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Vordel’s Cloud Service Broker enables businesses to aggregate services between public and private clouds, and those of partners. Vordel officials say the product reduces businesses’ concerns around trust and reliability when using cloud services by bringing together services from the multiple domains and enabling companies to monitor and manage them.
Amazon Girds for Cloud Battle with Microsoft
Stating that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a solid footing in the infrastructure-as-a-service business, Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of Amazon.com, noted that new companies entering the cloud computing space will need to compete on the merits to gain credibility.
Large Crowd Gains Insight into Future of Cloud Computing
Most of the 30 or so sessions on Day 1 of the Cloud Computing Conference Expo were well-attended, and the three main presentations in the late afternoon were packed to standing-room-only status. That there exists plenty of hunger for information on this topic is a no-brainer.
Cisco, EMC, VMware Join Forces for New vBlock Cloud Systems
The coalition -- along with processor maker Intel -- also announced that it is starting up a new, shared-equity company called Acadia to handle the specifics of marketing the new vBlock systems. vBlocks are preintegrated, preconfigured computing systems consisting of networkware from Cisco, storage/security/system management from EMC, and virtualization software from VMware.
Unisys Unveils Private Cloud Offering
Four months after rolling out its Secure Cloud Solution for public cloud customers, Unisys is offering the software and services in a prepackaged solution for enterprises that want to build a private cloud computing environment. The move is the latest step by Unisys to offer a full cloud computing portfolio, and will be followed by a hybrid offering in 2010.
Yahoo Puts GeoCities Out of Its Misery
Yahoo made good on its long-standing promise to pull the plug on GeoCities, its free Web hosting service, later in 2009. Originally acquired by Yahoo for $3.6 billion in 1999, GeoCities lost ground to social-networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, as well as blogs, all of which offered the ability to quickly create sites using templates and tools.
Amazon Launches Relational Database for the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new Web service that makes it easy to set up, operate and scale relational databases in the cloud. The database is based on the MySQL platform, the company said.
How to Ride the Cloud: A CIO's Guide to Changing Roles
The recession is dramatically changing the software industry's playing field, forcing companies to innovate and evolve to remain competitive. The CIO's role is changing too, as CIOs look to reduce software costs and employ a pay-per-use, flexible model. This shift is driving the emergence of virtual private cloud operators, which is changing infrastructure components, the product life cycle and the ecosystem as a whole. Here, Knowledge Center contributors Anand Deshpande and Ashok Korwar share tips on how CIOs can navigate through this changing landscape.
Predictive Analytics Fuels New Uses for Cloud Computing
Interest in cloud computing architecture still remains largely theoretical for many corporations. However, a growing number of enterprise companies are diving into the cloud to perform complex calculations on very large data sets. One such application that’s fueling greater awareness of cloud computing's ability to impact the corporate bottom line is in the field of predictive analytics, allowing companies to create models that can predict customer behavior and other critical business information. In this video, Baseline Contributing Editor Steve Kovsky talks with Dr. Michael Zeller, cofounder and CEO of Zementis, and a leader in the field of open source cloud computing and predictive analytics.
Google Talks Up Chrome Operating System as Windows 7 Launches
Web applications such as Gmail and Google Wave are paving the way for major adoption of the Google Chrome Web browser and fueling the forthcoming Chrome Operating System, says Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 22. In fact, Web apps made it imperative for Google to create Chrome. Pichai's points about Chrome OS and managing user data in the cloud are interesting in relation to Microsoft's launch of Windows 7 in New York.
How to Avoid Cloud Computing Failure
With the current shift to cloud computing, companies have a great opportunity to improve network flexibility, scalability and computing power for less money. If they correctly plan, employ and manage cloud computing applications and services, companies can also manage their networks at a much lower maintenance level. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Dave Kofflin outlines five guidelines companies need to understand before they can benefit from cloud computing.
Key to Enabling Internal Clouds
Virtualization has been widely embraced for its ability to rein in costs, lower TCO, and get higher utilization out of IT resources. To date, IT organizations have focused on how to scale-up virtualization on a single server. That is, the focus has been how to run more virtual machines on one machine. Increasingly, the attention today is shifting to how to scale-out efforts where virtual machines and virtual instances of applications are distributed across multiple servers. This, in essence, creates an internal cloud that allows companies to virtualize IT services throughout an enterprise.
Cloud Testing Comes to the Fore
CSC and SOASTA, a provider of cloud testing environments, form a partnership in which CSC will integrate SOASTA CloudTest with CSC's Trusted Cloud Services and testing and development methodology. Meanwhile, Zeus Technology updates its Zeus Traffic Manager Web performance tool.
NaviSite Announces NaviCloud Cloud Computing Platform
Hosting company NaviSite is looking to give businesses an alternatives to public cloud offerings such as Amazon’s EC2. Leverage new tech-nologies from Cisco, VMware, IBM and Intel, NaviSite is offering an enterprise-level cloud computing platform that is highly scalable and usage-based. It also runs over three of its data centers, giving NaviCloud users built-in disaster recovery.
G2iX Morph CloudServer Appliance Is Based on IBM BladeCenter
Manila-based G2iX is offering its Morph CloudServer, an appliance housed in an IBM BladeCenter solution designed to make it easier for businesses to get a private cloud up and running. G2iX is using the same industry-standard technologies as those used by Amazon and Eucalyptus. The Morph CloudServer supports Linux, Solaris and Windows, as well as Java, Ruby on Rails and PHP.
Study: Developers Pick Google, IBM as Top Cloud Platforms
Evans Data has released the results of a new study that indicates that software developers view Google as the company most capable of executing in a public cloud setting, and they view IBM as best for the private cloud.
IBM Introduces Three New Cloud Computing Packages
At its analyst conference, IBM announced three more additions to its Project Blue Cloud bag of goodies: a new software infrastructure specifically aimed at the building of private cloud systems, an online information archive and -- you've guessed it -- a slew of new consulting services to go with both.
Salesforce.com Announces Cisco Partnership, Service Cloud 2 Improvements
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff used the platform of a company event in New York to tout his company’s efficiency and growth, signified by a new partnership agreement with Cisco that will combine Salesforce.com’s Service Cloud 2 functionality with the Cisco Unified Communications platform. Service Cloud 2 integrates social-networking features such as Twitter and Facebook into its platform, along with an integrated knowledge base for quicker problem-solving by customer-service agents.
OpSource Opens Cloud Platform to Public
After launching its cloud computing platform at VMworld two months ago, OpSource is putting its OpSource Cloud into the public's hands. The platform is designed to offer the best of public clouds—including online sign-up and pay-per-hour use—with the security and enterprise-level technology of private clouds.
A Bank's Mistake and Gmail Lockout Conjure Cloud Cautions
A recent case seems to show that we can lose access to our e-mail accounts and other cloud-based apps for simply avoiding the kinds of e-mails that pretty much everyone would assume were spam.