Who Doesn’t Like Cloud Computing? By Sourya Biswas of CloudTweaks Strange as it may sound, there do exist people who oppose the meteoric rise of cloud computing. And we are not talking about established application developers like Microsoft who fear losing billions of revenue as more and more people shift towards demand-based software in the cloud. In fact, whatever Microsoft’s misgivings may be, it read the writing on the wall some time back and embraced the adage “If you can’t fight them, join them.” As a results Docs.com was born in collaboration with Facebook earlier this year. No, we are
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New Investment Opportunities with Nasuni CloudTweaks Nasuni has just announced a new investment of $15million from Venture Capitalists to fund development of its cloud-based filer software, following a $8million investment in March 2009. This software comes in the form of a downloadable virtual machine which presents the storage cloud as a networked drive to local users. A local 500GB cache drive is used to encrypt and decrypt the data as it is transferred between the users and the storage cloud. The Nasuni virtual machine is compatible with the major VM hosts, including VMWare, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V, and it
Fighting Above Your Weight Class Through Cloud Computing By Sourya Biswas of CloudTweaks Tuesday, December, 21th, 2010 – Imagine the following scenario. You, weighing a mere 150 pounds and an armchair fighter, are suddenly challenged to a boxing match with a 250 pound professional boxer with ham- sized fists. Under normal circumstances, you wouldn’t consider even stepping into the ring. However, you have a trump card – a magic glove that multiplies the force of your punch tenfold. Emboldened by this amazing contraption, you confidently step into the ring, confident in the belief that you stand more than a fair
Much awaited cloud launch in the UK for 2011: Cloud gaming By CloudTweaks Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 - 2011 will be a much awaited year for all the gamers. The concept of cloud gaming came into practicality only recently when companies like OnLive launched a cloud gaming platform in the US, this summer. With most revolutionary ideas revolving around cloud services, names like OnLive are bent on providing gaming services to all the people who’d rather play Crysis 2 on the internet than to play it on their low- end system that can hardly support Dave 2 graphics. OnLive is
CloudTweaks has been growing at a tremendous rate and we’d like to thank you for all the support! Over the past few weeks we have been adding new writers, illustrators and consultants to bring you the very best in cloud computing resources. Workshops 2011 We have added our Workshop page which we will be offering in 2011. Our instructor Predrag Mitrovic is also a writer for Cloudtweaks and is a strategic advisor, author and inspiring force behind Cloud Sweden, a Swedish Competence Center for cloud technology, policy, strategy and competence. Predrag was also the National Technology Officer, Chief Security Advisor
Existing Investors Joined by Flybridge Capital Partners, Funding Now Totals $23 Million NATICK, Mass., Dec. 20, 2010 — Nasuni®, maker of the storage industry’s leading cloud gateway, today announced that it has closed $15 million in Series B funding led by Flybridge Capital Partners with participation from existing investors, North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners, who led the company’s Series A funding in March 2009. Investment in Nasuni now totals $23 million for the two rounds. Chip Hazard, a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, has been named to the Nasuni Board of Directors. Jeffrey P. McCarthy, Partner at
Oracle – the latest Big Boy to join the Cloud Computing game By Sourya Biswas of CloudTweaks Monday, December, 20th, 2010 – Cloud computing received a major shot in the arm with the entrant of the latest big name in the field – Oracle – on Wednesday, 15 December 2010. On that day, Oracle introduced Oracle Cloud Office and Open Office 3.3. While the latter is the latest version of the office suite that Oracle recently acquired in its portfolio after taking over Sun Microsystems, it is the former that has garnered maximum interest. Oracle describes the cloud computing product
Why Cloud Computing? Imagine the absence of a power grid throughout the nation, necessitating the presence of a generator in every home for producing electricity. Seems inefficient, doesn’t it? Well, if so be the case, why do we have our computers filled with software we use intermittently? Wouldn’t it be meaningful to use software the same way we use electricity – as and when we need it? This was the defining thought behind cloud computing, which has been defined as “Internet- based computing, whereby shared servers provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand.” The Internet
