Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

Despite growing interest in “as a service” consumption models for everything from infrastructure to storage, most enterprises have continued to procure, maintain, and manage endpoint devices in-house. Analysts predict the market will then grow rapidly as more enterprises adapt to the model: from $51.7 billion in 2021 to $1.8

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 A slight majority of data already lives outside of the data center, and the day is not long off when it won’t even store the largest share of enterprise information. Data volumes continue to grow exponentially, and there’s no end in sight. ZB by 2026.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday unveiled a new no-code offering, dubbed AppFabric, designed to simplify SaaS integration for enterprises by increasing application observability and reducing operational costs associated with building point-to-point solutions. Availability across other cloud regions is expected to follow soon.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The frenzy created by the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has triggered an arms race among hyperscalers to differentiate themselves by developing their own large language models (LLMs), building platforms that enable enterprises to create generative AI applications, and integrating generative AI throughout their portfolios of service offerings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2024

In the automotive sector for example, the advent of autonomous vehicles has resulted in burgeoning demand for computing power, cloud storage and network bandwidth. With plans to expand, the company needed to upgrade its IT capabilities especially for storage and processing. One such automaker is China’s First Automobile Works (FAW).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The new Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a “reinvented” Amazon Fire TV Cube, will sell for $195, designed for enterprise customers to offer to their employees. Amazon Web Services executives say they decided to take the approach after hearing from enterprise customers that they wanted a low-priced device.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products. based enterprise AI company Clarifai as president and COO. Brian McCloskey joined Seattle data storage company Qumulo as senior vice president of North America Sales. .

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Until such time as CISA directs affected entities to rebuild the Windows operating system and reinstall the SolarWinds software package, agencies are prohibited from (re)joining the Windows host OS to the enterprise domain. through 2020.2.1 HF1, from their network. Additionally: a. CISA spells out 'grave impact' to U.S.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Acer has announced its Chromebook Spin 513 and Chromebook Enterprise Spin 513. The 513 will be available in North America in February 2021 starting at $399.99; the Enterprise Spin 513 is coming in March 2021 starting at $699.99. The Enterprise model has additional security and management features for business users.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

I had a chance to briefly use the new 2-in-1 Windows machine at Microsoft’s San Francisco office yesterday and found much more to like than dislike. It also doesn’t include upgrades from the base 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, or 11th Gen Core i5 processor (enterprise users have an option for an even less expensive i3).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

What I had been trying to do was to pitch and fund the needs that we inIT felt were urgent, such as new investments in networks, processing, and storage. Let’s say you need more storage to keep up with incoming data. Just asking for storage because you relay that you are running out won’t likely win funding.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Quick take: The Microsoft special to be held in New York will reveal new Surface devices and groundbreaking AI features for Windows, Office, Bing, and more. With the departure of Panos Panay, the former overseer of Windows and Surface, industry eyes are keen to see how Microsoft’s AI ambitions will evolve under new leadership.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Note that in Information Technology (IT) conversations there are multiple meanings for SMB including Server Message Block aka Microsoft Windows CIFS (Common Internet File System) along with its SAMBA implementation, however for this piece the context is Small Medium Business. A […].

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 14, 2009

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 NAS Network Storage for the Home and Advice for Device Manufacturers. Startups and Enterprises.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Now as I heard about best duplicate files remover tools before, it was a time to try some of these best tools to de-duplicate my device storage. It works on advanced algorithms to scan, detect & remove identical files even from the darkest corners of your system storage. The 5 Best Duplicate File Remover Tools for Windows.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Normally you’d see this sort of thing talking about Linux, but this one uses Windows throughout.). Virtualization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2022

Multivendor enterprise IT environments don’t spring up overnight. It’s not uncommon for individual departments to house several vendors’ compute, storage, and network platforms under one roof. John Gunther – Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Marianne Talbot – Hewlett Packard Enterprise. They tend to evolve over time.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This posts looks at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s). I was given the opportunity to do some hands-on testing running different application workloads with a 2U content solution platform along with various Seagate Enterprise 2.5”

