How Cloud Computing is Like Transforming a ’68 Dodge Dart I’ve spent a lot of time lately in front of customers trying to help them understand what cloud technology means and, more important, how it can help their businesses be more efficient, effective and better able to meet or exceed their goals and objectives. In [...]
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Cloud Video: Dispelling the Hype Around Private Storage Cloud Environments
Cloud Video: Dispelling the Hype Around Private Storage Cloud Environments Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner Speakers: Stanley Zaffos, Dan Galvan Type: Video (26 minutes) Discover how Cloud Storage can help you manage your business more efficiently. Companies are constantly battling two equally important yet seemingly contradictory objectives: data growth and constrained budgets. In addition, businesses [...]
Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 3
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 [...]
The Cloud Awaits: Storage For The Growing Virtualized Infrastructure
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 [...]
Federal Roadmap to Your Cloud
Federal Roadmap to Your Cloud Achieve Greater Efficiency and Contain Costs Today, the Federal government operates and maintains approximately 2,100 datacenters, with a mandate to reduce that number by 800 by 2015. With virtualization, this goal is achievable, especially because fewer than 15 percent of Federal x86 servers are currently virtualized, according to recent estimates. [...]
The Importance of Knowing the Difference Between Virtualization and Cloud Computing
The Importance of Knowing the Difference Between Virtualization and Cloud Computing Microsoft raised some eyebrows when Corporate VP Brad Anderson boldly proclaimed that, “Virtualizations is not cloud computing.” While this statement garnered a lot of buzz due to its timing – Anderson said this during the VMWorld annual event – that doesn’t make this statement [...]
To the Cloud? – Developing a Cloud Migration Strategy
To the Cloud? – Developing a Cloud Migration Strategy Following the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last year, it became pretty clear that cloud computing had risen to dominance. This was going to be the next big thing, and following Microsoft’s lead, the concept of “cloud” rose to the top of everyone’s mind. So it was [...]
IBM Extends Backup with New Cloud Services
IBM Extends Backup with New Cloud Services IBM has changed the way clients protect, store and retrieve their most critical data through its new cloud services. Disasters can cause significant damage to businesses and the company claims that the new IBM SmartCloud Resilience services allow clients to retrieve their most critical data in minutes versus [...]
The Beauty of the Cloud
Here is an older but still very insightful article contributed by Ray DePena What is cloud computing? What is the difference between a cloud and the internet? Some Twenty-One Experts Define Cloud Computing differently, and there are even more definitions out there. Among many that I’ve heard are some of the following: Cloud = Internet Cloud = [...]
Free Trial: Deploy Cloud Storage in Minutes with Gluster
Free Trial: Deploy Cloud Storage in Minutes Free yourself from the constraints of costly, hard to manage, monolithic storage environments.Deploy scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) to manage the explosion of unstructured data growth in cloud and virtualized environments. Gluster offers Virtual Storage Appliances for VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing you with a highly [...]
Energy Efficient Microservers from Dell for Cloud Computing Infrastructures
Energy Efficient Microservers from Dell for Cloud Computing Infrastructures Dell introduced its third generation of microservers, PowerEdge C5000 line, including the PowerEdge C5125 and C5220 for deploying shared infrastructure and cloud environments. This new series of custom designed microservers enable building cloud computing infrastructures that allow applications to run on individual dedicated physical servers without [...]
Top 25 European Cloud Computing Rising Stars: Zimory
Zimory Expands by Offering Carrier Grade Cloud Computing Solution Berlin-based Zimory GmbH is a cloud start-up, describing its core product as a Carrier Grade Cloud Computing solution suite that delivers end-to-end service for private, public and database cloud. Actually, the company is involved in Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) business allowing enterprises to transform [...]
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 [...]
Update – 3PAR Accepts Matching Acquisition Offer by Dell
Revised Transaction Valued at Approximately $1.8 Billion FREMONT, CA–(Marketwire – August 27, 2010) – 3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, today announced it has accepted a matching offer to be acquired by Dell for a price of $27 per share, or approximately $1.8 billion, net of 3PAR’s cash. Accordingly, 3PAR and [...]
Cloud Computing Firm VMware Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results Revenue Growth of 48%
PALO ALTO, CA, Jul 20, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — VMware, Inc. (VMW 72.42, -0.93, -1.27%) , the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, today announced financial results for the second quarter 2010: Revenues for the second quarter were $674 million, an increase of 48% from the [...]
