Where The Cloud Will Grow in 2012: Look Back at 2011 2012 is still newborn. But the year holds much promise for cloud computing’s ascendancy in the public’s regard and in the business world’s harnessing of its assets. Looking back at 2011 sheds light on three areas where progress might be made this year: open [...]
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Cloudability Closes $1.1 Million Investment Round
Cloudability Closes $1.1 Million Investment Round Led by Trinity Ventures and Walden VC, Seed Financing Will Enable Cloudability to Meet a Growing Demand for the Management of Cloud Costs and Services PORTLAND, OR – December 22, 2011 – Cloudability, the easy way to manage and monitor all of your cloud costs in one place, today [...]
15 Excellent Cloud Performance and Vulnerability Monitoring Companies
15 Excellent Cloud Performance and Vulnerability Monitoring Companies Here is our updated list of 15 cloud based companies that provide excellent cloud monitoring services. Firehost Scan and monitor over 5,000 vulnerabilities, including the – SANS Top 20. Cloud Server & vulnerability monitoring helps ensure your website is protected from identify theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses [...]
Ninefold and Rackspace Battle for Australian Startup Mind Space
Ninefold and Rackspace Battle for Australian Startup Mind Space Last month American cloud computing service provider Rackspace, in an effort to expand its presence in the Australian market, announced a deal with early stage venture capitalists Pollenizer to offer Australian start-ups free hosting worth $2,000 a month for their first year of operations. Now, Rackspace’s [...]
Infographic: Generation Cloud
Generation Cloud The Study, ‘Generation Cloud’, commissioned by Rackspace in association with the centre of Creative and Social Technology (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London, analysed the ‘connected’ lives of everyday people to reveal what we are hosting and sharing in the cloud. Source: Rackspace Hosting
Free “Point-and-Click” Cloud Migrations with Racemi Cloud Path
Free “Point-and-Click” Cloud Migrations with Racemi Cloud Path Beta opens for on-boarding to public cloud providers ATLANTA, October 18, 2011 – Migrating existing servers to the cloud is now point-and-click easy –- and free for the next 30 days for the first 100 customers — with a new online beta migration service from Racemi. Racemi [...]
The IaaS Management Market: Evolution, Vendors and More
The IaaS Management Market: Evolution, Vendors and More A lot have already been said about the false cloud use where the IaaS platform utilized as an hosting extension of the IT organization’s data center and not taking advantage of the elasticity benefits to generate a cost effective and scalable IT operation. Using the public IaaS [...]
3 Handy Cloud Computing Price Comparison Engines
3 Handy Cloud Computing Price Comparison Engines We’ve researched a number of sites for the best cloud specific price comparison search engines. And we’ve come up with 3 of them which should help you in determining the best service for the best price. If you run a small, medium or large business you should be [...]
Rackspace Headquarters Tour with Rackspace Cloud President
Rackspace Headquarters Tour with Rackspace Cloud President Video with Lew Moorman, president of Rackspace Cloud. Credit To Robert Scoble/Scobleizer
Akamai Launches Global NetAlliance Partner Program
Company helps systems integrators, application and infrastructure service providers, and technology partners to address the challenges of doing business in the cloud CAMBRIDGE, MA – July 18, 2011 – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud optimization services, announced today its NetAlliance Partner Program designed for global IT solution providers to integrate [...]
What Do Small and Mid-sized Cloud Computing Companies Need To Begin Operations?
What Do Small and Mid-sized Cloud Computing Companies Need To Begin Operations? “Cloud Computing” is one of the most popular tech buzzwords out there now, and completes with “Nanotechnology” as the leading technology of the future. In spite of some highly-publicized failures (See: Should You Be Concerned? A List of Recent Cloud Computing Failures – [...]
Cloud Computing – Threat or Opportunity? Part 1
Cloud Computing – Threat or Opportunity? Part 1 Threat – an indication or warning of probable trouble Opportunity – a good position, chance, or prospect, as for advancement or success A new technology, a new way of thinking, a new environment, a paradigm shift – these are often threats to established players who dominate the landscape. However, these same things often offer opportunities for others to thrive. Consider the dinosaurs. [...]
Update: Rackspace Discontinues Reseller Client Support
Update: Rackspace Discontinues Reseller Client Support We are discontinuing 24×7 Client Support to resellers’ end customers. To more clearly identify who is authorized to act on behalf of an account, Rackspace will no longer discuss account related issues or provide account specific support to individuals that are not our direct customers. We will stop providing [...]
When Industry Heavyweights Get Together – Some Takeaways From Interop 2011
Some Takeaways from Interop 2011 When industry heavyweights get together, you can be assured of some insights on where the industry is and where it is going. The same is true for cloud computing, and we have already covered a few such events before, including those scheduled to be held in the near future. Scheduled [...]
