Are you currently using the cloud as part of your IT strategy? With a
wide variety of options and services available from several different
public cloud services, you may be thinking about how to evol...
Public clouds have outages – that’s a fact. Regardless of whether the
cloud is down due to network issues, power outages or even human error,
it can take a while for the cloud service provider to trou...
Software was eating the world but now it’s all about the information
Marc Andreessen wrote his software is eating the world article a few
years ago and today it is likely that no one will take a contr...
The clamor over the impending European Union (EU) General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) has raised awareness of regulatory
compliance to the boardroom level. One way or another, we’re all going
to...
Veritas Technologies announced a new storage appliance—the Access 3340.
It’s a couple of servers with a bunch of disks attached. Amazing! Let’s
start from the beginning. You know, the tsunamis, erupti...
Disaster recovery in the cloud is a hot topic for many organizations.
I’ve talked with IT executives that find it exciting, because it
promises cost-effective, on-demand infrastructure, but also daunt...
Did you know that organizations experience 22 minutes of downtime/month
on average in the cloud? (you can read more about that here – The new
truth in cloud) Most cloud service provider legal contract...
We’ve all heard about the growth in data—the explosions and tsunamis—the
exabytes and zettabytes and yottabytes (oh my!). While this staggering
rate and volume of data growth is impressive, what does ...
Following the announcement during Vision 2014, we have launched Disaster
Recovery Orchestrator! Disaster Recovery Orchestrator enables businesses
to automate and manage disaster recovery of Microsoft ...
I was fortunate enough during my many years in the military to have been
assigned to fixed-base communications units, meaning it was only on rare
occasions that I had to choke down those infamous MRE ...