by Rob Lyle | 11 Oct 2016 | Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Networking, Security, Storage, Virtualisation
My day-job in Langton Blue is helping clients fix messy, complicated problems in the manner of Winston Wolf – quickly, efficiently, with a minimum of fuss and bother. When attending exhibitions my name badge often reads “Problem Solver” to...
by Rob Lyle | 7 Jan 2016 | Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Security, Virtualisation
Disaster Recovery is in some way on every organisation’s agenda. It is no surprise that Gartner have now produced a magic quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3033519?ref=AnalystProfile&srcId=1-4554397745) What caught my...
by Chris Evans | 9 Jun 2015 | Virtualisation
Back in the 1990’s the battle for hearts and minds in the “platform” (the hardware and operating system used to run your applications) was the processor architecture. Sun had SPARC, IBM had Power (RISC-based) as well as z/Architecture, HP had...
by Chris Evans | 23 Mar 2015 | Virtualisation
This month, SimpliVity Corporation (www.simplivity.com) announced a Series D round of financing, raising an additional $175m for a total valuation of $1bn. To date, the company has raised $276 million in four rounds (press release). The money is to be used to fund...
by Chris Evans | 11 Feb 2015 | Cloud, Virtualisation
According to Adrian Cockcroft, ex Cloud Architect at Netflix and now with Battery Ventures, 2014 could spell the end of enterprise computing as we know it. According to the misquoted Mark Twain – “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”...
by Chris Evans | 16 Jan 2015 | Virtualisation
There’s been a bit of conversation recently on the intention of EMC to put drivers for their ScaleIO platform into the VMware ESXi hypervisor kernel. The discussion was triggered by an article published in LeMagIT on 25 November 2014 by Christophe Bardy and...
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