All Posts Tagged With: "cloud"
IBM Launches “Resilient Cloud Validation” Program
IBM today said it would introduce a program to validate the resiliency of any company delivering applications or services to clients in the cloud environment. As a result, customers can quickly and easily identify trustworthy providers that have passed a rigorous evaluation, enabling them to more quickly and confidently reap the business benefits of cloud services.
24Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVideo: Cloudfellas
We may think the cloud is being hyped a bit too much, but we sure had fun watching this video from EMC.
10Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCan We Stop Hyping The Cloud Yet ?
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The past six to nine months we’ve seen the rapid invasion of the Cloud, Cloud Computing or a variant including Cloud. We’ve had different Barcamp style Cloudcamps, there are bloggers rebranding their virtualization blog to a cloudblog and there are new aggregators popping that gather all cloudy news.
Now let’s face it, there is [...]
RightScale Supports The Smell Of Saunas
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Today RightScale Inc. announced they will team up with the Eucalyptus team have their platform available with Eucalyptus so they can deliver an Easy to Mange Open Source Cloud Computing platform.
They have announced that starting today, November 4, 2008 they will have the RightScale Cloud computing management platform ready for use with the Eucalyptus Puclic [...]
Microsoft Launches Cloud Platform, Dubs It Windows Azure
Ray Ozzie opened the Microsoft PDC ‘08 this morning with a keynote speech, announcing Windows Azure, Microsoft’s “Windows in the cloud”.
27Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedRackspace Acquires Cloud Providers Slicehost And Jungle Disk
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Rackspace Hosting today announced it has acquired privately owned VPS provider Slicehost, and storage provider Jungle Disk. (hat tip to TechCrunch)
The purchase price of the combined acquisitions is approximately $11.5 million payable in cash and stock, with the potential for up to $16.5 million in additional payouts of cash and stock based on certain performance criteria.
Rackspace [...]
openQRM 4.1 Released With Support for KVM
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Matt just sent mail to let us know that the openQRM team has released a fresh openQRM 4.1
After the initial 4.0 release of the “next generation” of openQRM, re-written in PHP, the new release comes with some nice new features. the most important one being the addition of . support for KVM-Virtualization And [...]
vCloud: VMware To Be Cloud Computing Provider Too, But Inside Your Private DC (And Not Tomorrow)
VMware said Monday that it will launch a cloud computing initiative called vCloud to bring enterprise class service to customers with more than 100 partners.
15Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedCitrix To Jump On Cloud Wagon, But How?
Tarry is hinting at a “big” announcement that Citrix will make on September 15th. He reveals nothing, apparently having signed an NDA, but hints that the news concerns his topic of focus of lately. An acquisition? A major update of their product line?
10Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedBuild Your Own Cloud!
Given enough hardware, you can now build your own Amazon Elastic Cloud or similar platform. And all in Open Source. A group of developers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara has recently released EUCALPYTUS, a tool that can make your personal Cloud dreams come true!
6Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | Continued
