Virtualization vendors say cloud computing is the proverbial 'next big thing,' though it's not necessarily an IT priority yet.
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You can argue that clouds are fast becoming synonymous with SaaS, but MindTouch has launched its own cloud to serve up its open source collaboration solution.
November 19, 2009, 09:10 AM — Computerworld — PORTLAND, Ore. - Amazon.com Inc. is to high performance computing what McDonald's is to food: fast, cheap but with a limited menu.
The 1990's saw business IT move from mainframe computing to client-server setups—an architecture that reduced costs and enabled true, workgroup computing. The tradeoff, however, was hard-coded stacks of hardware, middleware, and applications that were inflexible and difficult to modify.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff flung some zingers in SugarCRM's direction in his new book "Behind the Cloud," so now the Cupertino cloud company is using its rival's annual Dreamforce conference as an opportunity to give as well as it got.
With every major vendor lining up to provide cloud computing services, the feeding frenzy is well under way. The only question is how many of them will survive what promises to be a rapid vetting process that should lead to another major round of industry consolidation.
NASA wants you to do its busywork. But NASA's busywork is just about the coolest out there.
LOS ANGELES--When Ray Ozzie penned his Internet Services Disruption memo back in 2005, he had a pretty good idea where the computing world was going. He just didn't know how Microsoft was going to get there.
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 4, 2009) - Nortel* (OTCBB:NRTLQ) is giving enterprises the opportunity to trial and evaluate its communications applications portfolio over the Internet using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud** (Amazon EC2).
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Companies are increasingly demanding that Web applications "move to the cloud" to reign in IT costs, reduce server sprawl and perhaps most importantly, help to ensure that your infrastructure is tuned to deliver an exceptional end-user experience for your customers. The challenge is to reap those benefits while ensuring top performance, keeping IT operations and development on the same page, and delivering enterprise level capabilities and scalability.
Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference — In a move to further expand and accelerate its presence in cloud computing, Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD – News ), the leader in Sales Performance Management (SPM), introduces its new and expanding suite of SPM solutions on the Force.com platform at Dreamforce ‘09.
Microsoft | Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud-computing platform goes live Jan. 1 | Seattle Times Newspaper
LOS ANGELES — In a major game changer for both the industry and the company, Microsoft has launched its cloud.
Intel's (INTC) 3.1% dividend yield could be a complete afterthought if your head is in the clouds. That is, cloud computing. After a recession, a technology often emerges that becomes the new gravity, says Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry. Last time it was the Internet; this time, he says, it's cloud computing. This next-generation technology uses distant servers for data storage and management. That allows for smaller devices that use less energy.
IBM said it will deploy an internal cloud computing environment to its more than 200,000 employees to give them access to a gamut of real-time critical business information, ranging from customer relationship information to regional sales trends, regardless of their location.
Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It’s especially difficult to make predictions about the future in a new, industry-changing discipline like cloud computing. Still, since that’s the task at hand, here is my view on how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010.
Joyent, the Californian provider of cloud computing solutions ¿ although they like to refer to that as delivering "web application hosting Infrastructure as a Service" ¿ today announced that it raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Intel Capital.
Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system.
Riverbed Technology has a plan to help companies accelerate access to applications and storage resources that are located in a cloud computing environment and delivered over the Internet to private data centers, distributed branch offices and mobile end users.
Analyst firm the Burton Group skewered Amazon's cloud computing service, saying it should not be used for applications that require advanced security and availability. The firm also accused Amazon of "will-not-discuss" policy when it came to specific details about its cloud data centers.
Byron Deeter of Bessemer Ventures has an update to his well-regarded Top Ten Laws for Being “SaaS-y”. Since we launched Altus’ Sales Process Optimization practice a few years ago, we have worked with a couple dozen SaaS clients. It was coincidental to see that Bessemer also has a connection with Mark Leslie who pioneered the Sales Learning Curve concept that permeates all of the Altus practices thanks to Mark graciously spending time with us a handful of years ago.
My podcast with SearchCloudComputing’s Carl Brooks (Twitter’s @eekygeeky) was so much fun. In this two-part podcast, Carl and I talk about all sorts of issues regarding the management of cloud computing – a critical part of EMA’s ‘Responsible Cloud’ approach to cloud computing. Of course I had too much to say to fit in just a single short burst, so this post is about part 2 of the podcast.
Leading the "Did you see this, Dave?" articles I received by e-mail last week was this piece by the Economist that provides a very interesting debate on cloud computing. The discussion was between Stephen Elop, the president of Microsoft's Business Division, and the never-boring Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com. Ding, ding, ding!
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft will try to sell companies and developers on the benefits of its new Windows Azure cloud computing platform, in preparation for its official rollout. But it looks like one of Azure's toughest customers will be Microsoft itself.
Elastra has announced the availability of its Cloud Server platform, which lets enterprises build public-private computing clouds, it said on Tuesday.
IBM on Monday launched a new cloud computing service that incorporates more than a petabyte of business-intelligence and analytics applications that will be first used by more than 200,000 of its own employees.
Trying to understand the basics of cloud computing is one matter but getting a grasp on the technologies across the different platforms is another issue entirely.
IBM and AT&T have both announced new services to compete for a share of the projected $46.4 billion market--a market predicted to grow to over $150 billion over the next 4 years--in the progressively crowded arena of cloud computing.
I've been blogging about cloud computing fairly often lately, and it is part of our focused topic for October and November on the Open Source at Intel website; however, I haven't really spent much time talking about the various definitions of cloud computing. Jim Kaskade recently compiled a large list of cloud computing definitions from various analysts and industry leaders, and I wanted to highlight a few of them.
I'm beginning to think that fears about cloud security are overblown. The reason: an intellectual framework is already in place for protecting data, applications, and connections. It's called encryption. What's evolving now, and isn't anywhere near fully baked, is a set of agreed-upon implementations and best practices. Today's post talks about some relevant and interesting work from Trend Micro and from
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