If Google and Microsoft Chase Amazon, IT Will be Big Winner
As I was reading Liz Ganne’s preview of Google I/O on All Things Digital this morning, one thing popped out at a me: a small blurb about Google getting into the cloud infrastructure business. Could Google be going after Amazon’s EC2 business? And according to GigaOm, it’s not just Google. Microsoft could also soon be in play as well with an Infrastructure as a Service offering. If these rumors are true (and it’s never official until it’s announced), hold on tight, boys and girls, because prices could be about to dive. Can you imagine these three companies going...
read moreGetting Beyond Big Data Hype to Understand the Data
It’s clear that we’re collecting more data, but the question is to what end? Whether it’s web analytics, web performance analytics or any other type of data, it doesn’t do us any good until we actually make use of that data to learn something. And it makes sense that at least some of that data analysis is going to take place in the cloud. Why? Because the cloud can scale like crazy and there’s one thing we know about Big Data is that it’s big and just getting bigger all the time. That requires storage and processing power and analytics. That’s why...
read moreCloud Computing Could Give You Shelter From Storms
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm” ~Bob Dylan, Shelter from the Storm. One thing we have learned over the last year or two is that disasters can strike anywhere. When the earthquake hit in Japan last year, lots of data centers were no doubt put out of commission for at least a period of time. When a freak October snow storm struck Massachusetts last Fall, some places were without power for more than a week. And the disasters seem to be happening with increasing frequency. How can you as an IT Pro protect the data side of your business? Well, the answer could...
read moreAmazon Proves Cloud Competition Good for IT
Last week Amazon Web Services announced that it was dropping its prices. According to a post on ZDNet, this was the 19th time in 6 years that Amazon agreed to drop its prices and it’s another case of the price of technology services going down — a trend that has to make any cash-strapped IT executive smile. It’s probably a big contributing factor as well as to why Amazon is the number one cloud service provider in the world. How big? Very big. According to a post on GigaOm, analyst Huan Liu from Accenture estimates that the Amazon Elastic Cloud service encompasses an...
read moreBad Stuff Can Still Happen to Prepared Companies
It happens to the best of companies. You might have all your monitoring bases covered and all your carefully crafted disaster plans in place, but sometimes no matter what you do, outages happen. If you doubt that, look at the world’s biggest cloud companies, the ones whose livelihood depends on being up and you’ll see they have some very well-publicized outages. Unlike say Amazon, Google or Microsoft, yours might not be so public, but it doesn’t mean the people affected are any less frustrated. The difference is your users probably aren’t on Twitter complaining and the...
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