Tag Archives: Storage
Cloud FAQs: OpenStack Storage (Swift) – Basics Q & A
We get a lot of inquiries from clients, potential clients, friends of the family, and strangers, particularly about cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Recently, we had someone ask us a series of questions about OpenStack Storage (Swift). Given that the … Continue reading
AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy
Most everyone in the blog ecosystem has missed both the point and some of the economics of AWS Dedicated Instances that were recently announced. Folks like The Register focus on how a single virtual instance can cost $109,324 for a year … Continue reading
Deep Dive on VMware vCloud by Orran Krieger
Discovered, by happenstance, an interesting presentation by VMware’s Orran Krieger on vCloud. Really great information in here about VMware’s perspective on cloud computing, their cloud trajectory, and the vCloud architecture. This looks like a recent undiscovered gem for folks trying … Continue reading
Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?
As a new market or technology emerges there is always a search for new, hopefully better, nomenclature to explain and differentiate. Cloud computing infrastructure is as much a victim of this search as anyone else. Some consider “cloud computing” to … Continue reading
Challenges for Cloud Storage
I had a great time presenting on the challenges for cloud storage today at the SNIA Winter Symposium ’09 event. It was my first GoGrid-related presentation and it went very well. A very technical audience though, so there is actually … Continue reading