National Control: the Issue of Data Sovereignty
What nationality is your data? It might sound like a funny question, but in these days of multinational companies, data in the cloud, software as a service, and worldwide replication, it’s deadly...
View ArticleCitrix, VMware Square Off for Cloud Virtualization
Today was a big day for people interested in both virtualization and the cloud, with Citrix buying Cloud.com and VMware announcing what it said was a cloud infrastructure platform. The two...
View ArticleWhy It’s Dangerous to Rely on the Cloud — At Least, If You Use Comcast
It’s not always fun to be right. Less than three weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the downsides of backing up to the cloud vs. backing up to one’s own storage, talking about several potential problems,...
View ArticleWhat Nationality is Your Data, Round Two
A group of major U.S. vendors such as Google, Microsoft, Citigroup, IBM, and GE, working under the aegis of the National Foreign Trade Council, is urging the United States to fight for trade rules that...
View ArticleHeck With Nasuni’s Top 6; Let’s Hear the Bottom 10
Maybe people like to hear about losers? That’s the conclusion after Nasuni Corp. released its State of Cloud Storage Providers Industry Benchmark Report. Over a period of 26 months, the company...
View ArticleWhere’s the White House Going to Put All That Data?
While the White House released its digital government plan last week, it appears to have left out one major factor: just where the heck all that data is going to be stored, especially when storage...
View ArticleGoogle Docs Adds Offline Support
In a move that has been expected for the past month — and desired for much longer than that — Google has made it possible for Google Docs users to edit documents offline and then synchronize them when...
View ArticleCloud Storage Proves Not So Resilient After All
Oh, hey, just put all your stuff in the cloud. It has IT people to watch it and take care of it, and if there’s any sort of problem, it’s replicated in other places so you’ll still have access to it...
View Article3 Things the New York Times Data Center Story Left Out
Certainly this won’t be the only blog post calling New York Times writer James Glanz to task for his features on data center power use. But there were three specific areas that he missed out on....
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