Category: Cloud

  • You Can Find Me in the Cloud with HubStor

    You Can Find Me in the Cloud with HubStor

    It’s funny. The last thing I posted here was on January 1st. In it, I mentioned that 2019 had been a hard year. How foolish I was before 2020 came into its own… In the midst of whatever all of 2020 will continue to bring, I’m pleased to be able to report some good news.…

  • Microsoft Enters Agreement to Purchase Avere Systems

    Microsoft Enters Agreement to Purchase Avere Systems

    Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase Avere Systems, a maker of software and hardware appliances that can perform filesystem virtualization, file-to-object gateway services, and allow customers to easily connect their onsite storage to public cloud storage. If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been…

  • The Virtustream MicroVM

    The Virtustream MicroVM

    Very soon after I joined Virtustream, I quickly realized that one piece of Virtustream technology in particular was something that was causing confusion for customers, prospects, and even employees — especially me as our group’s FNG (you know, the group’s New Guy). That technology was Virtustream MicroVMTM — often abbreviated as µVMTM. There has been so much…

  • Aparavi Emerges From Stealth with an SaaS Solution for a Multi-Cloud World

    Aparavi Emerges From Stealth with an SaaS Solution for a Multi-Cloud World

    Yesterday, Aparavi, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) start-up company, emerged from stealth with a SaaS offering for managing long-term data retention in a multi-cloud world. The company says their name is derived from the Latin word apparare which means “to prepare”. Now, I’ve never had any formal training in Latin, but my own research suggests that apparare…

  • Amazon Adds Per-Second Billing for Some EC2 Instances

    Amazon Adds Per-Second Billing for Some EC2 Instances

    Amazon’s per-second billing is now available for some types of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. Announced back in September, this billing model change went into effect on 2 October. Amazon Web Services (AWS) first launched their EC2 service in 2006. The success of AWS and cloud computing in general proves that there are uses for…

  • Job Search Successful — I’m Headed to the Cloud

    First things first: I want to thank everyone who has followed along and supported me during the recent job search. It’s meant a lot to me to know that I was never really alone during it. A special thank you to all of you who contacted me and acted as “connectors”, connecting me to people,…

  • Premise vs. Premises: A Modest Proposal

    Premise vs. Premises: A Modest Proposal

    If you’ve ever listened to, or been involved in, a conversation about Cloud, you’re familiar with the idea that the infrastructure that runs any specific cloud can be either on-premises (local or private cloud), off-premises (remote or public cloud), or a combination of both (hybrid cloud). If you’re familiar with that, then I feel safe…

  • Virtustream Launches Cloud Offering Designed for Healthcare

    Virtustream Launches Cloud Offering Designed for Healthcare

    Today, at Dell EMC World, Virtustream — the enterprise-class cloud provider company in the Dell Technologies family of businesses — announced that they are offering a new service called Virtustream Healthcare Cloud. This service provides cloud-based hosting of mission-critical healthcare platforms and applications in an environment that is completely compliant with all Health Insurance Portability…

  • Avere Systems Announces New Complete Storage Solution

    Today, Avere Systems announced its first complete storage solution. Avere is known for their Edge Filers that virtualize NAS systems and/or act as a file-access gateway to object storage. The just-announced C2N solution combines Avere FXT Edge Filers with Avere’s own new scale-out object storage platform. This combination allows the C2N to be used as…

  • IBM to Acquire Object Storage Vendor Cleversafe

    Yesterday, IBM announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cleversafe. Cleversafe is a manufacturer of object-based storage appliances. Cleversafe positions themselves as a software-based storage solution, but I’ve only ever seen their software available on the hardware appliances they sell. I’ve been impressed with the ease-of-use and robustness of the Cleversafe…