Archive for the ‘Industry Happenings’ Category
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
‘Meraki’ may not be the best known name in networking, but their technology is going to touch you soon if it hasn’t already. Meraki was just acquired by Cisco in November for a cool $1.2 billion to incorporate into their new Cloud Networking Group.
Cisco is predicting explosive growth in cloud ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012
While most may not see Microsoft as a ‘disruptive innovator’ anymore, they seem to be claiming exactly that role in the enterprise hypervisor space, just as they did in gaming with the Xbox. As noted in "VMware, the bell tolls for thee, and Microsoft is ringing it", Hyper-V appears to ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012
By Ethan Culler-Mayeno, Integration Engineer
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
~Benoit Mandelbrot
The cloud, as seen by the end user, is a wondrous tool full of seamless functionality ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2012
Kablooee! That was the sound I (and many others) heard coming from one of Amazon Web Services (aka, the "cloud") availability zones in Northern Virginia on June 30th (http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/amazon-outage-netflix-instagram-pinterest/, http://gigaom.com/cloud/some-of-amazon-web-services-are-down-again/). The sound was a weather-driven event causing one of Amazon's data centers to lose power. And what happens when a ...
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Well it actually turns out it was completely full. When MSPmentor picked up the story about LogicMonitor going to the San Diego VMUG to talk virtualization monitoring, they chose a photo of a surfer riding a giant wave to accompany the article. We thought it was in reference to San ...
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
So as everyone knows, Amazon rebooted virtually all EC2 instances in December. They emailed people to notify them, but not everyone read the emails, leading to Amazon performing the reboots on their own schedule, with the customers unaware.
For some SaaS companies, this resulted in many hours of downtime. For others, ...
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