Tag: Cloud
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EMC Announces VMAX Cloud Edition
Today, EMC announced the Cloud Edition of their signature Symmetrix VMAX storage platform. Timed to coincide with the VMware Partner exchange conference, there have been rumors about this announcement for a while, but now we’ve got some details. Release of a product of this nature is another indicator of an overall change that’s been occurring…
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EMC Announces Joint Isilon/Syncplicity File Sharing Solution
Today, EMC announced the availability of a joint solution for Syncplicity online file sharing with Isilon scale-out storage. OK, you’re thinking, what does that mean? What it means is the easy availability of enterprise-class private cloud shared storage. Yes, private cloud shared storage. It’s a subtle — yet very significant — distinction. To explain what…
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BYOD Presentation – Tuesday 2 October
On Tuesday 2 October, I’ll be giving a presentation titled “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) — The Next Evolution of Computing”. I’ll be doing this as the guest speaker at the Greater Boston Network Users Group monthly meeting. The topic is an exciting one to me. With the proliferation of mobile devices everywhere (I myself…
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GeekFluent’s Top VMworld Session Choices
Are you going to VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas and finding yourself a little overwhelmed trying to select which sessions to attend? Don’t worry — it’s happened to all of us. There’s a lot of great content this year (as always) and it can be challenging to choose. To help you out, I offer: GeekFluent’s…
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CloudSlam 2011 Multi-vendor Panel on the Future of Storage for the Cloud
I had the opportunity last week to sit in on a CloudSlam multi-vendor panel session on the future of storage in the cloud. It was a very interesting and revealing discussion. I’ll do my best to summarize it here and share my thoughts and conclusions. What is CloudSlam? CloudSlam is a virtual conference, an online…