By Maureen O'Gara  The new widgetry features multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management to improve scaling so users can seamlessly overlay their Eucalyptus cloud on top of virtually any existing IT infrastructure, regardless of size or configuration. Eucalyptus is meant for implementing an... Nov. 6, 2009 05:30 PM EST Reads: 419 |
By Maureen O'Gara  It says Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing of an entire cloud computing stack. It’s supposed to offer fast, reliable and scalable access to cached online content and speed responses to requests for stored ... Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 437 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The company says “extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualiz... Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 346 |
By Maureen O'Gara  It claims the widgetry, which lets Mac users run Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X, is faster, smarter, easier and more powerful than previous generations. Unlike Apple’s own Boot Camp, which forces people to reboot between operating systems, Parallels users can switch between Mac a... Nov. 6, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 683 |
By John Savageau  The Cloud Computing Conference and Expo in Santa Clara has come to an end, leaving a fair share of opinion, skepticism, and robust discussion for the period of incubation leading up to the next conference. Many companies have adopted “Cloud-something or other” as their new name, and a... Nov. 6, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 465 |
By Greg Ness  As virtualization entered the data center it became an accidental standard bearer for network automation. The power of virtualization helped to drive a cultural (including x as a service) shift in expectations, just as Nicholas Carr was declaring war on traditional “old world” IT with... Nov. 6, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 338 |
By Liz McMillan  Investors who are serious about maximizing returns and minimizing risks will find McWilliams' ongoing earnings season coverage, which began with his highly acclaimed State of Tech series and is now focusing on real-time earnings analysis, invaluable. To get the inside scoop and his det... Nov. 6, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 381 |
By Ellen Rubin  The talk at the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara was all about enterprise cloud adoption. Is it real? Is it already happening? If so, who’s doing it, which applications are they running and which clouds are being tested? To a large extent, cloud computing is a victim of it... Nov. 6, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 448 |
By John Cowan  RASS and 6fusion USA, Inc. announced a partnership to co-deliver cloud hosted desktop and server applications on demand. The joint offering promises to improve existing performance and cost limitations for customers moving away from a traditional on-site application delivery model. RA... Nov. 6, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 410 |
By Yeshim Deniz  A majority of executives polled by Deloitte (60.9 percent) believe cloud computing will be a transformative technology in the industry and can drive financial benefits, or at least be useful for certain kinds of enterprise services. The executives were polled recently during the Deloit... Nov. 5, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 490 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Google Thursday open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools – a compiler, a cross-browser, server-agnostic library and a bunch of precompiled templates – in the name of making web apps easier to build. Recall that Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps are JavaScript-intensive applications. ... Nov. 5, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 616 |
By Cloud News Desk  IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing include a set of ready-to-use application lifecycle management tools for developing and testing in the IBM Cloud, and use infrastructure management capabilities, to help organizations build software applications in the cloud. ... Nov. 5, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 451 |
By David Deans  Worldwide spending on data center technology infrastructure and services exceeds $350 billion annually, according to McKinsey and Company estimates, with half of that spent on capital expenses and half on operating expenses. Nov. 5, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 330 |
By Liz McMillan  Cisco's foray into the server market, the merger between Oracle and Sun Microsystem, the acquisition of Fujitsu Siemens Computers by Fujitsu, and the acquisition of Silicon Graphics International by Rackable Systems have stirred the equilibrium in the worldwide computer system industry... Nov. 5, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 416 |
By NeonDrum News  SMA Solar Technology AG, listed in the TecDAX of the Frankfurt stock exchange since last year, is the world market leader in photovoltaic inverters, a central component of every solar system. With subsidiaries in eleven countries on four continents, the product and company communicatio... Nov. 5, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 285 |
By Cloud News Desk  Vordel’s products provide governance, acceleration, integration, and security for SOA and Cloud Computing. Spike Reply has established a SOA Center of Excellence division to assist its Customers exploit the opportunities presented by adopting a SOA-based approach to their business proc... Nov. 5, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 420 |
By Pat Romanski  Organizations who wish to use Cloud services in conjunction with their own SOA and those of their partners face major issues related to reliability and trustworthiness. One significant challenge is aggregating services from multiple domains including Public, Private and Community Cloud... Nov. 5, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 379 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Apps.gov is an online store for government agencies that are required to use the GSA schedule. The site was designed to help them to find, purchase and use SaaS and other cloud computing services with the knowledge that they have already been screened, and government prices negotiated.... Nov. 5, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 446 |
By Pat Romanski  Versatile's broad expertise in architecting and deploying large scale virtual systems in both the data center and at the desktop are on display at this event. Event attendees will be able to have hands on experience with these technologies including key Versatile technology and engage ... Nov. 5, 2009 10:15 AM EST Reads: 389 |
By Cloud News Desk  SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on November 2 – 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 2,000 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional s... Nov. 4, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 1,014 |
