What is a data center fabric? Can this be related to how electric generation started? What about the electric grid? Can we expect to see a compute grid develop? Where do classical operating systems come in? If there is a…
Author: Tim M. Crawford
Tim Crawford is ranked as one of the top most influential CIOs. Tim is a transformational CIO with broad experience that takes a provocative, but pragmatic approach to the intersection of business and technology.
Tim has served as CIO and other senior IT leadership roles with global organizations such as Konica Minolta/ All Covered, Stanford University, Knight-Ridder, Philips Electronics and National Semiconductor. Tim is also host of the CIO In The Know podcast.
Cloud Computing – A Definition
Everyone is ‘in the cloud’ today. But what does this mean and how will it help? First, a common way to talk about cloud computing is needed. We need a way to further define how to look at cloud services.…
Storage Failure in the Cloud
Is storage in the cloud a failure? I'll answer that further down...read on. It started with a story in the Boston Globe on March 21, 2009: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/03/21/data_backup_firm_sues_2_hardware_suppliers/ That spawned a series of threads on the failure of Cloud Storage. Carbonite's…
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