Posted by Mark Campbell
Is Ransomware a disaster?  Most who have been targeted would say that it is.  Those that have bee struck will tell you that it’s a particularly cruel type of disaster.  Just how bad is it?  Th...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
HP gives up on Helion.  Who benefits the most?  My guess is that Amazon AWS will receive more than its fair share of benefit from HP Helion’s demise.  The parallel here is the money that has repo...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
A customer who recently purchased Boomerang for DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) reached out yesterday who wanted to know what we thought about nested virtualization of VMware vSphere within Ama...Read More
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
Is Dell buying EMC an example of their fighting the last war – in particular with respect to the cloud?  In another post, I called out the tactical implications of the mega-acquisition by Dell of E...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Amazon AWS Snowball (the full name of the service is AWS Import/Export Snowball) was announced at AWS re:Invent 2015  last week.  Snowball is large hardware storage platform for mass transfer of da...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%. Â This includes: Amazon AWS gro...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
A buyer last week who was considering both Boomerang and another replication solution for Amazon AWS asked me what I thought of systems that had zero dedupe (deduplication) and asked me to compare i...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) â...Read More