By Maureen O'Gara  In the interest of selling more widgetry to more people, IBM has transformed one of its mainframes into what it calls Blue Insight, a private cloud packed initially with a petabyte of structured and unstructured data that 200,000 of its sales, product development and manufacturing peop... Nov. 20, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 346 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Joyent, whose customers include ABC Disney, CNN, The Gap, Facebook, LinkedIn and Yahoo, developed its own custom OS and data center virtualization technology, which creates a multi-tenant cloud. It’s supposed to deliver more than 70% utilization, which is eight times more than industry... Nov. 20, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 412 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Salesforce.com is going the way of Facebook and Twitter with a reportedly secure private social networking application called Chatter that companies are supposed to use internally so their people can “collaborate” in real-time, but potentially the techzoid equivalent of the old-fashion... Nov. 20, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 376 |
By Maureen O'Gara  RightScale, the cloud manager, plans to support Windows Azure and let customers deploy RightScale-managed applications and take advantage of Azure’s particular properties. It said it would support Azure infrastructure-level services through its new Service Management API like it does A... Nov. 20, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 360 |
By Maureen O'Gara  LTech, a little friend of Google’s, has spun up the first Power Panel for Google Apps to give enterprises moving to the cloud central administrative functionality. It’s also announced Single Sign-On for Google Apps now that Google Apps are pushing deeper into the enterprise. The Power ... Nov. 20, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 318 |
By Maureen O'Gara  AMD wanted to be paid for its antitrust claims. Intel wanted to be paid to let AMD’s joint venture make x86 chips. Months of negotiation had been futile. Intel’s former CFO, now chief administrative officer Andy Bryant, who was recruited in September to fill in for general counsel Bruc... Nov. 20, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 303 |
By Maureen O'Gara  They say nobody else can hand you everything you need in minutes. There’s nothing comparable. Still they’re expecting only the usual single-digit percentage upgrades to their paid software. Infobright’s self-managing software is supposed to reduce administrative effort by up to 90%, le... Nov. 20, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 328 |
By Maureen O'Gara  When Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world’s biggest telco, took a piece of the $10 million E series funding going into OpSource earlier this year, the pair reportedly didn’t know they would be going into the cloud business together – or that it would be on the same day that ... Nov. 20, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 284 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Turns out Intel apparently didn’t give Globalfoundries, the AMD-Arab joint venture now making all of AMD’s processors, an x86 license when Intel and AMD settled their outstanding litigation last week. Nope. What Intel and Globalfoundaries have is an “agreement” that nobody will explain... Nov. 20, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 356 |
By Joe Austin  The Nexsan SATABeast is an enterprise-class RAID system designed to deliver exceptional performance, reliability and simplified operation in a very dense storage footprint. With a customer reported system reliability rating of more than 99.9%, the high density SATABeast is the premier ... Nov. 20, 2009 02:27 PM EST Reads: 249 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Except for a few companies that are clearly teacher’s pet, nobody will be going into production on Windows Azure, the Microsoft cloud, until January 1. Until then it remains a technology preview, with tens of thousands of developers already using it according to Microsoft’s chief softw... Nov. 20, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 359 |
By Tony Bishop  There are a variety of applications that support numerous business lines across an enterprise. These applications exhibit a wide range of operational characteristics as they service the diverse business demands. That diversity is the key to business success, but it has consequences. As... Nov. 20, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 256 |
By Cloud News Desk  "The more I look at what they've done, the more I realize they've built a business platform more than a technology platform," said Sam Ramji, Vice President of Strategy at Sonoa Systems, as it was announced today that MindTouch, the open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, has ... Nov. 20, 2009 07:45 AM EST Reads: 436 |
By Mark O'Neill  Techcrunch reports that Google has some implicit suggestions about newspapers, based on the drop-down suggestions it gives when you begin a search with "Newspapers are." It's a nice example of the hive mind at work. But check out the first suggestion Google gives you if you type "Cloud... Nov. 19, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 558 |
By Liz McMillan  Exalead, a global leader of information
access solutions and search-based
applications for the enterprise and on the web, today announced that
RealTravel.com, an award winning travel site that helps people plan trips
with advice from other travelers, will use Exalead CloudView to d... Nov. 19, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 449 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  Ulitzer.com announced today the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at the "Ulitzer Live! New Media Power Panel" at the Santa Clara Convention Ce... Nov. 19, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,138 |
By Yeshim Deniz  MindTouch, the open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, today extended its popular enterprise collaboration platform to the cloud. The new offering makes it easy for business power users with no
programming knowledge to mashup data from existing enterprise systems into real ti... Nov. 19, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 425 |
By Virtualization News  Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) announced the appointment of Atish Gude to the company's Board of Directors. A seasoned mobile broadband executive, Gude brings more than a decade of strategic telecommunications experience to the OK Labs Board. Most recently, Gude served as Senior Vice Presi... Nov. 19, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 514 |
By Cloud News Desk  Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference -- Model Metrics, the leader in cloud computing services for the enterprise and a premier partner of salesforce.com, today announced the availability of Cloud Converter for Force.com on the salesforce.com AppExchange. With Cloud Converter, Salesforc... Nov. 19, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 364 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Having pushed the boundaries of modern technology, ScaleOut Software, the distributed data grid start-up, can now link distributed data grids at different locations into a single logically coherent grid. Seems a simple thing but it’s been illusive and ScaleOut says it’s the first to ma... Nov. 19, 2009 03:30 AM EST Reads: 622 |