By Cloud News Desk  Terry Woloszyn, Founder of PerspecSys, emphasized security and compliance in his session at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Nov. 2 – 4. In his session – “Addressing Data Privacy, Residency, and Security when Adopting C... Nov. 4, 2009 07:30 PM EST Reads: 518 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara  New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel Wednesday charging it with engaging in a “worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct – revealed in e-mails – to maintain its monopoly power and prices on its microprocessors.” The colorf... Nov. 4, 2009 05:45 PM EST Reads: 411 Replies: 1 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Commenting on the quarter, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers noted, "Building off what we saw as a clear tipping point in Q4, our Q1 results continued to reflect strong sequential growth trends that meet or exceed expectations during normal economic times. We view the ... Nov. 4, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 928 |
By Cloud News Desk  "On the supply side, interviews with cloud-enabled providers reveal that there are a lot of activities already underway to support enterprises of all kinds," noted Agatha Poon, speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in S... Nov. 4, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 494 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Authors of the RSA Security Brief include many of the industry's foremost security and virtualization experts from EMC and VMware, including Bret Hartman, Chief Technology Officer of EMC's RSA security division, Dr. Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of ... Nov. 4, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 482 |
By Bill Roth  The most anticipated talk of the day, at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo yesterday, was by the deputy CIO of the CIA, Jill Singer. Her talk was entitled, Enterprise Cloud Computing, the Infrastructure’s Final Revenge. She acknowledged the problem with defining Cloud Computing, ... Nov. 4, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,076 |
By Roger Strukhoff  The reality is that technology CEOs--least of all flamboyant ones--aren't in the trenches getting things to work for customers, and Wang's nuts-and-bolts presentation was meant to re-assure anyone who was listening that the company will support all types of cloud initiatives. Meanwhile... Nov. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 596 |
By Pat Romanski  The Vitality Group announced that Savvis, Inc. has selected its incentive-based wellness program to motivate and support Savvis associates as they take ownership of their personal health. Savvis, one of the largest IP network and hosting providers in the world employs more than 2,200 e... Nov. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 350 |
By Pat Romanski  In an effort to modernize its business operations and eliminate the high cost of maintaining and upgrading SAP's complex, on-premise software, COMMCO transitioned to NetSuite and now relies on NetSuite's cloud computing platform for its core operational needs, including Enterprise Reso... Nov. 4, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 426 |
By Paul Miller  Google held a small event in London late last month, at which senior executives from a wide range of organisations gathered to discuss the impact of the Cloud. Presenters included luminaries such as Marc Benioff, Werner Vogels, Geoffrey Moore and Nick Carr, as well as CIOs at the coalf... Nov. 4, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 430 |
By Maureen O'Gara  3Leaf Systems, the well-funded start-up, dropped its fig leaf Tuesday and took a running jump into the pools of memory, I/O and cache that it can construct and deconstruct at will based on the application, creating scale-up shared-memory SMP systems the likes of mainframes, proprietary... Nov. 4, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 580 |
By Liz McMillan  "We've been fairly quiet," said Rex Wang, VP of Infrastructure and Management at Oracle, this morning as he gave the Morning Keynote at the third and last day of the 4th Cloud Computing International Conference Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Wang was ref... Nov. 4, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 665 |
By Pat Romanski  Platform Computing is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high performance computing (HPC) with two new offerings. The company today announced the release of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster, a product that dynamically changes the operating systems and personalities of compute node... Nov. 4, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 428 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors.
Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North Americ... Nov. 3, 2009 07:15 PM EST Reads: 875 |
By Pat Romanski  Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the newest product set in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is designed to enable pervasive adoption of virtualization, with a compr... Nov. 3, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 544 |
By Roger Strukhoff  Yahoo! is, of course, has one of the larger IT installations you will find: 600 million unique website visitors each month worldwide, 300 million email addresses, and "hundreds of petabytes of data," Shugar said. So now, "we are building a private cloud to be used within Yahoo!, have d... Nov. 3, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 608 |
By Roger Strukhoff  "This is a long-term activity. started a few years ago," Shugar said. "And prior to cloud we might have had to literally forklift machines and move them when we want to move capacity. With cloud serving we are building a flat network and can basically point and click and move capacity ... Nov. 3, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 570 |
By Cloud News Desk  "On the supply side, interviews with cloud-enabled providers reveal that there are a lot of activities already underway to support enterprises of all kinds," notes Agatha Poon, who this coming week will be speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo at the Santa... Nov. 3, 2009 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,318 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business ... Nov. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,361 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Sometime before 4:30 Wednesday afternoon New York time Cisco and EMC, two companies that are already tight and were expected to get tighter, are supposed to announce a joint venture to sell a cloud or cloud products called vBlock. VMware's involved because virtualization is relatively ... Nov. 2, 2009 10:15 PM EST Reads: 1,159 |