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When I had time to kill between meetings in Tokyo, I dropped by a major bookstore near the Tokyo Station. In the computing book area, I found a special section on cloud computing. Like in the U.S., cloud computing is getting a lot of attention in Japan. The premise of cloud computing is easy access ...
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New applications and an evolving organizational environment drive enterprise bandwidth growth and a need for predictable, stable, real-time performance. A new generation of enterprise application Web front-ends and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, plus the move to direct-to-Internet branch...
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As 2009 draws to a close, I would like to ponder each element in the title of this blog. The information sources are my blog posts and others’. I will talk about data center market trends in this blog and treat the rest of the subjects later.
Regulatory pressure on data centers
The U.S. House ...
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Because I cover Japan as well as the U.S., I often talk with Japanese data center operators about their interests. In these Internet times, some U.S. news is delivered to Japan instantly, but they want to talk to real data center operators and experts to find out how things are in their day-to-day o...
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In recent data center conferences, one thing that attracted my attention was cloud computing. For most people on the facilities side of the data center, cloud computing is pretty new. One keynote speaker emphasized the importance of cloud computing, and data center operators should take notice of it...
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I had an opportunity to meet with Victoria Livschitz, CEO of Grid Dynamics.
When I do research on the cloud computing space, I see a lot of cloud computing providers. However, I think you cannot use the services without some expertise. Livschitz was OK with my saying that Grid Dynamics is a system i...
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Andy Parham, CEO of Bick Group, delivered the keynote speech at Data Center World.
In short, he said that a tremendous number and extent of changes are coming to the data center segment. To emphasize his point, Parham used two examples. The first was alternating current’s takeover of the power...
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Are all clouds equal?
The UK’s SaaS “expert” Phil Wainewright, @philww, points to another online survey to make the claim that you are less safe, data wise, with a cloud provider, than you are with servers on premises. Not so fast, says Chris Hoff. When I asked Chris to blog on...
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Why is it so hard to understand that cloud computing cannot exist without physical data centers somewhere? Maybe I am different, but I would feel more comfortable knowing my computing is being handled in a real building and by a set of IT gears run by ample power and cooling. If someone told me not ...
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I know it’s early in the game and skepticism is a healthy thing but the concerns over cloud security seem a bit overblown these days. What appears missing from much of the conversation is discussion about the fundamental shifts taking place.
The issue boils down to the transition from location...
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Editor’s Note: Asad Imam is a graduate student in the United Kingdom studying E-Business and Information Systems. He recently wrote a study about the cloud computing market. Footnotes appear at the end of the study. We have also written a summary of his report, which you can view here.
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Editor’s Note: Asad Imam is a graduate student in the United Kingdom studying E-Business and Information Systems. He recently wrote a study about the cloud computing market that we are publishing over the next three days. In part one, Asad explores the traditional challenges that cloud computi...
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During my flight to Japan last week, I spent eight hours reading: Grow a Greener Data Center, by Douglas Alger of Cisco. The rest of the time I spent thinking about a hypothetical discussion about the energy efficiency of cloud computing.
Let’s assume that all the speakers are from local companie...
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If you did not know what an elephant was, could you describe it by just touching it? According to Wikipedia, the story of the blind men and the elephant originated in India.
(My use of the word blind is just for the sake of metaphor. I intend no discrimination or disrespect to visually handicapp...
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Blue Coat works with managed service provider partners to implement the underlying infrastructure that delivers managed services for multi-protocol label switching (MPLS). With the increasing shift to Web-enabled applications and SaaS solutions hosted in the cloud, greater application awareness, int...
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