Overcoming Complexity and Dynamics to Move Data Centers to the Cloud IT will never be the same. Analysts expect that IT budgets will not be growing in 2012. Since the last financial crisis an ongoing volatile economy has been pushing IT professionals to do more with less, increasing the amount of delivered business projects with [...]
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Piston Cloud Debuts First OpenStack OS
Piston Cloud Debuts First OpenStack OS In a move set to make waves for VMWare, Piston Cloud Computing Inc.came out with their Piston Enterprise OS, the first OpenStack-based OS in the industry. Announced on Wednesday (18 January 2012), the new OS which is to be called pentOS is set to offer datacenter-owning enterprises a smoother [...]
How to Build a Private Cloud
How to Build a Private Cloud Despite it being so easy to just hook into the public cloud by going to Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other public cloud vendors, a private cloud offers a bit more control to your virtualization and automation efforts. Many people have already tried it and posted up how they did [...]
Red Hat CloudForms Infrastructure-as-a-Service: Build Clouds Without Limits
Red Hat CloudForms Infrastructure-as-a-Service: Build Clouds Without Limits Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is about delivering self-service infrastructure— which is to say resources like compute, storage, and networking—to users in a managed, governed, and secure way. Many organizations are getting into cloud computing by building a private1 IaaS cloud that lets them maintain more direct control over their [...]
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Beta Now Available
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Beta Now Available Latest Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization release includes new advanced virtualization management features and industry-leading performance and scalability Mumbai – August 18, 2011 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the release of the Beta of Red Hat Enterprise [...]
Market Report: Augmenting Data Backup and Recovery
Augmenting Data Backup and Recovery with System-level Protection Download this white paper and learn how system-level protection can help your business keep data secure, available, and organized. File-level recovery on its own, while an important mainstay in data protection best practices, is an incomplete strategy when it comes to meeting today’s stringent recovery time objectives [...]
InstaCompute: Simple & Instant Cloud Computing
InstaCompute: Simple & Instant Cloud Computing Overview: InstaCompute is an upcoming cloud solution from Indian Telecom Giant, Tata Communications, provisioning raw computing resources on-demand by offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions for cutting edge application development & testing, scalable web applications, cost effective and on –demand computing power whenever, wherever you need it. InstaCompute [...]
IT Security is Integral to Cloud Policy Planning
IT Security is Integral to Cloud Policy Planning You’ve seen the movie version: a crack team of hardened (but lovable) thieves exercise their wits and prowess to break into a super-secure facility in order to steal a computer with data that will put away even worse bad guys and save an orphan or two as [...]
Acronis And Red Hat Partner To Enable Expanded Virtualization Capabilities For Enterprises
Acronis and Red Hat Partner to Enable Expanded Virtualization Capabilities for Enterprises RALEIGH, N.C. and WOBURN, MASS., – March 14, 2011 – Red Hat, Inc., the (NYSE: RHT) world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Acronis, a leading provider of backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that [...]
Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars: iCloud
Update: Acquired by Apple Xcerion Develops Internet OS Which Provides More Than SaaS Xcerion AB is not a newly established company, really, it was founded in 2001 by Daniel Arthursson but attracted public attention in 2008 and 2009 when it started its Internet OS as a Web 2.0 service over the Internet. Back in 2001, [...]
Enterprise Cloud Solution Runs Order-to-Cash Billing Operations
Enterprise Cloud Solution Runs Order-to-Cash Billing Operations Cycle30 utilizes the enterprise-grade cloud platform from SunGard Availability Services for its billing services for telecom, cable and utility operators in North America. Jim Dunlap, president of Cycle30, addresses why cloud computing is an integral part of the company’s plans. Last year, Cycle30 adopted a cloud computing solution. [...]
New Cloud Startup Investment in Nasuni
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 [...]
Recent Developments in Private Clouds – Nimbula
Recent Developments in Private Clouds. While most of the initial interest in cloud computing focused on companies that offered their cloud services for businesses to use as they need, there has recently been a shift towards so-called private clouds. These private clouds leverage an existing data centre infrastructure to provide scalable infrastructure throughout the business, [...]
Engine Yard Announces Open Source Software Community Grant Program
Company Champions Open Source Developers With Funding SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – December 1, 2010) – Engine Yard, the leading cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service for Ruby on Rails, today announced the Engine Yard Open Source Software (OSS) Community Grant program. This program aims to help critical projects and OSS contributors gain traction while growing their user base [...]
Cloud vs. VPS vs. Shared Hosting – Part 1
A lot of startups and SMBs need access to very basic server resources to host their website. They don’t require cloud based REST APIs, automatic scaling or the ability to run their application as part of a high-performance compute cluster. These are your traditional content providers that sell products in on-line shops, host blogs with [...]
