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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
