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HDS aligns its unified computing strategy with Microsoft; takes on Cisco/EMC
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:29 am
With Hyper-V as a bold statement in its partnership, HDS is making clear that it does not want to be left behind. HDS has now signalled it is entering the lists against the VCE coalition and its V-Blocks (VMware, Cisco and EMC), HP and its Matrix, IBM and Oracle with its app-to-storage integrated stack. Dell [...]
Read More >>Unified Consumer Experience in homes by Apple with HDTV plans; US market alone $31 Billion!
By Tarry Singh at 24 March, 2010, 4:53 am
Apple is indeed in unique position to get into a lot more than what is detailed in the article and thus ending up jeopardizing many big players such as Cisco, Tandberg (which Cisco wants to buy), Wii etc etc Let’s look at all other possibilities that puts Apple in this unique position 1. Online SOHO Experience [...]
Read More >>Microsoft Azure to drive Cloud revenue in 2010
By Tarry Singh at 6 February, 2010, 8:37 am
The www.kbb.com web site serves some 14 million monthly users and requires two data centers. Its preferred method of operation involves running a primary “hot” site, then backing it up with a secondary “warm” site which can be used in disaster recovery scenarios. However, since there is relatively good uptime at the primary site, the secondary [...]
Read More >>HP confirms the MSFT love by building Hyper-V and LeftHand appliance
By Tarry Singh at 15 January, 2010, 5:04 am
HP is planning to develop a Hyper-V version of its VMware-based LeftHand Networks virtual storage appliance (VSA). VSA is LeftHand SAN/iq software packaged to run as a virtual machine under VMware. Like SAN/iq itself it turns direct-attached storage (DAS) on its server, or PC, host, into storage area network (SAN) storage. Groups of servers can [...]
Read More >>Google Chrome OS: Dawn of the Cloud Computing era!
By Tarry Singh at 23 November, 2009, 3:14 pm
I guess you may have read our research paper where we describe the fundamental shift from Daap–>IaaP. This is what Google is bringing to us. This is perfect timing from Google. When founders Sergey and Larry approached Eric Schmidt on their grand plans to develop an operating system for the internet, he was a bit [...]
Read More >>RightScale to support Microsoft Azure!
By Tarry Singh at 17 November, 2009, 11:47 am
MICROSOFT PDC09, LOS ANGELES – Nov. 17, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced planned support for the Windows Azure platform. This support will enable customers to deploy RightScale-managed applications to Windows Azure and take advantage of the unique properties offered by the Windows Azure platform. RightScale’s intent to support [...]
Read More >>CapGemini about to lose a €230 Million contract; Unstable Data Center the main reason!
By Tarry Singh at 16 November, 2009, 7:34 am
Unstable Data Center was the main cause for this possible reversal of the large contract. Before anyone jumps to conclusion I must say this at the defense of all large outsourcing parties that these are truly difficult times. We really need to hire quality staff very soon. Large outsourcing firms have double challenges when they [...]
Read More >>Google’s Director of Enterprise Solutions Interviewed; Cloud Computing plans unveiled
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 3:24 pm
Interview is kind of corporate like and boring and thus interesting to the black/white corporate guys Q: Does Google have a name for its cloud computing platform? Glotzbach: Where we really started in terms of a commercialized offering, in what I would call “cloud computing,” is our product suite that we refer to as Google [...]
Read More >>Amazon’s Cloud to rain on Asian enterprises by Q1 2010
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 2:18 pm
Amazon, Google and Apple obviously are poised to be on our upcoming market report slated to be published on 4th Jan, 2010. The greatest thing these all companies have is speed. They can get to any part of the world , including their customers, at a much faster pace than anyone else. It is this [...]
Read More >>Hey Cisco! HP just bought 3Com for $2.7 Bn cash!
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 2:09 am
My keynote last night at a University — where we covered enterpreneurship, Cloud Computing and taking the charge in your own hands — where couple of biggies from Media and Entertainment industry were there, there were many interesting insights shared by reknowned experts and it was real fun. Cisco came also as a company to [...]
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