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News and Analysis
Data Center Operators Flock To Cold Climates
Service providers such as Microsoft are building new data centers in cold locations such as Finland to cut power and cooling costs.
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Architectures
Your Cloud Future Is In China
Can we expect that cloud hosting will be focused on China within 10 years? The infrastructure, the money, the central planning and their enviable access to resources make this inevitable. And why not? In the great marketing machine that surrounds cloud computing, the claim is that your data can be anywhere and that compute power should not be close to you, nor should you even care. And as China moves from agrarian subsistence to manufacturing and then onto a tertiary economy, it will be positioned to move into a services economy. Indeed, the country is doing so already in a range of areas. It seems clear that with access to capital, town planning and labor it is not so hard to conceive that China will be better positioned to be an early mover in the cloud marketplace.
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Reviews & Workshops
Digital Hoarding: Do We Have a Problem?
Approximately 2.8 zettabytes of data were created and stored in 2012, and that number is expected to increase 50-fold by the end of the decade. When does data storage turn into data hoarding, and what are the consequences?
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Blogs
Nirvanix Killed By Unforgiving Cloud Economics
September 19, 2013 10:07 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Cloud storage provider Nirvanix, which is closing its doors, ran afoul of harsh cloud financing models.
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Data Protection In The Cloud Era
September 18, 2013 02:06 PM
Posted by Tom Trainer
Organizations need to review security policies and procedures before implementing newer technologies such as cloud computing and virtualization.
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Hardware Vs. Software: Storage Vendors Go Head-to-Head
September 13, 2013 05:12 PM
Posted by Tom Trainer
Don't count hardware storage vendors out as the industry shifts to software-based infrastructure. Hardware and software vendors are making moves that promise storage innovation in both traditional infrastructure and SDI.
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The IT Generation Gap
August 30, 2013 12:31 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
VMworld panel exposes a rift between innovative startups focused on cloud, mobile and social technologies and old IT that clings to its data centers and self-managed applications.
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New Technologies Target OpenStack Private Clouds
August 16, 2013 02:05 PM
Posted by Tom Trainer
Companies like Druva aim to address data center and private cloud storage and data management challenges using the OpenStack framework.
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NAS Options for Public and Private Clouds
August 15, 2013 02:16 AM
Posted by Tom Trainer
Public and private clouds can present challenges for file-based applications that use NAS. Here's how several vendors are helping companies meet those challenges.
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