[caption id="attachment_11341" align="alignleft" width="187"] Weakest link[/caption] Several weeks ago I penned a blog on “Converged, Is It a Fad or Real” regarding the adoption of Converged Systems. This spawned a discussion amongst some vendor sales and marketing teams in regards...
Read More »“Avoid vendor lock-in” has been a mantra for a long time by other vendors and marketing promotions. Vendor lock-in is equated to a lack of choices or an impediment to making a change in the future. The lack of choices...
Read More »May 21st, HDS rolled out their announcement on Your Cloud, Your Way. What makes this interesting, was not necessarily the elements, rather a change in how HDS is talking to the market. Cloud, Your Way incorporated the elements of “How...
Read More »There are many opinions regarding how to handle information storage for big data analytics. By big data analytics, I’m referring to information associated with a data analytics operation that does the analysis in near real-time to present immediately actionable results. The most...
Read More »Like many people in the high tech world, I don’t usually pay attention to the latest entertainment gossip. But while watching the news recently at a hotel, I found myself barraged with information about Katie Holmes deciding to leave Tom...
Read More »Today, April 29, 2011, Amazon Web Services released a "summary" of its EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) and RDS (Relational Database Service) disruption in its U.S. East Region. This came approximately one week after what appears to be a classic...
Read More »EMC has announced it will acquire Greenplum, a data warehousing and business analytics software firm for an undisclosed sum. EMC will use this acquisition to form the basis of a new Data Computing Products Division led by Bill Cook, CEO...
Read More »There's been a general outcry lately about how vendor marketing organizations are abusing the cloud by force-fitting many new and existing products into the cloud computing mold. Still, some cloud-like things actually do fit without the aid of a crow...
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