Posted by Mark Campbell
Pay attention. There will be a test at the end. 🙂 Why should you care about Dell buying EMC? Because of its impact on VMware. Because of its impact on vCloud Air. Because this is just the l...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
In the midst of the fallout from Dell’s announcement that it would acquire EMC, Michael Dell was forced to publish a blog post in which he promises: We intend for VMware to remain an independent pub...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Amazon announced at AWS re:Invent 2015 that AWS is now a $7.3B business with more than a million active customers. Amazon AWS growth year-over-year was reported at 81%. This includes: Amazon AWS gro...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
VMware at VMworld 2015 (US) showed a technology preview in which they used VMware NSX within Amazon AWS EC2 instances. This allows NSX to operate within AWS via SDN (Software Defined Networking) �...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Backup and disaster recovery is the #3 planned use case for the public cloud and the #1 planned use case for the private cloud. AWS is the #1 public cloud. Why is the backup and disaster recovery c...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Yesterday we reviewed a high-level cost comparison of cloud storage from Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Today we’re going to look a little more deeply at the cloud provide...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Last week we discussed at a high level Amazon’s new storage offerings and pricing in our post “AWS vs Google: Cloud Wars – The Empire Strikes Back.” In this post we’re going to do some...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Does AWS Glacier and S3 Price Cut to Less than Penny Signals Cloud Wars? Or Is it a Drop in the Bucket? Amazon AWS announced this morning its long-awaited answer to $.01 per gigabyte per Google�...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
You already know how incredibly easy it is to get a replicated VM up and running in an AWS EC2 instance by simply clicking the “Deploy Now” button on a Protection Group. But what if your ent...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Network World’s Brandon Butler had a good wrap-up of VMworld 2015 entitled “A dozen takeaways from VMworld 2015.” I thought the assessment that VMware’s unified hybrid cloud is mostly a privat...Read More