Posted by Mark Campbell
A tale of two surveys, one by Solarwinds, the other by Unitrends. In December 2015, Solarwinds surveyed 257 IT professionals in the US and Canada as the basis of its IT Trends Report 2016: The Hybrid ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
World Backup Day is just around the corner – an event that celebrates the importance of protecting our data. Those of us interested in Boomerang know the importance of backing up our VMware VMs (an...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Three orders of magnitude – 1000X – over seven years. When you talk about bacterial growth, that’s slow. When you’re talking about a business, it’s an incredible number. Netflix has se...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
SimpliVity recently decided to market itself against Amazon AWS. It was an interesting marketing move. The hyperconverged infrastructure vendor’s chief rival, Nutanix, tends to market itself aga...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Apple, AWS, and VMware. Last fall, Apple jilted VMware in favor of KVM according to industry publication CRN. Now a Morgan Stanley analyst has speculated that Apple may be dumping AWS over the ne...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Last week Microsoft released a technical preview of Azure Stack. What is Azure Stack? To quote Microsoft: Azure Stack extends the Azure vision by bringing the cloud model of computing to every da...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Is there an Amazon AWS tax? Or is AWS the exact opposite – a subsidy? I’d argue the latter – that AWS and the other hyperscale cloud providers (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[This is a companion post to VMware, Containers, and Backup that can be found at the Unitrends blog site. The background for VMware containers is given in both; where they differ is the AWS-relate...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
It’s no surprise that the “all on premise” hardware and software vendors are under attack from the New Age cloud companies. Many continue to promote the rationalization of their conventional v...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
MEDITECH and Amazon AWS is enabled by the virtualization of MEDITECH – and by Boomerang. To understand this, read on. At VMworld 2015, there was a good breakout session on HCA using VMware vSphere...Read More