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On Rob Kaufmann’s Thesis: NAS vs. Cloud Part 2

by cloudtweaks on August 20, 2012

in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, News, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology

On Rob Kaufmann’s Thesis: NAS vs. Cloud 2 Read Part 1 So, we’ve seen that Kaufmann’s assertion of bandwidth problems and ‘control’ are not entirely convincing. This time, we’ll take a look at two of his further claims as to why NAS (network attached storage) is, in data-sensitive or data-rich cases, a better solution than Cloud services. Kaufmann suggests that “a lot of cloud services will have limits. Because they’re serving [tens of thousands] of people, they might be able to give you only 20 gigabytes.” And that, on the face of it, is a valid objection. It’s simply no

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Big News! eBay and Microsoft Announce Cloud Computing Partnership

by cloudtweaks on July 12, 2010

in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Host, IT, Microsoft, News, Partnerships, Press Release, Stocks, Storage, Technology

WASHINGTON — July 12, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. and eBay [NASDAQ: EBAY] today announced that eBay will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform appliance for cloud computing. The partnership is a significant joint engineering effort that will couple the innovation and power of the Windows Azure platform appliance with the technical excellence of eBay’s platform — to deliver an automated, scalable, cost-effective capacity management solution. Microsoft also announced the limited production release of the Windows Azure platform appliance, the first turnkey cloud platform for large service providers and enterprises to deploy in their own

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