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Contributor Content | How to Keep Cloud Projects on Track
Despite the many terabytes worth of words that have been written extolling the virtues of cloud computing, even the most forward-thinking organizations face an obstacle course in getting cloud projects...
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Contributor Content | The Importance of Data Portability and Data APIs
A recent experience that WibiData had with one of our vendors got me thinking about the importance of data portability and data APIs. We recently decided to change providers for one of our hosted...
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The Personal Cloud | Local Storage Isn’t Really Local Any More
Distributed caching is woven deeply into the architecture of the Web. And local storage isn't really local any more. Implicitly or explicitly it's just one of the ways we cache our personal clouds,...
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Contributor Content | Are You Ready for Software-Defined Everything?
The hottest buzzwords in IT technology today are software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined storage (SDS), and software-defined data center (SDDC). These are part of a broader trend that we...
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Contributor Content | IT Forecast: Empty Private Clouds
When asked about cloud computing in an interview, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison once ranted, “Cloud is water vapor,” and then pointed out that cloud computing is simply “a computer attached to a network.”...
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Flash Storage Networks: The Time Has Come
Today’s PCIe flash devices are reminiscent of the days where servers had Direct Attached Storage (DAS) to manage both persistent and random data access. As storage requirements increased, Storage Area...
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Dropbox Not So Spooky After All
Dropbox seems to be the poster child for all that is bad and scary about the cloud. IT is haunted by Dropbox (and really all file sharing apps for that matter) as it discovers that enterprise employees...
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The Era of Protecting by Enabling
IT managers today are on the forefront of information delivery services. Users are demanding highly available and secure data transfers that are flexible enough to serve them on the road and multiple...
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Organizations Turn to New Data Center Technologies to Drive Innovation
In today’s computing business environment, everyone is looking for more: more computing capacity, more storage, more data transfers, and more bandwidth. To remain static is to fall behind; therefore,...
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The Rise of the Personal Cloud
I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions, but I do have a prediction for this year: 2014 will usher in the rise of the personal cloud. The “cloud” is bandied about endlessly in technology. Everything is...
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