By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 7, 2013
A sad truth in our industry is CIOs don’t often get fired for not being innovative. But they do get fired for major data or security breach or business continuity failure. In spite of that it is a bit concerning how IT risks keep exploding. Here are some: There is growing acceptance that most commercially […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Anti-virus, backup, InformationWeek, IT risk management, Risk management, security
By R "Ray" Wang on April 25, 2011
Amazon’s Cloud Outage Catches Most Clients Offguard The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the confidence of some executives on public cloud computing. Most notably, FourSquare, HootSuite, Reddit, and Quora publicly suffered visible performance issues. […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, Apps Strategy, backup, bill of rights, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, disaster recovery, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, Foursquare, high availability, hootsuite, IBM Blue Cloud, license management, license policy, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Private Cloud, Private Clouds, public cloud, Quora, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Reddit, rwang0, Vendor Selection
By Bob Warfield on April 24, 2011
I’m reading through Twitter streams, Amazon Forums, and other news sources trying to get a sense of how users are responding and what their problems are. It’s pretty appalling out there. B2B companies admitting they have no recent backups and just have to wait for it to come back online. A company that claims patient’s […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, backup, Cloud, Cloud Computing, outage |
By Zoli Erdos on March 1, 2011
A few hundred thousand (numbers range from 150k to 500K) Gmail and Google Apps users had the scary experience of losing ALL their email content yesterday. Their account was accidentally “reset”. Google acknowledged the error, and issued a statement that they are working on restoring “lost” content. Let’s stop and think here a minute. Is […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged application software, backup, data backup, email, Email client, gmail, google, Google Account, google apps, Hotmail, Internet Message Access Protocol, outlook, zoho mail, Zoho Office Suite
By Merv Adrian on November 4, 2010
The Data Computing Appliance, first deliverable from EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, was announced last month, only 75 days after the acquisition closed, and it doesn’t lack for ambition. Pat Gelsinger, EMC CEO, pointed to the high level opportunity: unlocking the “hidden value” of enormous and growing data assets every company is increasingly holding, and often […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Aster Data, backup, Cisco, data load, Data replication, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, DBMS, deduplication, Dell, EMC, Exadata, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, intel, MPP, multicore, oracle, ParAccel, rack, RDBMS, RecoverPoint, recovery, SAN, server, Storage, Sybase IQ, terabyte, Teradata, Vblock, VCE, Vertica
By Merv Adrian on June 16, 2010
Microsoft’s SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) has been eagerly awaited for a long time. It still is. Though much of the news at the BI Conference running in parallel with TechEd in New Orleans (discussed here) was generally quite good, the PDW story was much less so. It’s late, and it’s not all there. […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged backup, Bull, control node, Data Management, Data Warehousing, DatAllegro, Dell, EMC, Hardware platforms, hp, ibm, Industry Trends, Infiniband, microsoft, MPP, Parallel Data Warehouse, PDW, SQL Server, SSIS, T-SQL |