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Time travel only goes one way

8 August 2022

State of the cloud news, tech company markets movements, plus a bunch of chip fab news.

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.

VMware’s Developer Play

9 February 2022

The change in marketing leadership at VMware indicates that the company has had enough of trying to convince developers to get interested in infrastructure and wants to try a different approach.

Infrascale Recovery For SMBs

2 February 2022

Infrascale provides a feature-rich set of products for SMB data protection and recovery needs.

CTERA Global File Sharing With Modern Security

1 February 2022

CTERA’s global filesystem is designed for secure, distributed data sharing in a multi- and hybrid-cloud world.

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.

Pure Storage Portworx Data Services

28 September 2021

Portworx Data Services promises a t-shirt size picklist of databases as a service. But will customers use it properly?

Google Acquires CloudSimple To Bring VMware Customers To Its Cloud

18 November 2019

CloudSimple is currently the main mechanism for running VMware on Azure and GCP, while VMware on AWS is jointly engineered between VMware and AWS.

ClearSky Data Raises $20 Million To Fuel Expansion

26 November 2018

Storage-as-a-Service vendor ClearSky Data raises $20 million to fund its expansion across the USA.

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.

Scale Computing Gets Cloudy With Google

28 September 2017

Scale Computing has partnered with Google to launch Cloud Unity, connecting on-site HCI clusters with ones in the cloud.

VMware Gets Its Mojo Back At VMworld 2017

30 August 2017

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

Veeam Goes Hard After The Enterprise

17 May 2017

Veeam is aggressively going after the enterprise as it transitions from an SMB focused company. But it risks losing its soul in the process.

Animal Logic Chooses Its Own Datacenter Over Cloud

11 May 2017

Animal Logic chose to stay with its own Schneider Electric supplied data center instead of going to cloud, and for good reasons.

SwiftStack Cosies Up To Google, Goes Multi-Cloud

8 March 2017

SwiftStack collaborates with Google to promote its multi-cloud approach to object storage.

DigitalOcean Adds Load Balancers

21 February 2017

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

Data Control In A Multi-Cloud World

27 January 2017

Do you control who can access your data, where and when? To design modern IT systems, it’s a question you need to answer.

Containers Are The Future But The Future Isn’t Finished

16 November 2016

Containers are the future, but there is still a lot of work to be done to make them good.

DigitalOcean Hatches New Startup Incubator

8 September 2016

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

Cloud Hangs Over IBM After Australian Census Catastrophe

10 August 2016

The IBM designed system for the Australian Census 2016 has failed in spectacular fashion.

Nutanix On Collision Course With SMB HCI Vendors

26 May 2016

Nutanix goes down-market to target SMB, but will the split in focus undermine profitability?

Dell Releases OS 10 for the Open Networking Era

20 January 2016

Dell has released its latest networking operating system, OS10, designed to decouple the software from the hardware.

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?

ClearSky Data Raise $27 Million For Cloud Storage Service

2 November 2015

ClearSky Data want to turn data storage into a utility service you rent from the cloud, but which is nevertheless available everywhere you are. It’s an ambitious goal.

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.