Good post by Brandon Riley (thank you)
This past week, I had the good fortune of attending Storage Field Day 3 (SFD) in Denver, Colorado. Field Days are events where a group of independent IT professionals chosen by a committee of like-minded people are brought together with start-ups, and mature companies who have new, innovative products.
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Posted by rogerluethy on May 3, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/one-blox-to-rule-them-all/
Join storage experts from Cisco, EMC, and NetApp as they discuss the impact of the ISO standard: Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) on cloud storage. They’ll share real-world, vendor-agnostic use cases that demonstrate innovative ways to leverage cloud storage. Attend this webcast to get fresh insight on cloud storage.
Speaker : Seth Mason, Alex McDonald, Wayne Adams, SNIA
When : April 18, 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm GMT / 7:00 pm CET
Register here for the Webcast
Posted by rogerluethy on April 10, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/expand-your-cloud-storage-options-cdmi-use-cases-examined-snia-webcast/
The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is an industry standard on its way to ISO ratification. There is now an open source reference implementation available from SNIA as well. Storage vendors and Cloud providers have started announcing their implementations of the CDMI standard, demonstrating the reality of interoperable cloud storage. This talk will help you understand how to keep from getting locked into any given vendor by using the standard. Real world examples will help you understand how to apply this to your own situation.
Speaker : Glyn Bowden, Director, Lucr & SNIA Europe
When : April 17. 2013, 5:00 am PT / 8:00 am ET / 1:00 pm GMT / 3:00 pm CET
Register here for the BrightTALK Webcast
Posted by rogerluethy on April 10, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/interoperable-cloud-storage-with-the-cdmi-standard-snia-webcast/
Good post by Enrico Signoretti (grazie !)
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about object storage and NAS. As a follow-up, this time I would like to go on with my rants and try to explain why I think that Object storage is a good option as NAS backend and why it could be a big leap forward in how you can exploit the real value of your data.
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Posted by rogerluethy on April 9, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/files-vs-objects-the-difference-is-in-the-value/
Good read by Amrita Premrajan (thank you)
Alyssa Henry, VP for Storage Services, Amazon Web Services, tells us how companies like Yelp, Instagram, Pinterest, and Dropbox, Nasdaq and Newsweek are building their businesses using AWS services
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Posted by rogerluethy on April 5, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/enterprises-are-using-cloud-as-a-platform-to-store-data-and-run-big-data-analytics/
Good post by James Kobielus (thank you)
Nothing screams “speed of business” quite like in-memory technology. On Wednesday, March 27, I participated in an IBM Twitter chat with analysts, influencers, thought leaders, fellow IBM-ers and others on this very topic. The event took take place from 12-1pm EDT and used hashtag #bigdatamgmt. (You can catch us bi-weekly – starting again April 17 – on Twitter at this time using that hashtag.)
Here are highlights from the discussion. Note that I’m using edited versions of the questions that the moderator (the all-knowing @IBMBigData) asked. And I’ve correlated and edited the participants’ tweeted responses for legibility. I’ve removed the most egregious Twitterese and, where it makes sense, I’ve concatenated particular individuals’ tweets through ellipsis marks in order to call out the larger point they made. But I’ve endeavored to retain the jazzy shorthand tweeting style characteristic of this shadowy underworld.
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Posted by rogerluethy on April 2, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/how-in-memory-technology-is-transforming-big-data/
In this presentation, Sameer Farooqui (thank you) is going to introduce the Hadoop Distributed File System, an Apache open source distributed file system designed to run on commodity hardware.
Posted by rogerluethy on March 26, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/hadoop-tutorial-intro-to-hdfs/
Good post by Martin Glassborow (thank you) on the new EMC VMAX Cloud Edition
So EMC have finally announced VMAX Cloud Edition; a VMAX iteration that has little to do with technology and everything to do with the way that EMC want us to consume storage. I could bitch about the stupid branding but too many people are expecting that!
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Posted by rogerluethy on March 13, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/tiny-frozen-hand/
Post by Karen Dela Torre and John O’Rourke (thank you) from Oracle
According to Gartner Research1, 80 percent of Fortune 1000 enterprises will have paid for Cloud computing services by the end of 2012. In these austere times, the ability to save costs (a big driver for cloud computing) is particularly welcome but as some organizations are discovering, the Cloud offers transformational qualities for certain business processes that extend well beyond the simple advantages originally envisioned by the transition to the Cloud. Chief among these is the budgeting process, and even ERP seems set to benefit disproportionately from what many commentators often dismiss as simply a change of delivery platform.
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Posted by rogerluethy on March 7, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/planning-and-erp-in-the-cloud/
Good post by Arik Hesseldahl (thank you)
The open source software for running cloud computing installations just got a big new name in its camp: IBM.
Big Blue announced today that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.
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Posted by rogerluethy on March 4, 2013
http://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/ibm-makes-a-big-bet-on-openstack-in-the-cloud/
