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
Posted by Mark Campbell
Please visit our more recent post here I had a few people approach me at VMworld yesterday concerning Zerto and AWS. I was honestly surprised at what I learned. To recap: the other day I wrote a ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
I was asked to give a talk at VMworld 2015; the title of my presentation was “Confidence in an Uncertain World with VMware, Unitrends, Amazon, and Google.” In the discussion I warned that VM...Read More