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Technology: Private Clouds Are Forming

By Dick Weisinger

“Private Clouds” is a concept which some enterprises are beginning to investigate. The private cloud runs within the firewall and is under complete control of the enterprise, but it also has characteristics of being “on-demand” and ready to scale up…

Enterprise Software: Enterprise Trend towards on-Demand Apps

By Dick Weisinger

Rishi Chandra, product manager of Google Enterprise, outlined four trends that are causing vendors and enterprises to rethink enterprise computing and software. Chandra’s thinking was reported by CIO magazine. Today’s software innovations are being driven by consumer applications. Business applications…

Technology: Open Source DBs win Adoptors

By Dick Weisinger

More and more enterprise data centers are giving Open Source databases a try. And many are liking what they see. While it’s not clear how Sun will ever be able to monetize back the $1 billion they spent to acquire…

Technology: What Does it Take to Build a Cloud?

By Dick Weisinger

A lot. Take Microsoft’s Data Centers. One estimate derived from Microsoft public information is 220,000 servers. In January 2008 Microsoft reported 15 data centers, 17,406 racks with a total power comsumption of 72,500KW. Microsoft data centers are located in places…

Technology: Dispersed Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Data growth is huge, and that growth is driving a previously boring industry to reinvent itself. Hardly a week goes by without some announcement about changes being pioneered in the area storage technology. Traditional storage today guards against data loss…