At the recent NoSQL conference in San Jose, California, I had a chance to chat with Scott Jarr, cofounder and chief strategy officer of VoltDB. I wrote an overview blog where I touched on VoltDB, and this is a detailed version of my conversation with Scott. Scott Jarr When I was researching the NoSQL segment, [...]
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Amazon cloud storage options enhanced with Glacier
In case you missed it, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced their cloud services (Elastic Cloud Compute or EC2) along with storage offerings. These include Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB, Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Simple Storage Service (S3). Enhancements include new functionality along with availability or reliability in the wake of recent events (outages [...]
How NoSQL Relates to the Energy Business
Recently, I watched the Soft Grid conference, put out by GreentechMedia via Ustream, and was pleasantly surprised that many smart grid and utilities people talked about Big Data and cloud computing. Then I went to the 2012 NoSQL Now conference, where I interviewed five companies and sat in on several of the sessions there. I [...]
Join Zen Kishimoto August 16 in a Webinar about Data and DCIM
Come and join me August 16 for a panel discussion of “Do More Data Make DCIM More Effective in Designing and Managing Data Centers?” Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) has been given a lot of attention in the past few years. I think we are moving from “What is DCIM?” to “How do we deploy [...]
Google Compute Engine: Infrastructure as a Service
As is well known, there are three types of cloud computing: software as a service (SaaS), such as Salesforce.com; platform as a service (PaaS), such as Google App Engine; and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), such as Amazon’s AWS. Google has been in the PaaS space but recently dived into IaaS. A great thing about [...]
Where Is IT Going and What Impact Will That Have On Data Centers?
At the recent DatacenterDynamics conference in San Francisco, the last session was a panel discussion on where IT is headed and the effects of that on data centers. Because my chair duty was over by then, it was the only session I could attend other than my own track. Because a lot is going on [...]
An IT Guy’s Take on ASHRAE’s Recent Guidelines for Data Center ICT Equipment
ASHARAE is a professional organization and according to their website: ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is a building technology society with more than 50,000 members worldwide. The Society and its members focus on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality and sustainability within the industry. Through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education, ASHRAE shapes tomorrow’s [...]
Come and Meet Me and Other Speakers at DatacenterDynamics’ San Francisco Conference
This is short notice, but I would like to encourage people to come and join me at the DatacenterDynamics conference on July 17 in San Francisco. There will be five tracks or halls on different themes. I will chair Hall 2, whose focus is IT. Of course, the discussions will be on IT in conjunction [...]
What CIOs Need to Know about Cloud Computing
It is not too difficult to understand what public cloud is and why it is useful to have it. You outsource all the necessary computing and storage needs to somewhere else. On top of that, you pay only for what you use. And you use it as much as you want when you have a [...]
A Chat with Kevin Malik, CIO of IO Data Centers, on DCIM
Coming from IT, I find a data center a fascinating place where facilities and IT coexist, but they can use closer communication with each other. When I started to cover the data center segment some four years ago, people I met at data center conferences and meetings asked me if I was on the mechanical [...]
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