Archive for ‘News and Events Related’

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Mar07

Commonwealth Bank of Australia Case Study at Cloud Connect

by Dave Roberts on March 7th, 2012 at 12:33 pm EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Uncategorized

Back in mid-February at Cloud Connect, I had the pleasure of presenting a case study about Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s (CBA) use of private clouds over the last several years. The session was well attended and well received, highlighting the industry’s overall hunger for in-depth case studies. (UPDATE Mar 8, 2012: It turns out this session […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mar06

Enterprise Cloud Or The Enterprise IT Industrial Complex?

by Derick Townsend on March 6th, 2012 at 6:11 pm EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Uncategorized

As described by President Eisenhower, the Military-Industrial Complex comprised major industries and technology supply chains that grew into a huge, self-sustaining bureaucracy that worked hard to protect its expensive, long-term contracts for non-standard offerings. Unfortunately, there are some similarities with today’s enterprise IT. Driven in part by vendor alliances, a lack of incentives to evaluate […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jun13

Recap of Cloud Computing Expo – NYC

by Derick Townsend on June 13th, 2011 at 6:00 am EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Uncategorized

ServiceMesh presented in general and technical sessions at Cloud Computing Expo last week. ServiceMesh’s Anthony Skipper was mentioned for having the best technical session of the week from other bloggers for his presentation entitled, “Cloud Scar Tissue: Real world implementation lessons learned from the early adopters” (download presentation). Anthony shared several enterprise customer experiences and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jun09

Industry specific solutions for Cloud – gimmicks or smart innovations?

by Derick Townsend on June 9th, 2011 at 7:02 pm EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Product, Services, Uncategorized

Last week, the commercial technology division of the New York Stock Exchange launched the “Capital Markets Community Platform”, which they described as the first industry specific cloud platform tailored for the financial services industry. Among other capabilities mentioned, this new IaaS offering leverages NYSE Technology’s unique access to global market data and low latency connectivity […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May19

Video Blog: Cloud SLAs and the Specter of the Unknown

by Mark Thiele on May 19th, 2011 at 4:59 pm EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Services, Uncategorized

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) can make people nervous. SLAs typically provide some level of performance guarantee and therefore offer a type of insurance against unexpected events. However, unlike life insurance where actuary tables offer fairly predictable life expectancy behaviors when applied to large pools of policy holders, the world of cloud infrastructure doesn’t have a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr28

Stop the AWS Lynching: A Sober Enterprise View of Cloud Failure

by Dave Roberts on April 28th, 2011 at 4:49 pm EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Uncategorized

Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a big outage. I mean BIG. Four days of problems, affecting untold number of sites, some of them major names on the Internet. One blog called it the “Amazonpocalypse.” In the cloud world, this was the equivalent of an H-bomb going off in your back yard.

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Apr26

“What are the hidden costs and risks of cloud, and how do I mitigate them?” – Q&A from the Trenches Series #5

by Mark Thiele on April 26th, 2011 at 12:29 pm EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Services, Trenches Series, Uncategorized

This is a great question, and one that many of us in IT tend to minimize when adopting new and more efficient technologies. Sometimes the simple cost savings calculations distract us: “If I can put twenty VM’s on one server and save $60K in overall cost of ownership compared to my previous environment, then I’m […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr19

Asia Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses

by Dave Roberts on April 19th, 2011 at 5:26 pm EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Uncategorized

Wow, that was quick! Previously, I wrote about how IANA had just allocated the last block of IPv4 address space to the regional Internet registries (RIRs). At that time, APNIC had just requested two /8 blocks, which brought the remaining number of /8 blocks down to five. By mutual agreement of the RIRs, that triggered […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mar04

Discerning Freedom and Servitude in the Growing Cloud Management Space

by Mark Thiele on March 4th, 2011 at 6:04 pm EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Uncategorized

There was an announcement by IBM earlier this week regarding updates to their Tivoli product portfolio. This update seems on the surface to offer current IBM customers with a nice new tool box of tactically focused capabilities to improve management of their virtual environments. Although there admittedly is little detail in these type press releases, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb01

IPv4: And we’re done…

by Dave Roberts on February 1st, 2011 at 2:45 pm EDT
Posted In: News and Events Related, Uncategorized

APNIC just announced that IANA has allocated to APNIC the last two allocatable /8 IPv4 address blocks. There are five remaining /8 blocks left, but looks like various RIRs have agreed that when this point is reached, each of the five RIRs is automatically allocated one of the remaining five /8 blocks. Thus, we’re done. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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