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- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloudniceveryniceMicrosoft's elastic cloudGee, we had elastic Wow!Now we are going to get the elastic cloud.Metaphor watch anyone?Get ready for a whole new blob of Bloat from the people who invented Bloat.Rule of thumb: If Microsoft promises something, the promise is, with near certainty, false.The credibility...
- Tags: elastic cloud, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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- What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
- So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Next year is THE year for cloud computing
- Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...
- Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula
- News items 2009-11-17
- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
- Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service RDS. The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web...
- Tags: MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, EC2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Vulnerability Seen in Amazon's Cloud-Computing
- Leading cloud-computing services may be vulnerable to eavesdropping and malicious attacks, according to research that shows it is possible for attackers to precisely map where a target's data is physically within the "Cloud" and then use various tricks to gather intelligence. The study probed Amazon's industry-leading Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2)...
- Tags: Vulnerability, New York, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Security, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-10-24
- HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)
- Now here's a ringing endorsement of cloud computing......"HP "wouldn?t put anything material in nature outside the firewall." "Sure gives one confidence, doesn't it? And this company is trying sell people on the cloud...but its CEO doesn't trust it? Nice. :-(Translation: We make a lot of money selling overpriced, under utilizedservers...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., server
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Teradata unveils cloud strategy, answer for Oracle's Exadata machine
- Data warehousing giant Teradata is outlining its cloud computing strategy including an internal cloud service and a public offering via Amazon Web Services. In addition, Teradata is rolling out an appliance it claims will provide a big performance boost. The announcements, timed for Teradata's partner conference in...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Performance Claim, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Biggest cloud of all: Amazon EC2 makes about $220 million a year
- Anyone wondering how the commercial cloud computing business model is working should look no further than Amazon Web Services. Randy Bias just published estimates that AWS is pulling in about $220 million annually for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offerings. He bases his conclusions on "actual verified...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon EC2, Randy Bias, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Cast Iron, Amazon partner to push migration to EC2 cloud
- You've no doubt heard all the buzz about virtual data centers and doing business in the cloud, as well as all the money that can be saved. But when it comes time to do make the move, there are a lot of things to think about. Will...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Migration, Cloud, Registration Information, Data Center Virtualization, Software As A Service (SaaS), Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Supporting Cloud Computing With the Virtual Block Store System
- The fast development of cloud computing systems stimulate the needs for a standalone block storage system, which can provide persistent block storage services to the virtual machines maintained by the clouds. This paper presents the Virtual Block Store VBS System, a standalone block storage system built on the basis of...
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers 2009-08-27
- Amazon lowers fees on reserved EC2 instances
- Amazon is lowering prices for reserve instances of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services to entice more enterprises to sign up for longer-term deals. The reserve instances were a big deal in March when Amazon rolled them out. In a nutshell, big enterprise customers can sign up...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Amazon: Shares tumble late as Q2 sales fall short; quiet about Kindle
- Amazon made headlines this week by looking ahead with the announced acquisition of online shoe retailer Zappos. But the second quarter performance was all about the Kindle e-Book reader. The online retailer today reported second quarter net income of $142 million, or 32 cents per share, down...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- BMC to link up with Amazon Web Services for hybrid cloud deployments
- BMC Software on Wednesday will detail plans to collaborate with Amazon Web Services to ease hybrid cloud infrastructure deployments. Despite a lot of chatter about cloud computing most enterprises will take a hybrid approach to their data center and link so called private clouds---also known as your...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Data Centers, It Management, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Automated Control in Cloud Computing: Challenges and Opportunities
- With advances in virtualization technology, virtual machine services offered by cloud utility providers are becoming increasingly powerful, anchoring the ecosystem of cloud services. Virtual computing services are attractive in part because they enable customers to acquire and release computing resources for guest applications adaptively in response to load surges and...
- Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Virtual Machine, Computing Service, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2009-06-19
- Cloud Computing for the Enterprise
- Cloud Computing is a set of IT/Business application services that companies provide for a pay-per use or rental basis. Storage, servers, and applications also fall in this realm of Cloud Computing and are available on-demand basis. Therefore procuring hardware, software and applications can just be done in hours unlike the...
- Tags: Clerisoft, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Data Centers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- White papers 2009-06-17
- Cloud computing and open source face-off
- Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...
- Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- Siemen's Global SuccessFactors Cloud
- The new Siemens talent managing environment being deployed by SuccessFactors is more like the entire troposphere than a cloud solution; 420k users across 80 countries in 20 languages will be linked and unified in one giant environment. Replacing existing multiple HR talent systems...
- Tags: Strategy, Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., Siemens AG, Siemen, Talent Management Systems, Employee Central, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds
- Combining platform as a service PaaS with a built-in ability to integrate and manage hybrid cloud deployments, TIBCO Software today threw its hat in the cloud computing ring by taking its middleware and Java development and deployment platforms to new heights. Coinciding with the JavaOne conference and...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., PaaS, TIBCO Silver, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Service Level Management, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Cloud Networking Services
- Cloud computing is a compelling way to deliver web-based and non-web-based applications that better utilize the physical infrastructure, while lowering costs by moving from silos of expensive customized servers to racks of cost-effective ones. Businesses of all sizes are leveraging cloud infrastructure for collaborating with their customers, partners and suppliers....
- Tags: Network, Citrix Systems Inc., Cloud, Social Networking, Cloud Computing, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Accounting and Billing for Federated Cloud Infrastructures
- Emerging Cloud computing infrastructures provide computing resources on demand based on postpaid principles. For example, the RESERVOIR project develops an infrastructure capable of delivering elastic capacity that can automatically be increased or decreased in order to cost-efficiently fulfill established Service Level Agreements. This infrastructure also makes it possible for a...
- Tags: Accounting, Billing, Data Center, Infrastructure, Data Centers, Operational Accounting, Storage, Financial Services, Hardware, Data Management, Finance
- White papers 2009-05-29
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