The article below is the second of two articles on Cloud Pricing; the first article is available on our website here. By 451 Research analyst Owen Rogers. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- Cloud pricing 201: appraising the application Previously, we have used the analogy of a hotel to show the pricing structure of compute …
Compliance: Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Pop quiz: Do people in power always follow the rules established for their organizations? Bonus question: Are these same people in power the ones we ask (demand, really) to sign attestations that their organizations are doing everything that they are supposed to be doing from a compliance perspective? Interesting topic because it combines “Do as I say, not as I …
Big Data Is Bad Word for Big Brother Google
Summary article by Pam Baker in FierceBigData, original article by Antonio Regalado in MIT Technology Review. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———- Google says ‘Shhh, don’t say big, just say data’ Vendors are still comfortable with saying “big data” in public these days, but many of their business customers would rather not utter the term …
Go Big (Data) or Go Home
News flash: those who invest more than others tend to yield bigger gains. And not just in dollar terms, but in organizational commitment too — the “adapt or die” mentality. Summary article by by Pam Baker in FierceBigData and original article by Satya Ramaswamy in Harvard Business Review blogs. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– …
AIS Infographic: 10 Fastest Supercomputers
This just in — the latest AIS infographic! The computer has become one of the most ubiquitous tools in everyday life, but supercomputers blow even the most advanced desktops out of the water. Comprised of tens of thousands of processors working in conjunction, supercomputers are capable of crunching numbers at astounding speeds. These massive machines perform quadrillions of calculations per …
IBM vs. AWS: The World Has Changed
In case you needed convincing that the world with cloud services is different than our previous reality… “When IBM is the cheaper option by a wide margin, it is safe to say the world has changed.” Article by 451 Research analyst Carl Brooks. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— AWS and the fed: a tale …
IBM CTO Dishes on DR and Cloud
What does a CTO-level guy at one of the world’s largest IT services companies have to say about Disaster Recovery and leveraging the cloud? Read on. Article by Paul Mah in FierceCIO. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———- One on one with Richard Coccihiara of IBM Tips and suggestions for enterprises on disaster recovery, how …
Sky Fall…ing? Supply Chain Disruption
Intuitively we all understand how new technologies can “disrupt” traditional delivery models and economic value chains. The Internet itself is Exhibit A in this regard; just ask travel agents and bookstore owners. Even those within the Internet industry itself — namely the gear-makers that make it all go — are not immune to the havoc of changing market dynamics. Analysis …
InfoGraphic: History of Web Hosting
I saw the massive infographic below in The WHIR and figured our readers would like it too. Enjoy, Brian ——— ProfitBricks Infographic: Web Hosting from 1995 to Today ProfitBricks is an infrastructure as a service company with serious hosting chops: the company was started by the founders of web hosting giant 1&1 Internet, and hosting veterans William Toll and Clint Miller …
Cyber Security: Seeing Is Believing — and Understanding
We all know that the speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound; witness lightening and thunder. Similarly, when it comes to information synthesis, it’s not hard to understand that the speed of visual pattern recognition is much faster than the speed of reading, correlating, and absorbing disparate data in multiple formats. This is the future. Summary …
