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I was left pretty speechless after reading this email below, which was sent out to Amazon EC2 customers in the aftermath of the recent outage of their cloud platform. Recently, I had been pretty conservative and cautious when speaking to customers about Cloud adoption. Amazon’s outage and consequent response to their own mistake pretty much …

Since its release last week, there has been a lot of buzz around the Avamar 6.0. I am going to take the liberty of reading between the lines and exploring some of the good (but gory) details. The biggest news in this release is the DDBoost/Data Domain integration into the new Avamar Client binaries. This …

When a familiar brand such as Nike or McDonald’s releases a new product, an amazing thing occurs which has absolutely nothing to do with what they are selling. These companies have such a strong brand name relationship with the consumer, that the product is immediatly assigned value. Prospective customers are open to at least trying it, while loyal customers have an …

Blackberry’s, iPhone’s, Droid’s, even flip phones, they are devices that have become a part of our daily lives. Within the last five years, the way we use our mobile devices has changed in dramatic ways no one could have completely predicted. We use them to call family, get directions, look up restaurants, watch movies, listen to music, …

Are we as IT professionals ever going to get to a point where we can say “No, I won’t just blindly implement this new widget because I saw an article on it in the WSJ. Tell me what you’re trying to do and we’ll see if it’s the right pathway to meet your goals?”  Earlier this month John Foley …