1. Organizations will stop throwing big money at big storage The cost per GB of cloud storage will fuel the growing realization that the days of making million $ investments into privately managed, top tier SAN storage are coming to an end. 2. Tiered storage, and smarter use of storage tiers will become a standard [...]
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Lately I have been noticing an accelerating trend (albeit completely anecdotal) of web services starting to imitate one another. The followers start to look like the leaders, or they adopt the best practices proven by the leaders as their own, and these pretty soon become industry standards. Take for example the meteoric increase in Facebook [...]
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An important part of most discussions about clouds is an analysis of costs. People are strongly driven to try to reduce the costs of their burdensome infrastructure, particularly when a large part of it is almost never used (the DR provisions), yet is as costly as the primary in some cases. Most technical people we [...]
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Lately some of our customers have been asking us to provide more interactive feedback features. Of course we think this is a great idea. In fact we have under development (and scheduled for release in late July) a comprehensive support area within the Cloud Console. In researching other options we have decided that in addition [...]
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One of the things I consistently hear as I talk with clients about Disaster Recovery, is that it’s complicated. This whether the client has invested heavily in DR or not. In many cases people might have made substantial investments in technology and duplicate infrastructure and have some highly skilled people on the team – yet [...]
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I am working with a small team on a presentation /debate for ILTA 2010 where we have a booth this year. The topic for discussion is: ILTA 2010 – INFO13: No Dark Clouds in the Forecast: Addressing Risks in Cloud Computing This session will address the challenges and risks law firms face with the movement [...]
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