Cloud Computing:
With today’s post, I’m right at the mid-point of my series of video interviews from Cloud Computing Expo. Today’s post offers a two-for-one special, Gluster CEO Hitesh Chellani along with Jack O’Brien who heads Gluster’s product management.(Please visit the site to view this media)Some of the topics Hitesh and Jack tackle: (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Joyent, the Californian provider of cloud computing solutions – although they like to refer to that as delivering “web application hosting Infrastructure as a Service” – today announced that it raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Intel Capital. The news comes only a few weeks after Intel helped the 5-year old compa (Read More)
TechWag:
Image via CrunchBaseAs Azure gets closer to its release date of 01 January 2010 – the biggest question is what kind of support can you get for open source systems or programs like PHP. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) you can get Linux and native PHP support, and you can do the same with Rack Space Cloud computing. Microsoft (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
from Google Reader:
I just received an email invitation to try out a new application. I get a lot of those these days, but this one was different.It was from Microsoft.It picked my interest. A Web Platform Installer? Microsoft doing PHP?I went to the URL provided and I was blown away with the concept behind this application. Basically Windows (Read More)
The Next Web:
The Microsoft Azure platform, Microsoft’s cloud solution, today announced a number of upgrades to its architecture. Microsoft explained that it had been paying attention to developer feedback up to this point, and had built a number of the requested features and changes into Azure.Microsoft’s vision for the cloud is that it (Read More)
Engadget:
Sure, you've been hearing NVIDIA toss around names like CUDA, Fermi and Tesla for what seems like ages now, but we're guessing this is the sort of thing that'll get most folks to really take notice: a promise to cut supercomputing costs by a factor of ten. That rather impressive feat comes courtesy of the company's new Tesl (Read More)
Submitted by Esjay
from Google Reader:
At the office, you've got a sluggish computer running aging software, and the email system routinely badgers you to delete messages after you blow through the storage limits set by your IT department. Searching your company's internal Web site feels like being teleported back to the pre-Google era of irrelevant search resul (Read More)
Submitted by Sfoskett
from Google Reader:
Stephen Foskett recently wrote a blog post that talks about the shocking “bubblegum and baling wire” approach that some companies take when delivering cloud computing storage. I couldn’t agree with him more. There are some hokey things going on in the world of cloud storage, otherwise these crashes wouldn’t happen and Jam (Read More)
Cloud Computing:
A couple of weeks ago on the show floor of Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara I ran into Adam Hawley, Director of product management for Oracle VM. When Adam finished his stint in the Oracle booth he sat down with me to talk about what was going on at Oracle in the world of virtualization and the cloud.(Please visit the s (Read More)
Cloud Computing:
At the cloud computing expo in Santa Clara I was able to grab some time with Rob Walters, director of product management at Houston-based The Planet. Rob, who has an atypical Texas twang, talked to me about how The Planet has been dipping its toe in the cloud waters and how it is soon planning on taking the plunge.(Please (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX) is catching up with Amazon.com when it comes to cloud computing. About a year ago Rackspace Hosting CEO Lanham Napier said that Amazon.com was far ahead of them. But now Napier admits that they are closing the gap against Amazon.com.Rackspace cloud computing hosting grew over 100% in a y (Read More)
GigaOM:
AT&T today unveiled its Synaptic Compute as a Service product that will use hardware from Sun Microsystems and software from VMware to provide businesses with computing on demand backed by a guarantee of 99.9 percent availability. The product, which will compete with Amazon’s Ec2, Rackspace’s CloudServers, GoGrid and sever (Read More)
TechCrunch:
During IBM’s Q3 earnings call a few weeks ago, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge highlighted business analytics as a sector where Big Blue is investing significant amounts of cash. The company recently acquired data analytics company SPSS for $1.2 billion and business analytics firm RedPill. Tonight, IBM is unveiling a new internal a (Read More)
CloudAve:
Image via WikipediaWell, not really *that* Cloud.. but it’s the weekend (for a few hours), so light weight posts are in order. Reuters reports:Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to “bomb clouds” to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due t (Read More)