Apple and Google: is it a marriage that has to be done? Newspapers and specialized information sites all over the world, from the international Financial Times to the more “homely” Sole 24 Ore, are going crazy with the news that Apple would have entrusted part of its iCloud services, i.e. cloud storage services, to the […]
It is worth mentioning the storage virtualization solutions that Compellent, a US company based in Minnesota that works in the field of storage solutions of considerable thickness, has arrived. Acquired by Dell for $960 million in December 2010. We would like to point out: Live Volume It’s like a storage hypervisor, a volume mapped from […]
On October 4, 2011, Red Hat announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Gluster, an open source storage cluster software system headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and developed in Bangalore, India. Gluster technology provides capabilities that make it a good fit for Red Hat’s cloud computing strategy. Red Hat is actively engaged in […]
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 […]
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 […]
EBS : Elastic Block Storage, one of the web services that we believe is fundamental for a self-respecting cloud computing infrastructure, now allows booting. What is EBS: A service capable of creating a storage volume that we can link to an EC2 server instance, is defined as persistent to differentiate it from the storage with […]
Participation in the 2-day training course preparatory to the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification for the new vSphere 4 platform, held at HP’s Rome headquarters by lecturer Mario Russo. Course Outline Module 1: Introducing the Next Generation of VI Highlights Next Generation enhancements by component and reviews upgrade tools and strategies. Module 2: Infrastructure Administration […]
We attended this dutiful event in the beautiful Sheraton Golf2 Hotel in Rome. Below is the agenda: 9.30 Registration of participants 10.00 Welcome and opening of the meeting Luigi Marcocchia, Softway 10.10 How to harness the power of virtualization to transform Data Centers into simplified cloud computing infrastructures, capable of providing advanced, reliable, flexible and […]
The proliferation of datacenters, the number of under-used servers, the delays and complexity in designing and implementing a reliable and scalable multi-tier infrastructure, the need of companies to no longer want to worry about the infrastructure, to no longer want to keep “in-house” system engineers and architects useful only at certain times, are finally developing […]
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