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- Will one company control the cloud?
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, tech executives question whether a few global companies will control all of cloud computing with a single set of standards, or if trust and the desire for data portability will mean many small clouds. Speakers include Barry Lynn of 3tera and Vance...
- Tags: Cloud, Quality, Business Operations, Office 2.0, mozy, 3tera, monopoly, cloud computing
- Videos 2008-09-08
- 3Tera powers the grid for Web apps
- I have been reading a pre-release copy of Nick Carr's forthcoming (January 2008) book, "The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny." He makes a clear case that computing resources distributed via vast grids will transform economics, business and culture in the 21st century just as electric utilities did in the...
- Tags: Web, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Pricing Strategy, Grid, 3Tera, AppLogic 2.1, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
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- What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?
- What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?Cloud Computing Definition in 4 wordsOther people's virtual serversWhat is the Cloud? What....is computing? These two terms are definitive. We don't need someone trying to define something that is defined already by its terms.Cloud computing is accessing your IT resources through the cloud. The term...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- Citrix C3 â€" Where are the partners?
- Citrix put some significant new meat on the bones of its Citrix Cloud Center (C3) offering last week but left behind one crucial element. Who are the partners delivering this offering? At its annual customer get together, Citrix Synergy 2009, the company fulfilled our prediction of the true...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Citrix C3 Strategy, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Internet, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- The Open Cloud Manifesto: Whats Up With That?
- This morning, to a lot of pre-launch buzz, the Open Cloud Manifesto OCM, spearheaded by IBM, launched officially, much to no one's surprise. The idea behind the OCM is that there exist a body consisting of many companies - and in the future, many, many companies, that would semi-formally agree...
- Tags: Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?
- IBM and other players on Monday will launch its Open Cloud Manifesto, a call to make cloud computing "open as all other IT technologies." But the list of companies that didn't sign on to the manifesto is telling. Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce never signed on. Google was on a preliminary...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Standards, Manifesto, IT Industry, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- News to know: March Madness, Chrome beta, Sony-Google, Android
- Larry Dignan: March Madness meets IT: We're guinea pigs Matthew Miller: Follow all the March Madness action on your mobile phone Garett Rogers: Google releases new beta version of Chrome Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Google Chrome 2.0 Beta - Fast. Fast! FAST!!! ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Beta, Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Open Source
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- The race to 99.999 percent uptime: 3Tera ups the cloud SLA ante
- The race to 99.999 percent uptime: 3Tera ups the cloud SLA anteAnd when a Backbone Provider goes down?What good will 5 nines do you then? Putting enterprise, mission critical apps in the hands of an offsite vendor is a gamble. Even productivity apps - imagine no one in...
- Tags: Service level management, 3Tera Inc., uptime, SLA, downtime
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- The race to 99.999 percent uptime: 3Tera ups the cloud SLA ante
- Those cloud computing service level agreements are getting better all the time and that's good news for enterprise customers. 3Tera, which offers cloud software and services, unveiled a 99.999 availability service level agreement for its AppLogic Virtual Private Datacenter service. In April, the 3Tera...
- Tags: SLA, 3Tera Inc., Uptime, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know
- So what is the cloud, exactly? Industry experts would like to know, according to a panel discussion today at Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. The panel, which consisted of six industry leaders whose respective companies are...
- Tags: Service, Cloud, JA, BL, PK, KH, AA, VC, MC, Hosting Industry, Cloud Computing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- What is cloud computing?
- We've been reading quite a bit about cloud computing recently. Many find all of this chatter confusing because they really don't have a clear idea of what this is. To tell you the truth, I hear so many different definitions from so many different sources that I find myself confused...
- Tags: Supplier, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- VMware's cloud computing announcements
- VMware's cloud computing announcementsPlease explain the concept to a non cloud proI am a manager of a company wanting to base our software solutions in the cloud. I need clarification as to how these initiatives and seemingly lacking standards will affect my company in the future. My concerne right now...
- Tags: Channel management, desktop virtualization, Amazon EC2, cloud computing, VMware Inc., cloud computing announcement, supplier
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- 3Tera releases AppLogic 2.4
- Many providers of application virtualization or management tools for virtualized environments that support orchestration and automation are now speaking about their technology using the cloud computing catch phrase. While it is clear that large organizations are approaching cloud computing slowly and carefully, smaller organizations, ones that do not have a...
- Tags: 3Tera Inc., Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- IBM, Amazon foreshadow a bevy of connecting clouds; Is Microsoft surrounded?
- If there were any lingering doubts about whether Amazon Web Services were enterprise ready they dissolved this week once IBM became a partner. And now that Amazon and IBM have teamed up a picture of multiple computing clouds is emerging. Amazon Web Services teamed up with IBM...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- Riding herd on the cloud with DataSynapse's Federator
- DataSynapse has launched a beta program for extensions to their DataSynapse Federator 1.5 allowing organizations using that tool to put the flexiblity and power of "cloud computing" to work on their current applications. (I've posted on DataSynapse several times in the past. For more information on the company please see...
- Tags: DataSynapse, Cloud Computing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- 3Tera releases AppLogic 2.4, its cloud computing platform
- 3Tera said Tuesday released the latest version of its AppLogic cloud computing platform and added Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris support. 3Tera is a cloud computing player that operates behind the scenes relative to the big vendors such as IBM, HP and Amazon. But 3Tera has been...
- Tags: 3Tera Inc., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- What's next after server virtualization? Orchestration
- What's next after server virtualization? OrchestrationWhy not use... Grid based computing via VMsMost of those items you ask/declare ARE available, with a bit of glue effort and getting APIs to talk together.http://www.3tera.com/ has a few neat items.Its not JUST Cloud computing...For instance: http://www.3tera.com/AppLogic/My work has some very neat things...
- Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, provisioning, virtualization, Orchestration, server virtualization, AppLogic, server
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Cloud computing: Will the financial geeks give it a boost?
- Cloud computing: Will the financial geeks give it a boost?"Another money-saving idea...""... which is not in widespread use and which will involve disrupting everything we're doing now and negotiating many new contracts.Tell me where to sign.And please return to my office at 2:00 to discuss the expense reductions which will...
- Tags: financial, cloud computing, cloud company
- Discussion threads 2008-10-31
- Enterprise readiness of Cloud ratcheting up
- Enterprise readiness of Cloud ratcheting upThe cloud's been readyWe have been running our business on Amazon for almost two years now and have enjoyed much better quality of service under the Amazon "beta" than we did from Godaddy with a "solid SLA". The SLA isn't what makes the service...
- Tags: Service level management, Enterprise Readiness
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- Citrix aims high with XenServer 5, cloud center
- As VMWorld moves into full swing, rival Citrix launched a major upgrade of its core XenServer and based upon it a cloud computing infrastructure for service providers. Both are available now. Citrix's XenServer 5, based upon the open source Xen hypervisor, adds more than 100 new features...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Business Services, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
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