the private cloud (or the modern data center depending on what you want to call it). It’s in contrast to the public cloud that views latency as a primary issue. The differences are significant and point to the deep differences of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) style cloud ...