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Burst local and securely with HP CloudSystem
4, Nov 2011When it comes to cloud technology, one of the biggest advantages a cloud brings is the ability to expand and retract on demand. This ability allows IT shops to meet the needs of customers and not miss revenue opportunities due to downtime, sluggish performance or overloaded server outages. This capability does not come without security [...]
Returning from HP Cloud Tech Day
28, Oct 2011I am currently sitting in Atlanta airport waiting on my flight to return to Myrtle Beach. I am returning from Houston, TX, where I have been on-site at HP’s facility to learn more about cloud and HP’s CloudSystem in particular. Although cloud was our primary focus, we also spent some time looking at other innovations [...]
- In: Blogging|Cloud Computing
- Tags: blogging, Cloud Computing, CloudSystem, HP, Travel
The future is all about (cloud) apps
29, Sep 2011After having a month to reflect on the organized chaos that was VMworld 2011, one message still stands out to me most of anything we heard during that week. VMware conveyed loud and clear that apps, and more specifically the frameworks and middleware to enable cloud apps, are the big area of innovation for the [...]
The Political Challenge of Moving to the Cloud
31, Aug 2011The way that I see it, VMware is up for a political fight in many of its customers’ IT departments. Two things have become evident to me this week at VMworld 2011 – first, moving to the cloud is going to involve rewriting a lot of our applications and two, this is going to to be as [...]
All IT solutions will experience problems at some point in their life. Supporting IT solutions is difficult, time-consuming and costly, but also a fact of life – a fact as a systems administrator I am thankful for. It means, I have a job. Problem solving skills are absolutely necessary, but all administrators need the expert [...]
Simplify. Eliminate duplication of effort. Reduce costs. Play to your core competencies. Standardize. All of these are themes I have heard in my own company as we have looked at ways to improve our IT operations. Like many companies, we try to form a plan of where our IT operations should move, motivated by making [...]
A potential service provider’s take on CloudSystem
14, Jun 2011Day to day, I work for a telephone company, though we are really much more – we sell cable TV, wireless, landline, Internet, security and home automation. [Disclaimer - these are my views and not theirs.] We have tossed around the idea of becoming a public cloud provider more than once. Last week, during HP [...]
- In: Cloud Computing|Conferences|HP|HP Discover
- Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Conferences, HP, HP Discover
Next week, while I’m occupied at HP Discover in Las Vegas, Steve Jobs and company will be busy with their annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. And, as confirmed by Apple PR this morning, Jobs and Co. will be unveiling the latest iterations of its operating systems, Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5, [...]
- In: Apple|Cloud Computing
- Tags: Apple, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Keynote, WWDC
SafeCopy: My answer to the Mozy changes?
10, Feb 2011I got a comment on my recent Mozy post which offered SafeCopy as an alternative to Mozy. When my current subscription to Mozy ends, I’m certainly in the market for a more favorable solution to meet my needs. Mozy’s new plans, in my opinion, do not offer enough space for the price they charge and [...]
When Apple last refreshed the Mac Mini line, it introduced a new version with Mac OS X Server preloaded that also dropped its optical drive in lieu of dual hard drives. This new configuration is quite popular according to a recent post on AppleInsider. That leads me to wonder and speculate about what could be [...]
- In: Apple
- Tags: Apple, Cloud, Cloud Computing, iLife, iPhone, iTunes, OS X Server, server, speculation, Wild Speculation