The Clouding Cloudification of “CLOUD”
Remember that scene from the movie Being John Malkovich when he enters his own mind and everyone looks like him and speaks only, "Malkovich...Malkovich, Malkovick?" That's how I felt at Oracle Open World a few months back... "Cloud? Cloud the Cloud, Cloud, Clouding...
Partner We Like: 6connect
The industry has been talking for nearly a decade about IPv4 address space running out and it's never happened... until actually just a few months ago when it DID happen. Prior to this though, some brilliant friends of mine over at 6connect (Richard, Aaron, Pete, and...
Roundup Nov 27
We haven't done one of these in a few weeks - We've been super busy! 🙂 So for this week, we're doing a combined roundup for the last 2 weeks. Here is your Headline Roundup for the weeks beginning Nov 27, ending Dec 13. Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT has agreed...
Case Study: New Australian PoP
Let's say you're a scaling online backup/storage company based here in the states that's starting to grow into regions outside of the USA. You've got a kick ass sales and marketing team in place in this new region, and now you need to setup some infrastructure locally...
Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors
Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible. Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed...
Roundup Nov 7
Here is your Headline Roundup for the week beginning Oct 31, ending Nov 4. Next Generation Data has prepared the top floor of its massive facility in Newport, Wales to house containerized data centers - more Peerless Network has signed a long-term lease with Server...
Roundup Oct 31
Here is your Headline Roundup for the week beginning Oct 31, ending Nov 4. Facebook is reducing the number of backup generators by 70 percent at its new data center in Sweden - more Calxeda has unveiled low-power server technology adapted from cell phones that will...
Roundup Oct 24
Here is your Headline Roundup for the week beginning Oct 24, ending Oct 28. Equinix introduced the Equinix Marketplace, a new service that makes it possible for the companies populating its data centers to find business opportunities among the 4,000 other Equinix...
Roundup Oct 17
Here is your Headline Roundup for the week beginning Oct 17, ending Oct 21. Cologix launches, offering carrier neutral colo in four markets - more PEER 1 opens Portsmouth datacenter - more Level 3 announced an expanded set of media and broadcast services that combines...
Definition of Cloud Computing
Friends, I just came across a document entitled "The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing" released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a division of the Department of Commerce.  Other than being an organization I've never heard of before (and I'm...