GigaOM:
Open-source software has been on the rise at many businesses during the extended economic downturn, and one of the areas where it is starting to offer companies a lot of flexibility and cost savings is in cloud computing. Cloud deployments can save money, free businesses from vendor lock-ins that could really sting over tim (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Interview with Lew Moorman, President of Cloud, Jim Curry, VP of Corporate Development and Mark Collier, VP of Business Development at the recent Oracle OpenWorld 2009. They talk about Cloud Computing, Hybrid Hosting and WebLogic Suite. (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
But they may not be going public.Four VCs — Sharon Wienbar at ScaleVP, Sandy Miller at Institutional Venture, Brian Jacobs at Emergence and Courtney McCrea at Weathergage (a fund of funds) — appeared earlier this week on a panel at Dow Jones LP Summit and were asked to predict the future.They all see a big pickup in VC-back (Read More)
Branding Strategy Insider:
1: Facebook replaces personal emailQuestion: Google has it, Hoover has it (in the UK anyway), TiVo had it, lost it and has somewhat got it back. Xerox had it, but nobody really cares anymore. So what is it?It's when a brand name becomes the verb associated with its use. So rather than searching, you Google, or TiVo when di (Read More)
Joyent Wiki:
Welcome * Introduction to Accelerators * A Tour of Your Accelerator; or, What's where, and why? * Getting Started with a Joyent Accelerator * Useful Shell Commands * Account logins and important URLs * Change passwords * Moving to Joyent Accelerators * Changes from Shared Accelerators * Migrating from Shared Accele (Read More)
Joyent Wiki:
Joyent Accelerators come by default with MySQL listening on localhost (127.0.0.1). To be able to talk across the internal network, mysql must be listening on the internal IP. Then you can configure your application on another Accelerator to communicate to it. (Read More)
GigaOM:
Thanks to the amazing viral powers of Twitter, I found a series that CNN is running on cloud computing, complete with stories (I liked the one on server huggers) and fun video about an oddly named dog. The goal clearly is to explain cloud computing to the masses, but when you show someone hosting a photo at Picasa or Flick (Read More)
John M Willis ESM Blog:
An interview I did with Jim Ericson of Information Management…You’ve built up quite a bit of content blogging about the cloud at your site johnmwillis.com in just a short time.I’ve been doing IT work for 30 years, including a lot with IBM Tivoli, but I’ve been focused on the cloud stuff for two years. I was lucky to meet s (Read More)
"sharepoint" via John in Google Reader:
Body: When my 60-some year old mother-in-law asked me what "cloud computing" was, I was suprised. Suddenly, it seemed, a buzz-word that those of us in our IT subculture had been using for a while had gone mainstream. (I remember having the same reaction when I heard a news announcer say someone was wearing "bling".) Sometim (Read More)
Submitted by Holeinhiseye
from Google Reader:
Ever since the introduction of the mobile phone, there has been a shift to add more and more functionalities to mobile devices. We have reached a point where there is plenty of functionality packed into a little device such as a Blackberry or an iPhone but we have also lost something in the shift to mobile computing. The qu (Read More)
silicon.com : News:
Businesses thinking of switching to cloud computing should expect a bumpy probation period, if the experience of The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is anything to go by. The company's CIO Paul Cheesbrough knows all about the challenges of moving to the cloud, after recently migrating 2,000 staff from Microsoft Outlook and Exch (Read More)
Submitted by Stewbagz
from blog:
Amazon Web Services Aws Delivers A Set Of Services That Together Form A Reliable Scalable And Inexpensive Computing Platform 'In The Cloud'.
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Data Center Knowledge:
Rackspace (RAX) has apologized to customers of its cloud computing service for an outage early Tuesday, but said it still has "high confidence" in the capabilities of its Dallas/Fort Worth data center. (Read More)
Hacker News:
At Zoho, we have been banging the drum on the coming new era of competition, thanks to the cloud, in software and how that is going to pose a serious threat to the stratospheric 90% operating profits that Microsoft enjoys on its Office suite. And sure enough, the news that Microsoft Drops Prices of Cloud Apps caught our att (Read More)
Submitted by Stewbagz
from blog:
Amazon Web Services Aws Delivers A Set Of Services That Together Form A Reliable Scalable And Inexpensive Computing Platform 'In The Cloud'.
. (Read More)