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

inch Windows tablet with a detachable keyboard deck. The X12 Detachable comes with Intel’s latest 11th Gen processors and runs Windows 10 Pro. It comes with a Core i3-1110G4, 8GB of RAM (soldered), and 256GB of storage. With the ThinkPad X12 Detachable, the company is once again taking direct aim at Microsoft’s Surface Pro line.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Murano (a service for assisting in the deployment of Windows-based services on OpenStack). Inktank Ceph Enterprise. Ceph , the open source distributed software system, is now coming in a fully-supported version aimed at enterprise markets. Inktank Ceph Enterprise will include: Open source Ceph (version 0.67).

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud. This will let enterprises and/or service providers deliver Windows apps and desktops as a true cloud service from private, public and hybrid clouds for users on any device, anywhere.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

VDI: Windows application delivery. View is basically a way to deliver Windows desktop environment to any device because just like roaches, Windows is never going anywhere. This is your traditional VDI solution that allows you to deliver Windows application to any device via virtualized desktops residing in the data center.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

So, it’s pretty cool that you’ll be able to run Windows-based containers (via Docker) on Windows Server 2016; here’s an article that discusses using Packer and Vagrant to try it out yourself. What really caught my eye, though, was the size of the Windows Server Docker image (9.429 GB!).

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Scott Lowe

MAY 2, 2013

Apparently, by copying the keytab file from a Windows KDC (an Active Directory domain controller), the keytab is considered “foreign” because it doesn’t have the right security context. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Thanks Tomas!

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Assuming this is a fact, what does it mean when eighteen major OpenStack vendors come together to work through the challenges involved with achieving enterprise interoperability? Events at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona helped provide a window into the promise of tomorrow's interoperable environment.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

“My first job was as a software design engineer at Microsoft in the Windows NT team at that time (what is today the core Windows Operating system).”. My role was to develop the “Distributed File System” in Windows. Richter was previously a venture partner at Madrona and president of Isilon Storage Division of EMC.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. If you’re a real storage geek (or if you’re not but are having trouble sleeping), check out this USENIX presentation on erasure coding in Windows Azure storage. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 10, 2012

” Primarily this means how to handle Windows-based applications and managing Windows instances (like migrating to new versions of Windows). At 9:23 AM, Daniel Beveridge takes the stage to discuss new ways of addressing Windows-based applications. I’ll close the liveblog here. VMworld EMEA Day 2 Keynote.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

The VNC protocol is designed to be platform-independent, meaning that it can be used to access and control computers running on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others. The ability to access and control a computer using any operating system that supports VNC, such as Windows, Linux, macOS, and more.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” An OS is nice, but it’s just window dressing without the applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I won't walk you through the entire process, but select security and storage options that meet your needs. Windows: Cygwin, OS X: Terminal). Also note that Amazon Linux includes a lot of package dependencies (i.e. Java) by default. You will have to install these manually if you opt for a different AMI. Log into the box.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

First, he provides a high-level overview of Mesos ; that’s followed up by a slightly deeper look at Mesos, then a discussion of persistent storage and fault tolerance. Much ado was made about the Microsoft-Docker announcement a while back regarding the availability of Docker on Windows. Kenneth Hui has a nice series running on Mesos.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

It’s very difficult to imagine an enterprise Cloud that both would co-exist. The drivers for a Cloud provider selecting a Cloud management platform are different from an Enterprise selecting a Cloud manager. So, it is a consideration but we are just looking at traditional enterprise public Clouds on this post.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Also from the same folks is a version of cloud-init for Windows instances in cloud environments. By the way, have you heard about Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration ? If you’re looking to get some storage geek on, this is worth a read. See more details here. Want to run Hyper-V in your OpenStack environment?

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