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OpenFlow Report

Hot off the press — our Open­Flow report. For the past year Peter Christy has been wan­der­ing around ask­ing bright and influ­en­tial peo­ple what they think about Open­Flow. His find­ings are writ­ten up in our lat­est IRG report: Open­Flow: A Rev­o­lu­tion in Net­work Archi­tec­ture? Inter­ested? jkatsaros@irg-intl.com. Peter con­ducted a Webi­nar on Open­Flow — here’s a […]

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The Fourth Cloud

Mark Templeton’s keynote at Syn­ergy, the annual Cit­rix users’ con­fer­ence is usu­ally pretty inter­est­ing and this year was no excep­tion. Tem­ple­ton intro­duced the “Fourth Cloud” — the Per­sonal Cloud — to what has largely been a three cloud world (Pub­lic, Pri­vate and Hybrid). The Fourth Cloud is an impor­tant con­cept because it defines the place […]

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Apple’s Personal Cloud

And speak­ing of the per­sonal cloud, at this week’s Apple’s WWDC Steve Jobs intro­duced iCloud — effec­tively remov­ing your PC from being the cen­ter of your con­tent and putting every­thing in the cloud. Make a change in your cal­en­dar on your iPhone. The change auto­mat­i­cally gets pushed up to the cloud and then down­loaded to […]

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Cloud Storage

We got a lot of pos­i­tive feed­back from our Startup Cloud Stor­age Cat­e­gory Table so we’re includ­ing more names than we had last time — it’s our sim­ple way of watch­ing what hap­pens as an inter­est­ing seg­ment starts ramp­ing up. So far in this space ven­ture investors have invested $219M in twelve star­tups. It’s likely […]

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Big Data Buzz

You want to stay one step ahead of the other guy. When some­one asks you what’s new, you can’t say “The Cloud” any­more — that’s the old new. The new new is Big Data. It’s a per­fect answer to the “what’s new” ques­tion because most likely the per­son who asked you the “what’s new” question […]

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