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Security Is Too Hard, But Lucrative

27 February 2023

Cyber security is a rolling binfire, but it’s also quite lucrative, so who can say if it’s good or bad?

DevOps Automation Platform Zeet Raises $4.3 Million

10 September 2022

Zeet, which bills itself as an “integrated DevOps and deployment platform for software developers” has raised $4.3 million in a seed round lead by Sequoia Capital.

Red Hat Focuses on Domesticated Open Source

16 May 2022

Red Hat insists on talking about innovation more than actually innovating at Red Hat Summit 2022.

NetApp’s Ongoing Reinvention

2 March 2022

NetApp continues its reinvention into a cloud services portfolio company, which is still very much a work-in-progress.

Tape Lives! At Fujifilm

31 January 2022

Fujifilm has a new (-ish) product called Fujifilm Object Archive that they showed off to use at Storage Field Day 22. It’s basically AWS Glacier but for inside your datacentre.

VMworld 2021: A Strategic Overview: Multi-Cloud All The Things

13 October 2021

VMware has chosen multi-cloud as the central core of its strategy, and it is using a lot of confusing all-things-to-all-people messaging in trying to sell this strategy.

DR to VMware Cloud on AWS with Site Recovery Manager

12 May 2020

VMware has added DR capabilities to VMware Cloud on AWS with Site Recovery Manager support.

Backblaze Launches S3 Compatible API With Veeam, Quantum, and More

5 May 2020

Consumer backup target and cheap storage company Backblaze has added an S3 compatible API to its B2 product.

Cloud Maturity Brings Efficiency Focus

10 July 2018

Success in cloud can be expensive and optimizing spend without compromising on performance is tricky. Densify hopes its software tools can help organizations to find the right answers.

NetApp Finds Its Cloud Feet

25 April 2018

NetApp appears to have turned the corner and finally found a solid story to tell about its cloud plans.

Microsoft Makes Clear Play For Mission Critical Cloud

10 April 2018

Microsoft open new Azure regions for Australian government data. Is this a new front in the cloud wars?

Stratoscale Launches Chorus As On-Site AWS

22 November 2017

Ahead of AWS re:Invent, Stratoscale launches Chorus to give you a suite of AWS compatible services on your own site.

VMware Gets Its Mojo Back At VMworld 2017

30 August 2017

VMware has stopped apologizing for existing and has gotten its mojo back.

DigitalOcean Adds Load Balancers

21 February 2017

Justin takes a look at DigitalOcean’s new Load Balancer feature.

DigitalOcean Hatches New Startup Incubator

8 September 2016

DigitalOcean announce a new incubator called Hatch for its community of startups.

Walmart Makes It Easier To Switch Clouds With OneOps

26 January 2016

The latest shot in the cloud wars is Walmart open sourcing OneOps, to help customers switch clouds whenever they like.

Is Cloud The New Outsourcing?

29 November 2015

Is moving to the cloud the new IT outsourcing? And are we making all the same mistakes?

Analysis: Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion

12 October 2015

The news is everywhere, and has been for days: VMware currently trades as. Background The implications and details of this deal are legion, and there is a wealth of detail out there, good and bad, so I’ll point you at the commentary I think is most worth bothering with rather than re-hash the same stuff here.

AWS Outage Doesn’t Change Anything

20 September 2015

If the latest AWS outage changes anything in your approach to cloud adoption, then you’re doing it wrong. This is not the first AWS outage (I first wrote about one in 2011, back when I had hair), nor will it be the last.