GigaOM:
Cisco, EMC and VMware, the trifecta of companies putting their own proprietary stamp on cloud computing for the enterprise, today created a partnership to offer equipment called Vblocks and support a new joint venture called (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s Halloween, and nowhere more obviously so than in San Francisco.This is my first 31st October as a resident of the United States and I have to say, the effort you yanks go to in celebrating the ancient Celts’ holy evenin (Read More)
Cloud Computing:
Yesterday Gartner distinguished analyst Tom Bittman, who covers cloud computing and virtualization, posted some thoughts and observations from the Gartner Symposium in Orlando.Private Cloud-o-mainaBased on Tom’s observation (Read More)
Cloud Computing:
Just a little while ago Steve Shankland posted an article from the front lines of the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando. The article is based on a presentation given today by Gartner addressing the top 10 trends that will (Read More)
GigaOM:
While just 10 percent of U.S. companies have either adopted cloud computing or have immediate plans to do so, Software as a Service is being used by a whopping 68 percent, according to the results of a new cloud computing sur (Read More)
scalability.org:
There are some real nuggets of value in “the cloud”&tm; but as with “The Grid”&TM; there is a serious land grab underway, where everything is … er … cloudy.Yeah, thats a good phrase … cloudy. Though nebulous fits as well. A (Read More)
Cloud Computing:
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the head of Canonical, the commercial entity behind the popular linux distribution, is currently making his rounds in the States. Yesterday he was quite busy, taking the stage at bot (Read More)
Cloud Computing:
At Cloud World/Open Source World earlier this month I grabbed some time with Forrester’s “Mr. Cloud” James Staten. I wanted to get his take on Cloud Computing and what was hot and what is not. Here is the result:(Please vis (Read More)
RightScale Blog:
This evening Amazon launched a new service called “VPC”, which stands for Virtual Private Cloud, read the details on the product page and the AWS blog, plus a nice backgrounder on Werner Vogel’s blog. The short story is that (Read More)
GigaOM:
Microsoft today unveiled pricing details for its Azure services platform — possibly because customers were reluctant to build an application on the beta platform without knowing what it may one day cost them. The platform is (Read More)
scalability.org:
Released this morningAutomated High Performance Computing Solutions Provide Alternative to SharedVirtual Private Server CloudsFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(Business Wire)–NewServers Inc., the leading provider of Hardware as a Servic (Read More)
GigaOM:
IBM’s first true cloud computing products, announced today, consists of workload-specific clouds that can be run by an enterprise on special-purpose IBM gear, Big Blue building that same cloud on its special-purpose gear runn (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
Back in April when we launched Java support, we gave the first 10,000 developers who signed up access to the new runtime. In case you haven't heard, we recently announced at Google I/O that App Engine for Java signup is now o (Read More)
GigaOM:
Hewlett Packard today announced a new line of servers, a data center mapping program and some consulting and financing services aimed at companies that build out mega data centers. Potential purchasers of the new HP machines (Read More)
GigaOM:
After laying off thousands yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited Stanford today in high spirits, telling students that his company is hiring and that he can’t think of a better time to start a business. “These are to (Read More)