IBM CEO: We messed up last year but will do better
Ginni Rometty lays out her case for IBM as a standard-bearer for the next generation of computing, but she also acknowledges that 2013 wasn’t a banner year. Read more »
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Ginni Rometty lays out her case for IBM as a standard-bearer for the next generation of computing, but she also acknowledges that 2013 wasn’t a banner year. Read more »
Not all cloud infrastructure is the same, as David Mytton discovered when he started looking into Google Cloud. The service differs markedly from AWS and SoftLayer in these five key ways. Read more »
There are clouds and then there are clouds, but Taylor Rhodes would argue that cloud is just one of several deployment models that will be around for a long time. Read more »
Attending IBM’s Partnerworld Leadership Conference, I have been immersed in IBM plans for transforming itself based on a vision of a rapidly changing world for IBM itself and its clients. The characterization… Read more »
If your devops team is sick and tired of clicking from cloud status page to cloud status page, they might want to check out Server Density’s Ops Dashboard. Read more »
Taylor Rhodes, who was named Rackspace president this week, knows the cloud fight is on, but says we’re still in early days. Read more »
Infrastructure as a Service is growing at a significant rate. According to Gigaom Research, by 2014 the worldwide cloud market is estimated to grow 126.5 percent, driven by 119 percent growth… Read more »
The answer will surprise you. Colocation can be a much better option than cloud for certain types of applications. Read on to see why. Read more »
Big customers may want to use OpenStack but need hard metrics on how it performs in very large implementations. Mirantis and iBM are using Rally to fill that need. Read more »
Brace yourself. For established workloads, dedicated hardware is often a better and cheaper option than straight-up cloud deployment. Read more »