Entries categorized under “IaaS”

Many businesses either rely on in-house custom software or purchase and customize commercial software packages to meet their mission critical business needs. Unfortunately these approaches are failing to meet the needs of enterprises as they demand faster development and deployment times for these apps. To address that challenge, a new group of vendors in the cloud promises to improve these mediocre mission critical business processes by speeding up development/deployment cycles while reducing the total cost of ownership of enterprise applications. (read more)

A convergence is happening in the cloud service provider space. More cloud-based archive and backup providers are evolving to account for transactional/production data while managed service providers want to extend their reach into the archival/backup space. One company at the forefront of this convergence is cloud service provider American Internet Services (AIS). Today I talk with AIS's VP of Network Engineering, Steve Wallace, about how this convergence is impacting cloud service providers in general and AIS specifically. (read more)

Dell has made a number of acquisitions over the last few years as it seeks to transform into a storage company. But after attending Dell Storage Forum in Boston this past week it is evident that it is well down the path of becoming something far more compelling than just a "storage" company. It is on track to becoming an infrastructure company. (read more)

It is what almost every Windows IT admin envisions someday implementing in his or her environment: "The ability to recover any or all of their applications in the cloud by having the flexibility to quickly move them to the cloud and bring them up as needed." The trick is how to realize that dream without breaking the budget. This week that dream moved closer to becoming a reality with Symantec and Microsoft stepping up to the plate and announcing a strategic relationship to extend Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows to the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform. (read more)