Mike Maxey

Cloud Computing Journal Tier1 analyst Antonio Piraino quantifies the public cloud service market to be around $300M in 2009 and conservatively estimates 100% growth per year for the next three years. Cloud storage is estimated to be about 40-60% of this market. Although cloud c... (more)

In my previous article, "Cloud Computing Public or Private? How to Choose Cloud Storage," we covered choosing between public and private cloud storage and the appropriate data types for cloud storage. This month we will dig deeper into the workloads and file creation patterns tha... (more)

The ParaScale Blog Last week the masses converged on San Jose for the SYS-CON convention that covered SOA, Virtualization and Cloud Computing. The event spanned three days and was very well attended. I was surprised at how crowded the sessions were given the state of the economy ... (more)

Cloud storage is a relatively new concept that is becoming a more recognizable term in industry vernacular. Originally delivered as a service, it gained early popularity with Web 2.0 startups looking to outsource storage administration. As the concept spread and offerings expande... (more)