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Bernard Golden (@bernardgolden)
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- Vice President, Enterprise Solutions for enStratius Networks, a cloud management software company. Cloud blogger for http://CIO.com
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- Silicon Valley, California
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- http://www.hyperstratus.com
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James Hamilton on his boat, Dirona, docked at the Wakiki Yacht Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo: Kent Nishimura/WiredOn a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, knocking out the facility’s main source of power, and about 15 minutes later, James Hamilton just happened to pull into the parking lot.It was a serendipitous moment. Hamilton is the Distinguished Engineer who oversees the increasingly complex design of the data-center empire that drives Amazon Web Services, or AWS — the nothing-
One of the issues information technology managers raise about cloud computing â as well as the overlapping âÂÂbring your own deviceâ phenomenon â is that the stuff end-users bring into the workplace sooner or later become ITâÂÂs headache. It may be the security issues that are introduced, it may be the support issues that crop up when users run to their IT departments for help when things stop working.
In a new survey of 350 CIOs and IT managers, sponsored by Host Analytics, some of these frustrations come to the fore. Well over than
You've told your ITOps team to make it happen, you've approved the purchase of cloud-in-a-box solutions but your developers aren't using it. Why?Forrester analyst Lauren Nelson and myself get this question often in our inquiries with enterprise customers and we've found the answer and published a new report specifically on this topic. It's core finding: Your approach is wrong. Your asking the wrong people to build the solution. You aren't giving them clear enough direction on what they should build. You aren't helping them understand how this new service should operate or how it will affect their career and value to the organization. And more
These days, it seems that the whole world is gunning for Amazon. Who can argue with the success of their on-line retail ventures, Kindle franchise, and of course AWS? The secret to Amazon’s success is their ability to tune out the noise and focus on innovating, disrupting and creating new markets. Here’s 5 reasons how not to compete with Amazon AWS:
While Amazon’s competitors are busy building out their Cloud infrastructure offerings, they are too closely aligned to Amazon’s vision and business model. Meanwhile, Amazon is innovating and disrupting
Analyst firm IHS published an important study last week. It predicts that, for the first time ever, PC shipments would drop year-over-year; for 2012, total shipments will drop 1.2 percent. IDC and Gartner agree, noting that third quarter PC shipments fell 8 percent. It's the steepest drop since 2001.While it's clear that use of new form factors such as smartphones and tablets has been skyrocketing over the past few years, this study is the first that indicates that this growth, far from incremental, is taking share from the previously dominant form factor. Of course, some may not accept the study's findings, feeling that rumors of the death of
In the competitive world of cloud-based computing infrastructure, Amazon remains top dog. It’s highly visible, its footprint is almost global, it incrementally adds features or cuts prices to keep competitors on their toes, and it generally manages to meet most people’s needs, most of the time. It may not always offer the lowest prices, or the best support, or the fastest processing, or the friendliest management console, but it consistently manages to meet customer demand with an offer that is more or less ‘good enough.’
It is a convenient choice, and it’s the standard against which
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