Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 3 This is the fourth in a continuing series on startups raising funding. You can read the first three in the series here: 1. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 2 2. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 1 3. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money Today, there are two startups in focus – VMTurbo and ServiceMesh. VMTurbo (http://www.vmturbo.com/) Massachusetts-based VMTurbo announced recently that it has closed a $10 million B-round of funding, financed by returning investors Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners, bringing total capital raised to $17.5 million. It
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by cloudtweaks on December 16, 2011
in Case Study, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization, White Papers
The Cloud Awaits: Storage For The Growing Virtualized Infrastructure Growth is a good situation for organizations to experience, but growth is not easy and presents challenges. Today, virtual environments in many industries are growing, and organizations are increasingly deploying VMware virtualization to help consolidate IT, improve business flexibility, increase application availability, and reduce costs. After virtualizing test and development environments, and other applications, many organizations are now eager to extend the benefits of virtualization throughout the data center, creating an end-to-end virtualized IT environment and setting the stage for cloud computing. To succeed, organizations must adopt a storage platform that can be tightly integrated with virtualized servers. That storage platform must be designed to deliver the
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by cloudtweaks on December 12, 2011
in Cloud Computing, Computing, Guest Writers, Host, iCloud, IT, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization, VPN, Web Hosting
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding this elegant approach to marshaling remote computer resources. And, we do not wish to profit from the confusion created by the broad marketing of cloud computing to the public. So here we offer a definition of cloud computing that is easy to understand, accurate, and without marketing hype. 1. Cloud Computing Is Hardware As Software Let’s deal with the first part of our simplified definition of cloud computing – that “cloud computing is hardware as software.” Imagine that hardware resources, like memory and processing power, are replicable and portable like software. This special quality
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AMD Announces Fusion12 Developer Summit December 07, 2011 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that AMD Fusion Developer Summit 2012 (Fusion12) will be held on June 11-14, 2012 in Bellevue, Washington. The company’s annual developer summit will return to the Meydenbauer Center and the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue. This event will build on the success of the sold out AMD Fusion11 earlier this year, where more than 700 software development leaders from industry, academia, and government converged on the forefront of heterogeneous computing. The summit offers an engaging opportunity to learn more about next-generation software development and Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) technology, central processing unit
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by cloudtweaks on December 2, 2011
in Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Contributors, IT, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
Continued from Part 2 The Cost of Cloud Clearly, there is great return potential associated with Cloud-based model. However, transition to Cloud-based model from an on-premise model is not without cost. Direct Ongoing Cloud Costs While the cost savings associated with a cloud-based model over an on-premises model are clearly substantial, there are two areas where an IT organization will face new costs associated with Cloud: those associated with the Cloud platform (~5%) and those associated with Cloud databases (~4%). However, these are operational expenditures – pay-as-you-go costs, that depend entirely on the business’ demand. On-time Migration Costs In addition
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by cloudtweaks on December 1, 2011
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Tools, Trends, Virtualization
Calculating the ROI on Cloud – Part 2 Continued From Part 1 Productivity Enhancement Productivity enhancements are more subjective in nature than direct cost savings; they are dependent on the type of business and the current organizational set up. Application Development The notion of Platform as a Service (PaaS) is to extract the common set of services as a platform and enable the cloud developer to become more productive and agile. The set of services provided by the platform can be categorized as Middleware – Identity, authentication, worlflow, mashup Computation – logic execution, messaging, transactions Data Layer – Relational data,
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We invite you to join us for an information-packed, educational opportunity with the Dell Compellent-VMware virtualization team. Building the Dell private cloud with advanced server and storage virtualization Dell Solutions Tour – North America, November 2011 We invite you to join us for an information-packed, educational opportunity with the Dell Compellent-VMware virtualization team. Reserve your spot today and see first-hand how Dell and VMware enable business leaders to solve their virtualization problems and deliver cost-effective solutions with a next-generation server and storage architecture. You’ll learn: How Dell Compellent virtualized storage reduces storage capital and operating costs How VMware vSphere
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Virtualization: Thin on Thin Provisioning – Good Idea or Recipe for Disaster? I was part of a panel at a recent GreenPages event and a question was asked by the audience regarding best practices for thin provisioning in a virtual environment. More specifically, the question was, what is the best practice regarding thin on thin storage provisioning? First, let me provide a bit of background on the question. Thin Provisioning is essentially a process for “faking out” an operating system or other platform in such a way that you make it believe it has more storage available than what truly
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