Next July 1st will be remembered as the date of the price war between the big names in Cloud Services relating to Storage services. Microsoft Azure: from July 1st, upload costs will be zero Amazon: from July 1, data transfer costs between regions will be zeroed Other companies such as GoGrid, have always offered inbound […]
If there was still someone who did not know of the existence of something revolutionary known under the name of Cloud Computing, now with the announcement of Apple iCloud surely in everyone’s mind this Buzz Word, now a term sold off and mistreated by most, will be present. iCloud ranks among the Cloud storage systems […]
At the kind invitation of Microsoft, we participated in this very interesting three-day Full Immersion course in the classroom at Microsoft’s premises in Segrate, on the Microsoft Window Azure Cloud Computing platform. The course is part of a new and strong marketing strategy by Microsoft on Azure to introduce Microsoft’s PaaS platform to developers and/or […]
Observation of the Cloud Provider market and the market of server, networking and storage equipment, makes us reflect on the farsightedness of some strategies. The well-known Moore’s Law: “The number of transistors per chip doubles every 18 months”, which corresponds to an increase of about 60% in the RAM and CPU of our servers, has […]
On November 23rd, an event of the Microsoft tour was held in the Byte room of Città della Scienza in Naples to bring to the attention of companies the reality of Azure, Microsoft’s Cloud Computing of the PaaS and SaaS type and soon also IaaS. The first part was presented to us by Fabio Scotti, […]
We continue with the large acquisitions. This is the turn of EMC on Isilon, a large entity known to most as a storage system vendor, acquires Isilon, which we talked about in 2008, a strong reality in cluster storage systems. The growth in the demand for scalability in storage, not only in the amount of […]
3PAR Inc, known to most for its canary yellow storage systems on a black background, has been sailing with a stock on the stock market for at least ten years that has remained stable at $10, but never rose above $15. Now, after the first acquisition proposal by Dell and the very recent proposal by […]
Telegraph and Salesforce united for democracy and transparency. Debate2010, a democratic tool provided to citizens to propose ideas, vote on the ideas of others, look at what citizens are thinking, what is a priority for citizens, share ideas on social networks. This is Debate2010, born from a union of forces between the British Telegrah and […]
On February 22-24, Parallels, the largest hosting software vendor, at its annual summit in Miami , presented the first bare-metal hypervisor for Xserve Mac OS X, a solution soon embraced by GoDaddy to launch a new VPS based on Mac OS X. I was wondering in a Hypervisor market where the leadership is VMware (ESX4 […]
On February 1st, Microsoft announced the availability of the Azure Cloud Computing platform in 21 countries and declared the testing phase over, therefore no longer free. •Austria • Belgium •Canada • Denmark • Finland • France • Germany • Ireland •India • Italy • Japan • Netherlands • New Zealand • Norway • Portugal •Singapore […]