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 The past month has seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, events, tweets, and - above all - product launches, partnership announcements and M&A moves. So is Cloud Computing, after three years, finally coming to the boil? Here, by way of allowing you to judge for...Nov. 8, 2009 08:45 PM EST Reads: 422 |
 The new widgetry features multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management to improve scaling so users can seamlessly overlay their Eucalyptus cloud on top of virtually any existing IT infrastructure, regardless of size or configuration. Eucalyptus is meant for implementing an...Nov. 6, 2009 05:30 PM EST Reads: 491 |
 It says Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing of an entire cloud computing stack. It’s supposed to offer fast, reliable and scalable access to cached online content and speed responses to requests for stored ...Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 522 |
 The company says “extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualiz...Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 420 |
 Zend Technology, Microsoft’s little open source PHP friend, says it’s making its Zend application server, designed for running and managing business-critical PHP applications in production, available to Oracle’s enterprise customers through Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux Network. It includ...Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 228 |
 It claims the widgetry, which lets Mac users run Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X, is faster, smarter, easier and more powerful than previous generations. Unlike Apple’s own Boot Camp, which forces people to reboot between operating systems, Parallels users can switch between Mac a...Nov. 6, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 783 |
 Google Thursday open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools – a compiler, a cross-browser, server-agnostic library and a bunch of precompiled templates – in the name of making web apps easier to build. Recall that Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps are JavaScript-intensive applications. ...Nov. 5, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 689 |
 SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on November 2 – 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 2,000 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional s...Nov. 4, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 1,054 |
 Terry Woloszyn, Founder of PerspecSys, emphasized security and compliance in his session at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Nov. 2 – 4. In his session – “Addressing Data Privacy, Residency, and Security when Adopting C...Nov. 4, 2009 07:30 PM EST Reads: 542 Replies: 1 |
 A “power panel” composed of Stoneware Co-founder, CEO and Rick German, M-Dot Network CTO Mike Kavis, GoGrid CEO and Co-Founder of John Keagy, and Altor Networks Director of Product Management at Todd Ignasiak gathered at the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo held at the Santa Clar...Nov. 4, 2009 06:45 PM EST Reads: 425 |
 New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel Wednesday charging it with engaging in a “worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct – revealed in e-mails – to maintain its monopoly power and prices on its microprocessors.” The colorf...Nov. 4, 2009 05:45 PM EST Reads: 425 Replies: 1 |
 "On the supply side, interviews with cloud-enabled providers reveal that there are a lot of activities already underway to support enterprises of all kinds," noted Agatha Poon, speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in S...Nov. 4, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 518 |
 Trust is an important word in the world of security, and in cloud computing it’s an even bigger deal. Cloud computing offers up the promise that an organizations will be able to run any application from anywhere at any time. But in a multi-tenant environment, a cloud application runnin...Nov. 4, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 388 |
 The most anticipated talk of the day, at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo yesterday, was by the deputy CIO of the CIA, Jill Singer. Her talk was entitled, Enterprise Cloud Computing, the Infrastructure’s Final Revenge. She acknowledged the problem with defining Cloud Computing, ...Nov. 4, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,114 |
 The reality is that technology CEOs--least of all flamboyant ones--aren't in the trenches getting things to work for customers, and Wang's nuts-and-bolts presentation was meant to re-assure anyone who was listening that the company will support all types of cloud initiatives. Meanwhile...Nov. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 629 |
 The zebra in this analogy is the private cloud, where corporate IT departments feel safe controlling everything internally, and not risking exposure to the perceived tigers "out there" in the public cloud arena. But Tejada stated that in the end, large-scale IT initiatives always conce...Nov. 4, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 591 |
 3Leaf Systems, the well-funded start-up, dropped its fig leaf Tuesday and took a running jump into the pools of memory, I/O and cache that it can construct and deconstruct at will based on the application, creating scale-up shared-memory SMP systems the likes of mainframes, proprietary...Nov. 4, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 620 |
 "We've been fairly quiet," said Rex Wang, VP of Infrastructure and Management at Oracle, this morning as he gave the Morning Keynote at the third and last day of the 4th Cloud Computing International Conference Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Wang was ref...Nov. 4, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 756 |
 Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors.
Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North Americ...Nov. 3, 2009 07:15 PM EST Reads: 930 |
 Yahoo! is, of course, has one of the larger IT installations you will find: 600 million unique website visitors each month worldwide, 300 million email addresses, and "hundreds of petabytes of data," Shugar said. So now, "we are building a private cloud to be used within Yahoo!, have d...Nov. 3, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 626 |
 "This is a long-term activity. started a few years ago," Shugar said. "And prior to cloud we might have had to literally forklift machines and move them when we want to move capacity. With cloud serving we are building a flat network and can basically point and click and move capacity ...Nov. 3, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 593 |
 "With cloud computing, price to deploy applications goes through the floor while flexibility to scale those applications goes through the ceiling!" says WaveMaker CEO Chris Keene, in this lively round-up of The State of Cloud Computing compiled and published by Conference Chair Jeremy ...Nov. 3, 2009 07:15 AM EST Reads: 3,958 Replies: 1 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business ...Nov. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,443 |
 “We see Traffic Server as an essential building block for cloud computing, and at Yahoo!, it’s integral to our edge services, on-line storage and cloud serving. The open-sourcing of Traffic Server is representative of our company-wide commitment to sharing technology innovation with th...Nov. 2, 2009 10:30 PM EST Reads: 1,161 |
 Sometime before 4:30 Wednesday afternoon New York time Cisco and EMC, two companies that are already tight and were expected to get tighter, are supposed to announce a joint venture to sell a cloud or cloud products called vBlock. VMware's involved because virtualization is relatively ...Nov. 2, 2009 10:15 PM EST Reads: 1,244 |
 Marcello also stressed that cloud computing installations must be able to run enterprise applications. "What the folks at salesforce.com have done, for example, is very impressive," he noted. "But we also need to move all these Dotnet and Java enterprise applications to the cloud.." Fu...Nov. 2, 2009 07:15 PM EST Reads: 716 |
 “Unisys cloud computing strategy is based on providing industrial-strength security and data protection,” said Rich Marcello, president, Unisys Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions, as Unisys today unveiled at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa...Nov. 2, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 663 |
 Former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, the guy who spun out AMD’s plants into a joint venture with the government of Abu Dhabi and then became chairman of that company when it was formed in March, has stepped down after being identified as one of the tipsters leaking material inside information t...Nov. 2, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 574 |
 Yahoo! aims to be one of the 800-pound gorillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major technology companies--in the upcoming battles for hosting dominance in the Cloud Computing space. Yahoo aims to be one of the 800-pound gorrillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major ...Nov. 2, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 952 |
 RightScale, Inc., today launched the next generation of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform that delivers increased application portability across cloud infrastructures. With this release, RightScale has enhanced its ServerTemplate technology to provide automatic configuration of ...Nov. 2, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 543 |
 Young as it is, RightScale, the cloud manager, is on to its next-generation platform.
Its ServerTemplate widgetry will now automatically configure servers on specific clouds, system architectures and operating systems, something it didn’t do before.
It should let users take adv...Nov. 2, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 589 |
 Marcello will be delivering the Expo's initial keynote address, at 2pm on Monday, delivering his views on why "The Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing."Marcello, who spent many years at another enterprise technology giant, HP, before joining Unisys, outlined his vision and vi...Nov. 2, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 515 |
 Unisys Corporation today announced the latest in a series of aggressive moves to expand the full spectrum of secure cloud computing options available to enterprise CIOs. The company announced Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution, an innovative solution for organizations to realize the ...Nov. 2, 2009 10:45 AM EST Reads: 509 |
 StarWind Software, a global leader in storage virtualization and a pioneer in iSCSI storage, today announced a release of the fifth-generation of its flagship product StarWind 5.0, an iSCSI SAN software platform which turns any industry-standard x86 or x64 Windows server into a fail-sa...Nov. 2, 2009 09:19 AM EST Reads: 349 |
 Composite Software, Inc., began shipping Composite Information Server 5.1 as the company announced its leadership in a number of industry milestones. Composite Information Server 5.1 continues to provide industry-leading data virtualization capabilities such as the ability to access da...Nov. 2, 2009 08:25 AM EST Reads: 336 |
 Vicom Systems, provider of transparent
wire-speed data services for systems and storage, today announced the
introduction of FlexDM(TM) Data Migration Services. These new services
simplify the process of upgrading storage systems by enabling customers to
migrate data from old to ne...Nov. 2, 2009 06:30 AM EST Reads: 243 |
 Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk o...Oct. 31, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,470 |
 Fusion 3, VMware’s upgraded solution for running Windows and PC applications on a Mac, although Apple has its own Bootcamp widgetry, tried wending its way out the other day and hit a nasty snag at its upgrade portal. VMware says it was because of larger-than-expected demand and couldn’...Oct. 31, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 816 |
 3Tera®, the leading provider of cloud computing
technology and utility computing services, announces Peter Nickolov,
President and CTO, 3Tera will be participating in two speaking sessions
at the 2009 Cloud Computing
Conference and Expo (http://cloudcomputingexpo.com) on November 2...Oct. 30, 2009 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 902 |
 The Orchestra Team has tested SAP Business One running on a Windows 7 workstation and deemed them compatible. Check out the video and updates. Now that windows 7 has been released and all signs are pointing towards a migration away from windows XP and Vista, a number of questions arise...Oct. 30, 2009 09:04 PM EDT Reads: 489 |
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