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GigaOM:
Sun Microsystems has acquired Q-Layer, a Belgium-based infrastructure management company that has technology to automate the deployment and management of both public and private clouds, for an undisclosed amount of money. This is a smart tactical move, and Q-Layer also gives Sun some strategic assets in the long term. Here (Read More)
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TechCrunch:
Sun Microsystems is elevating its presence in the cloud with the acquisition of Belgium-based Q-layer, which is in the business of automation of cloud computing deployments. Q-layer will become part of Sun’s cloud computing unit.The official statement doesn't provide much more details, and the terms of the agreement remain (Read More)
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GigaOM:
As the need for fast, large-scale computing to power sites like Facebook or even computing clouds has grown, manufacturers such as Rackable Systems are taking notes on server design from Google, which builds its own systems. The goal of their mimicry is to provide more computing power in a smaller form factor while using le (Read More)
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TechCrunch:
Last night we released the finalist names for the Crunchies Awards. Vote here for who you think should win. We’ve set up a site that is pretty self-explanatory, with all of the names of each finalist for every category, along with links to their Websites and Crunchbase profiles where you can learn more about each one (Read More)
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All Things Distributed:
I wrote a first version of this posting on consistency models about a year ago, but I was never happy with it as it was written in haste and the topic is important enough to receive a more thorough treatment. ACM Queue asked me to revise it for use in their magazine and I took the opportunity to improve the article. This is (Read More)
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GigaOM:
If cloud computing is ever going to reach its full potential, it needs to be more than a utility service that IT managers use to offload excess computing demands. That will require a shift in the way programmers build applications, says Russ Daniels, CTO and V-P of cloud services strategy at HP. In an exhaustive interview (Read More)
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Cloud Computing,
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Dec 22, 2008
: "That will require a shift in the way programmers build applications, says Russ Daniels, CTO and V-P of cloud services strategy at HP. In an exhaustive interview with Ars Technica, Daniels talks about building applications for the cloud that instead of looking inward for data, can gather it from across various repositories and scale easily."
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