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There has been a spate of acquisitions in the cloud space, as companies are trying to fill holes in their service offerings. Recently we’ve seen NaviSite snatched up by Time Warner, CenturyLink buy Savvis, and OpSource go to DimensionData (owned by NTT). …
The Services Angle on VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Suite
Three years ago, VMware CEO Paul Maritz announced his intention to build what he called a “Software Mainframe.” What did that mean? It meant that VMware engineers (2,000 of them) were going to build a software platform that was: 1) highly scalable …
Technology Services: A Market in Transition
A Market Primer: How Cloud Computing, the Rise of India and the Consumerization of IT are Changing the IT Services Business The market for technology services is changing dramatically, driven by macro forces of cloud computing, virtualization, mobility and data growth. In …
Google Brain Drain Continues: Nirvanix Lands a New CTO
Paul Froutan, the former head of global data center infrastructure at Google has joined cloud storage provider Nirvanix as its new CTO. Froutan, who resides in Houston, TX, spent four years at Google and was responsible for five of Google’s data centers, …
NetApp CEO Tom Georgens has a Plan to Outpace EMC: Can the Momentum Continue?
Tom Georgens is one of the leading execs in the storage industry. As the CEO of NetApp and former executive at Engenio and EMC he has a deep perspective on the storage business. My partner John Furrier and I interviewed Tom on …
Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud…What’s in a Name?
As it turns out, a lot. Recently, a growing number of suppliers have begun talking about hybrid clouds. The idea is that you can get the best of both cloud worlds. That is, the security, reliability and control of an on-premise solution …
Parting of the Clouds
Back in 2007, Wikibon warned its members to read the fine print in cloud SLAs. At the time we were discussing Google’s terms with enterprise customers when we stated: Google’s SLA terms do leave lots of wiggle room for the consumer giant …
Cloud Storage: Separating the Contenders from the Pretenders
Since 2006, when Amazon introduced its Simple Storage Service (S3), organizations concerned about security and service levels have been eagerly waiting for a viable marketplace of storage services to emerge. The industry lately has been doing sort of a replay of 1998-2001 …
NetApp’s Engenio Acquisition: A $2B Windfall for Investors
When NetApp bought LSI’s Engenio division, many questioned the merits of the move. After all, NetApp is the poster child for unified storage and has built a multi-billion dollar business around WAFL, the Write Anywhere File Layout. NetApp’s entire storage portfolio revolves around WAFL …
Customer Care in the Era of Big Data
How may I, in all servitude, be of assistance? A good friend of mine shared this story with me recently. It has major relevance to the big data trend that we’ve been covering and in particular the concept that we’re moving from …