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Blog Post: The rise of cloud-integrated storage and EMC's ViPR

MA Farley

David Isenberg wrote his famous and controversial paper, The Rise of the Stupid Network in 1997. Its a short and historically interesting read. If you have never read it, follow the link there now. It will take you less than 10 minutes. If you want the Cliff notes version, the gist of his paper is copied...

on7 May 2013
Blog Post: 28% more is a small amount to pay for Geo Replication

MA Farley

On December 5th Microsoft announced a pricing reduction for Windows Azure Storage. One of the more noticeable aspects of the announcement was the breakdown of storage costs between Geo Replicated Storage and Locally Redundant Storage. To summarize, Geo Replicated Storage costs approximately 28% more...

on16 Dec 2012
Blog Post: Cloud-integrated Storage: a Breakthrough Enterprise-level Storage Plug-in

MA Farley

The term "hybrid cloud" has been defined many different ways. At Microsoft hybrid cloud refers to data center functionality that spans on-premises and cloud service boundaries. At least that's how I'm understanding it now after having been part of the company for a few weeks. To clarify my perspective...

on11 Dec 2012