I, along with many others, witnessed this week (or was it last week?) a public squabble between two well-known vendors in the virtualization market. Of course, this is nothing new. The whole world has been watching as Adobe attacked Apple (and Apple responded) over Flash support on the iPad. Before that, of course, America...
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I am hearing a lot about the rise of a concept called ‘devops’ – a mashup of ‘development’ and ‘operations’. I am not at all an expert in this area, but from what I can tell, devops is aimed at streamlining rapidly iterative application delivery to allow for greater development and business agility. Devops...
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For those who have asked, and others who may care to know – the rumours are indeed true. After many happy years leading the fantastic systems and storage management team at one of the very best IT industry analyst and consulting firms, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), I have moved on to take up an...
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There is a perennial debate in cloud computing about whether a failure of one cloud service provider can be more generalized to a ‘failure of cloud computing’. It is an important question because availability is a key decision factor in choosing between private and public cloud, and between public cloud providers.
The most recent example...
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Someone recently asked me why I was starting a blog, and why I was doing it now.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I had for a long time steered away from Social Media – blogs, Twitter, etc. – for a number of reasons. But I am of the increasing belief that many of my...
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