Public Beta announced for Nimbula Director When it comes to cloud management and service system Nimbula is a well-recognized name in the field. While most of the IT world is snoozing off to the upcoming holiday season, Nimbula has released its Nimbula Director Beta version in the true spirit of Christmas! The software is an effective cloud management tool which targets most enterprise customers. Nimbula Director brings services similar to Amazon EC-2 like services to its users but with tighter security. The makers of the software have successfully combined the important ingredients of scalability, flexibility, security and have come up
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LONDON, November 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — – Half Year Results Reveal Increase in Revenues and Profits as Hosting Market Shifts to the Cloud A 36% rise in revenues has helped cloud computing and managed hosting services company iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM) report a 105% increase in profit after tax of GBP1.0m (H1 2010: GBP0.5m squared) in its half yearly results to September 30 2010. Angus MacSween, CEO, iomart Group stated: “In the first half of the financial year we continued to successfully grow both the size and quality of our customer base. iomart is one of the very few, trusted
Leadership Council for Information Advantage Provides Roadmap for Intelligent Governance Strategies in a Cloudy World HOPKINTON, Mass., Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today released a new report from the Leadership Council for Information Advantage that explores how the use of public and hybrid cloud computing services are transforming information governance risk factors and will increasingly challenge IT creativity in developing new strategies for policy compliance and enforcement. Enterprises moving to cloud computing are looking to move to the private cloud first. According to a CIO Market Pulse Survey conducted
Revenue Growth of 46% to $714 Million; GAAP Operating Margin of 13.2%; Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 28.6%; Trailing Twelve Months Operating Cash Flows Growth of 8% to $1.1 Billion; Trailing Twelve Months Free Cash Flows Growth of 39% to $1.1 Billion PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – October 18, 2010) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced financial results for the third quarter 2010: Revenues for the third quarter were $714 million, an increase of 46% from the third quarter of 2009. GAAP operating income for the third quarter was $94 million, compared to
Hybrid Clouds Hybrid? True that it is getting noisier with cloud computing. And in clouds, hybrid cloud is making more noise! In giving the meanings to hybrid, dictionaries mention that it is an offspring of two animals and more similar synonyms. Going further, they use the word heterogeneous in origin and composition, two different types of components doing the same function. Hybrid clouds, as we know, depict the combined use (benefits/problems) of private cloud and public cloud. Are there two different types of components in Public and Private Cloud? Are they heterogeneous in nature? Leaving these questions to geeks (and