By Liz McMillan  The rise of RIAs and cloud computing, and the increased diversity of Internet-connected devices are spawning the need for contextual applications that take advantage of specific functionality offered by operating systems and devices. The Flash Platform enables developers to create cont... Nov. 18, 2009 07:15 PM EST Reads: 969 |
By Oracle News Desk  Are you facing critical business and IT challenges? Do you have pressing deadlines to meet these challenges? Do you need solution ideas FAST? Nov. 18, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 427 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Immunet, developer of next generation AntiVirus technologies, announced today that it has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Altos Ventures with participation from Atlanta-based TechOperators. Ho Nam, General Partner of Altos Ventures, has joined the board of ... Nov. 18, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 369 |
By Steve Lesem  Mezeo Software launched the Cloud Storage Strategy monthly newsletter. Sponsored by Mezeo, the Cloud Storage Strategy newsletter and blog focus on Cloud Storage insights and observations from industry thought leaders. The Business Model Toolkit helps Service Providers assess the benef... Nov. 18, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 555 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Salesforce.com unveiled Salesforce Chatter, a new secure enterprise collaboration application and social development platform. Salesforce Chatter will revolutionize the workplace by leveraging the social networking models made popular by the consumer Web, allowing any company to collab... Nov. 18, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 555 |
 Elastra Cloud Server helps IT organizations leverage the economics of cloud computing, while preserving existing architectural practices and corporate policies. Elastra offers a free edition of ECS running on Amazon Web Services and an enterprise edition for private data centers. I was... Nov. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 307 |
By Pat Romanski  E-Government initiatives aimed at modernizing federal information systems are fraught with risk, according to a new study sponsored by CA, Inc. and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, Cyber Security Mega Trends: Study of IT leaders in the U.S. federal government. Released CA's IT Gover... Nov. 18, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 644 |
By Dana Gardner  The thin-client offerings from the Palo Alto, Calif. company include the HP t5740 and HP t5745 Flexible Series, which feature Intel Atom N280 processors and an Intel GL40 chipset. They also provide eight USB 2.0 ports and an optional PCI expansion module for easy upgrades. The Flexible... Nov. 18, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 536 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Trusted by Fortune 500 multinationals and national governments, Astadia's rigorous engagement methodology was developed over two decades of experience with transformational client projects. Many firms claim that customers can save money merely by moving applications to the cloud. Astad... Nov. 18, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 400 |
By Chevy Weiss  Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui, today announced that it will reveal its application platform atop Windows Azure and its development framework, VWG platforms offers a push-button .NET desktop legacy application migration path to Windows Azure. With VWG enterprises will be ab... Nov. 18, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 362 |
By Nadezhda Lukyanova  This is a second article related to CloudFront Private Content feature that allows you restrict the access to your content. Apparently CloudFront private content configuration is not straight forward and involves many steps as described in our previous post. You have to configure your ... Nov. 18, 2009 12:24 PM EST Reads: 241 |
By Yeshim Deniz  OpSource announced three innovative OpSource Cloud partner programs that offer incentives, discounts and easy technology on-ramps for individuals and companies of all sizes looking to enter the lucrative cloud computing space. Available for online purchase by the hour from www.opsource... Nov. 18, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 485 |
By Pat Romanski  Norris has over 20 years of enterprise software experience with leading virtualization and storage technology companies, both private and public organizations. During this time, he has catapulted start-ups including Rainfinity, the leader in network file virtualization acquired by EMC,... Nov. 18, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 496 |
By Maureen O'Gara  A court in China, where most software is pirated, has ordered Microsoft to stop selling the Chinese versions of its operating systems because they infringe on fonts owned by a Chinese company called Zhongyi Electronic.
Microsoft says it has a license from Zhongyi and will appeal.
... Nov. 18, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 366 |
By Yeshim Deniz  The strategy includes deployment of Salesforce.com and Aprimo Marketing Studio(TM), two best of breed cloud solutions. In addition to implementation and product integration, the resulting end-to-end sales and marketing solution offered by CoreMatrix includes review and optimization of ... Nov. 18, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 435 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Company details strategy and road map for developers to move, enhance and transform applications for the cloud. Microsoft today announced the availability of the Windows Azure platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). In his opening keynote address, Ray Ozzie... Nov. 17, 2009 09:15 PM EST Reads: 670 |
By Liz McMillan  Cycle
Computing, providing proven, secure and flexible high performance
computing (HPC) and open source solutions in the cloud, today announced
that the increasing enterprise demand for HPC and cloud computing is
fueling its rapid expansion across industries. Cycle helps cutting-e... Nov. 17, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 513 |
By Yeshim Deniz  iWay Software, an Information Builders company, today announced its robust, enterprise integration solutions are now available on-demand with the release of iWay Cloud Services for Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2). iWay Software's on-demand solution dramatically reduces administrat... Nov. 17, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 588 |
By Liz McMillan  SugarCRM today announced that it will offer its CRM applications on Windows Azure to enable its customers and value-added resellers to benefit from the real-time scalability, high availability and on-demand infrastructure of Microsoft Corp.’s cloud platform for web applications and ser... Nov. 17, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 628 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Zeus Technology, the application traffic management folk, has ported the weeks-old edition of its web traffic management widgetry to Amazon EC2 with Amazon's help - including how to word Tuesday's announcement - despite the fact that Amazon has its own unashamedly rudimentary load bala... Nov. 17, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 779 |