It’s all about apps they say. Who are they? I believe Apple started it, Microsoft and Google copied it. Now Cloud is changing the game, Again it’s all about apps. Driven by a changing workforce that expects access to its data anytime, anywhere, organizations are turning to a new, rapidly expanding generation of SaaS applications [...]

Is Big Data destined for only the top 3,000 companies worldwide? What about medium or small companies who are equally as data-driven? Is there a place for Big Data in SMB markets?

When I talk to SMB companies about their  use of public cloud services, it’s a no-brainer. Pay as you go, lower costs upfront, quick time-to-market. [...]

When a customer is deploying a Vblock Infrastructure Platform with VMware View or VMware vCloud Director, there is a consistent message that always arises, where do they run the virtual management infrastructure stack? View and vCloud come up on a regular basis, but this article focuses on any application that utilizes the Vblock as resources [...]

Synology announced the official start of the DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.0 beta program at CES 2012. CES is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow which is held in Las Vegas. Among several new features and improvements, Cloud Station is the major update. During this beta program, you are invited to test drive Synology’s newest NAS [...]

Happy New Year and welcome to 2012 and as is customary this time of year, I would like to start things out in 2012 with a New Year’s Resolution.  My resolution this year is to take the VMware VCP5 exam before the class requirement grace period comes to an end for all of us VCP4s.  [...]

EMC Avamar is a sourcebase global deduplication solution which enables fast, efficient backup and recovery by reducing the size of backup data at the client before it is transferred across the network and stored. Avamar’s data deduplication dramatically reduces network traffic by only sending unique blocks over LAN/WAN. Blocks that were previously stored are never [...]

MapReduce vs. RDBMS

People think that MR is this new transformative technology…..new? No. Transformative? Yes.

Although it might seem that MapReduce (MR) and parallel DBMSs are different, it is actually possible to write almost any parallel-processing task as either a set of database queries or a set of MR jobs.

When you look at the semantics of the [...]

I got a request internally for a simple step-by-step of how to deploy a vApp or VM from vCloud Director because the IT group has no experience with vCloud. I toiled on putting this blog article up because the simplicity is just, well, simple. Thanks to a few twitterati (@P2Vme, @angeloluciani, @jmichelmetz, and @mtellin) for [...]

All the best for a successful New Year!

Let’s look back to 2011. I had another great year working with storage and virtualisation. Not only on personal level but also a very successful business year.

EMC and VMware are committed to offering more and more services in the cloud. VMware does a great job with vCloud director. [...]

The speed at which technology changes is absolutely amazing in that as soon as you buy something, the next faster, bigger model comes out.  I think back to when I started my career and remember a workstation that I was using with a 200MHz processor and I was really thrilled when I got it bumped [...]