Category Archives: cloud backup

Defining a Cloud as “Good” or “Bad” May Come Down to Whether or Not It Works

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Jerome_Wendt

By Jerome M. Wendt on July 29, 2011 8:45 AM | Permalink | Leave a comment This past Thursday I became aware of David Linthicum’s Cloud Computing blog over at InfoWorld for the first time as a result of an … Continue reading →

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Cloud! Cloud! Cloud! A Not so Authoritative Look at What “Cloud” Terms Mean

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Jerome_Wendt

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com Cloud. Cloud! Cloud!! That’s all I hear these days. Cloud computing. Cloud storage. Private Cloud. Private Storage Cloud. Public Cloud. Public storage cloud. Hybrid cloud. Hybrid storage cloud. Enterprise cloud. Consumer cloud. Cloud … Continue reading →

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Cloud Providers Do Not Deserve the High Opinions that Some Users Have Unwittingly Granted Them

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Jerome_Wendt

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com The recent outage at Amazon Web Services coupled with the news that Iron Mountain is exiting some of its storage cloud lines of business has created quite a stir in the storage industry. … Continue reading →

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High Capacity HDDs Create Growing Need for Centralizing the Backup of Desktop and Laptop Data

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Jerome_Wendt

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com It is almost universally recognized that protecting and recovering applications and application data that reside on Linux, UNIX, VMware or Microsoft Windows servers is a necessity no matter what the cost. Yet most … Continue reading →

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Live By the Cloud, Die By the Cloud

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Randall Crocker

A recent blog post by PC World’s David Coursey referenced the reliability issues inherent in cloud computing, particularly with backed-up data.  His comments were prompted by the Google outage that left 14% of its user base without access to their … Continue reading →

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