GridGain Marks Record Usage in December 160,000 Starts of New GridGain 3.0 Cloud Application Platform Signal Rapid Growth, Positive Economic Recovery San Francisco (January 28th, 2011)—In perhaps another positive sign that the economy may be on the road to recovery, GridGain Systems, a leading open-source cloud application platform, announced today the company set a new record for highest usage in its history with more than 160,000 starts of its new GridGain 3.0 software in the month of December 2010. The milestone far exceeds the company’s previous average starts per month of approximately 100,000 and represents an average of one start
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EquaTerra Survey Reveals Steady Growth of Cloud Computing Outsourcing in 2011 Cloud computing will dominate IT outsourcing market while demand for outsourcing and third-party services is expected to grow moderately in 2011, the fourth quarter 2010 Pulse survey by EquaTerra revealed. The survey reflects business and IT service market activity during fourth quarter of last year, and those polled include global business and IT service providers like ACS, a Xerox company, Atos Origin, Caliber Point, Capgemini, Ceridian, Cognizant, CSC, HCL Technologies, HP, IBM, ICG Commerce, Mercer, Outsource Partners International, Steria, Syntel, TCS, and Wipro. The Pulse surveys focus on using
How Cloud Computing Can Save You Money “Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.” – Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Bechtolsheim made this announcement when presenting on the potential of cloud computing, where he stated that ultimately, it will be economics that dictates worldwide adoption of this new technology. And as far as economics are concerned, cloud computing is right at the top in its ability to cut costs. When Bechtolsheim speaks, I would suggest we listen. After all, not only was he a co-founder of one of the defining IT companies of the 20th
ResearchGATE Monetizes Its Web-platform Connecting Researchers Worldwide The “FaceBook For Scientists” Scientists were, and still are, the driving force behind the booming IT industry and its newest sector – Cloud Computing. Scholars have been actively sharing ideas since the dawn of times although the invention of aviation, telephone and electricity made it possible for scientific world to interact in real-time or nearly real-time. Then Internet was born and a few decades later collaborative online work and scientific research is not uncommon within scientific community around the globe. Such amazing, and very fast, development of the online model as well as
Computing Without Borders “Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” – Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), 40th US President. “You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don’t count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.” – Bill Clinton, 42nd US President. Two Presidents, separated by decades, had spoken about the unrestricted flow of information across borders. What started with radio and television actually became a reality with the Internet, allowing Chinese dissidents to post anonymous messages against the single-party government and Iranian rebels
Amazon Introduces Bulk Email Service, Users Receive 1 GB Free Data Transfer Amazon Web Services (AWS), the online arm of Amazon, officially introduced the beta release of its cloud-based Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) – bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2, the company said in a press release. The new product eliminates the need customers to deal with email server management, network configuration, while meeting rigorous Internet Service Provider (ISP) standards for email
Last Day To Register For This Online Event! Free Registration Cloud Best Practices: Implementing for IaaS Tools, Components, & How to Put Them Together Date: January 26, 2011 Time: 02:00 pm (UTC+1) In this session, Malcolm Herbert and Lee Denison, senior architect at Red Hat, will discuss key Red Hat technologies, methodologies, and ideas for implementing an open standards, open source IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) environment. The Red Hat Virtual Experience is a global online forum of Red Hat experts, partners, customers, and the open source community. The event on January 26, 2010 will feature over 40 unique sessions, with access to
As more and more organizations embrace cloud computing to save money, increase productivity, and to gain the ability to scale their infrastructures up or down on a moment’s notice, concerns still remain around the level of performance, availability, and overall security of their databases once they move to a hosting vendor. Since most companies lack the in-house expertise of working in the cloud, many of the fears organizations have with moving their databases from a dedicated environment to the cloud start with the overall comfort level of managing their data in a virtual environment. A few years ago, performance degradation
