By Serdar Yegulalp (from InfoWorld.) “InfoWorld described yesterday how Compute Engine is Google’s first unabashed IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) product, a cloud that allows users to spin up enormous numbers of virtual Linux machines that run on the same infrastructure powering Google. But how will customers decide whether to use Google Compute Engine, Rackspace Cloud, Windows Azure,...
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From NDTV Gadgets. “Google has announced Compute Engine, a cloud-computing service that allows businesses to run their applications on servers in the tech giant’s data center. “We’re introducing Google Compute Engine, an infrastructure-as-a-service product that lets you run Linux Virtual Machines on the same infrastructure that powers Google,” said Google in its official blog...
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By Chris Gardner (from PC World.) ““Partly cloudy,” was how Windows 8’s Weather application described conditions in Amsterdam at Microsoft’s TechEd Europe conference. It couldn’t have been a better description of the keynote speech delivered around cloud computing by Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s management and security division. Cloud computing is the...
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By Dave Courbanou (from ChannelNomics.) “Things are getting interesting in the virtualization world, especially as cloud technologies converge and offer services that blur the line between on-premise virtualization and cloud-based computing. Pano Logic is riding the crest of that wave, looking to crash down on the channel with a considerably different virtualization proposition: Google...
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From Market Watch. “CliQr Technologies, the company that enables existing business applications to fluidly move to and between clouds, today came out of stealth mode and unveiled its CloudCenter product. Founded by executives with decades of experience in pioneering cloud computing, virtualization, security and systems management, CliQr simplifies the process of on-boarding, testing and...
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From Sys-Con Media. “GraphOn Corporation, a leading worldwide developer of cloud application delivery and Web-enabling solutions, announced today that Yahoo! JAPAN is utilizing GraphOn’s GO-Global software to deliver online business applications to small- and medium-sized businesses throughout Japan via Yahoo! JAPAN’s newly announced Business Continuity Plan (BCP) cloud computing service. GO-Global provides instant and...
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From the San Francisco Chronicle. “The word “Cloud” no longer refers only to white puffy formations in the sky; technology has transformed the word “cloud” into today’s hottest buzzword. It starts with the word cloud as a metaphor for the Internet: derived from the cloud symbols that often represent the internet on diagrams. Cloud...
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By Nicole Blake Johnson (from Federal Times.) “The federal cloud computing market is projected to jump from millions to billions of dollars over the next five years, thanks in part to a new cloud security program launched this month. Market research firm Deltek projects that agency spending on cloud computing services will increase from...
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From Breaking Travel News. “Cloudreach, a fast-growth cloud computing consultancy, has been selected by Kempinski Hotels, the luxury hotel management group, to support and manage its migration to the cloud. Cloudreach will help Kempinski move from traditional, on-site IT to public cloud-based storage and computing with Amazon Web Services (AWS), eliminating any migration headaches...
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From Market Watch. “Today Atlantis Computing(TM), a leading provider of storage optimization software for virtual servers and desktops, will unveil Atlantis ILIO FlexCloud 1.0 onstage at GigaOM Structure, one of the most influential cloud computing conferences. The new software product makes it possible for enterprises and service providers to fundamentally change the performance and...
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