We are curious about which cloud or clouds everyone uses, as the market is rather diverse, ranging from Amazon Web Services to clouds based on OpenStack, VMware vCloud, and community clouds that meet specific needs. Are you using multiple clouds, just one cloud, or no clouds? We’d like to hear your answers to these questions. We …
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IBM Releases a New Mainframe
In this day and age of cloud computing, this article’s headline may come as a bit of a shock to many of you. Yes, the mainframe is still a thing. And IBM’s newest is a beast of a machine, capable of over 2.5 billion transactions a day, with real-time encryption built in.
Is the Cloud Just So Many Legos?
I was recently looking at LegoTM parts, and I started to consider the myriad of LegosTM and the broad categories they fit within. Then I had a thought. Is the cloud just so many LegosTM? SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and DaaS are various categories of clouds. We could call them the fundamental building blocks or bricks …
And the Walls of Marriott Crumble Like Jericho
If you can remember the dim and distant past of late 2014, I wrote about Marriott’s blocking of personal MiFis, positing that its reasons for doing so did not really hold water. Now, fast-forward to January 14, and it seems my rant was more powerful than I thought:
Citrix Sanbolic Acquisition Rounds Out Virtualization Suite
Citrix has reached for the checkbook again, announcing that it has snapped up virtual storage purveyor Sanbolic. In doing so, it has completed its lineup of virtual infrastructure technology building blocks.
The Internet of Things: BlackBerry?
How big of a future will the Internet of Things have in the cloud? At the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, vendors of all shapes and sizes shared their products and roadmaps for the future. One such report came from BlackBerry, a company we don’t hear much about these days. BlackBerry announced the rollout of its …