There is no denying that the future of cloud is not just with a single provider, capable as Azure, AWS and the other public providers are. For true data protection, your information needs to be in three separate locations, and with the rise of data sovereignty, there is a need for data to be kept within …
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When IT Comes Apart: A Case of Failure
What do you do when everything fails—not just typical application failure, but failure of more than one subsystem all at once? Recently, I had such a failure. The air-conditioning plant failed, and the new 10G switch failed, causing a loop that brought down the entire storage network. Then, the storage redundancy failed due to a …
Putting the Horse before the Cart
The image below is one that I’ve seen shared a few times. It makes me laugh each time. Like all good jokes, it has a seed of truth, and layers of deeper meaning, whether or not you believe that private cloud is a dead horse that we should have long since stopped flogging. There are …
Recent Announcements: This Is New December 2017
Past and current partners have made a number of end-of-year announcements that have crossed our news desk. Some convey significant changes, others incremental changes. Some even herald complete turnarounds in direction. Starting with this article, we plan to bring you a monthly synopsis of the announcements our news desk receives. Without further ado, here is …
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The Best of 2018
It is now time for us to look over the past year and put together our “best of” compilations. However, I want to change that around and look at the best of 2018. Yes, next year. Pulling out my crystal ball, I see there is quite a bit to look forward to. 2017 was a …
Higher and Higher: Will the Bitcoin Rise Ever Stop?
There is a Jackie Wilson song from 1967 called “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher.” I wonder if the financial world’s love affair with the cryptocurrency based on blockchain will ever stop lifting Bitcoin higher and higher. Bitcoin, the first of the major cryptocurrencies, is at the time of this writing trading at …
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