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 th...Read More
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
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
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
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