Frank J. Ohlhorst

When it comes to performance, flash-based memory has always been the undisputed king. However, flash memory has also been the leader in another area as well-expense. Until recently, flash memory has proved to be far too expensive for the typical enterprise to deploy for tier 1 storage. Simply put, the performance offered was not worth […]

Cloud platform vendor ServiceMesh has forged a relationship with Fujitsu, giving ServiceMesh customers access to Fujitsu’s global, on-demand cloud computing footprint. ServiceMesh’s customers will now be able to build hybrid cloud instances, which can be optimized to deliver IT services at lower costs, while speeding the time to market, thanks to Fujitsu’s global cloud platform. […]

VMware’s latest stab at accelerating customer cloud adoption comes in the form of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite, which is the newest piece of VMware’s comprehensive management portfolio. The vCenter Operations Management Suite is designed to simplify and automate the operations of virtual and cloud environments. Ideally, the product will make it easier for enterprise […]

Dropbox Dropbox is a very popular, robust cloud storage service, which offers users 2GB of storage for free. Users can share files with anyone with their public folder, or with other Dropbox users through email invitation. Users can upgrade to 50GB for $10 a month or 100GB for $20 a month. RapidShare RapidShare is probably […]

VMware is joining a number of other virtualization and cloud vendors in trying to leverage online marketing muscle to expand its customer base, while offering new products to its partners and developers. On Jan. 25, VMware officially launched its Solution Exchange, an online virtualization and cloud marketplace that is designed to help customers, partners and […]

Just like the Energizer bunny, the adoption of private cloud technology keeps going and going. A case in point is DynamicOps, a cloud services provider that has seen some 300 percent growth in the private cloud market through 2011. While DynamicOps is the latest example of a rapidly growing cloud services company, it’s by no […]

Analyst firm IDC places EMC at the top of the worldwide Purpose Built Backup Appliance market, with EMC claiming 62 percent share for the first half of 2011. EMC’s primary PBBA products include EMC Avamar, Data Domain and Disk Library for mainframe systems. Market growth and the impressive lead over its nearest competitor bodes well […]

Many enterprises are looking to unified communications (UC) products to increase productivity and simplify communications. However, adoption of UC solutions has long been a challenge, both financially and technologically, for those wanting the most out of UC. AT&T is aiming to simplify the transition to UC with a cloud-based offering that eliminates much of the […]

EMC reported fourth-quarter 2011 earnings per share (EPS) of 42 cents, up 16.1 percent year over year and ahead of Wall Street predictions. In its earnings call with analysts, EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci said, “For the year, EMC’s revenues grew 18 percent. And to be totally transparent, normalizing the effect of our acquisitions, […]

Many enterprises are finding that buying software or services has become an almost unbearable challenge, a challenge that can be summed up with a single word-licensing. After all, there are hundreds of software vendors and cloud service providers, along with thousands of license types and numerous end-user license agreements (EULAs) to worry about. Tech Data, […]

Staying relevant in what is transforming into a commodity market is probably the biggest challenge for storage vendors today. It’s a concept storage vendor Buffalo Technology is well aware of, especially in the highly competitive small and midsize business (SMB) and branch office network-attached storage (NAS) market. Maintaining relevance means vendors such as Buffalo Technology […]

REDMOND, Wash.-“Cloud” was the big word at Microsoft’s recent Private Cloud Reviewers’ Workshop here. There were many other words uttered, such as System Center 2012, Windows Azure, Hyper-V and so forth, but “cloud” seemed to be spoken the most. However, whenever presenters during the event-which ran the week of Jan. 9-mentioned the cloud, they were […]