Cloud Computing Experts Set to Spark Price War
The evolution in cloud computing took another twist today as a UK firm dropped its prices to what is believed to be the lowest in the global industry.
Giacom ThinkCloud, which has clients across the world, laid down the gauntlet to its rivals by setting its Hosted Exchange service at £2.95 per mailbox a month…
Up, up and away: cloud salaries are sky-high
Cloud computing is big business – but just how big, you may not have realised, until you consider what Chuck Hollis has learnt all too well.
Job seekers with cloud-related skills "make between 20 per cent and 40 per cent more in the job market than their non cloud-trained peers," Hollis says. And he should know: as vice president of global marketing and chief technology officer with information management giant EMC, he has a top-down view of the costs EMC has had to shoulder to get a broad range of cloud-related skills into its workforce of more than 33,000 employees…
The silver lining in the Cloud
Cloud has the potential to transform the way IT services are delivered.
Cloud computing — is it beneficial? How to make it just more than efficient? Can it lead to business transformation? How easy and wise is it to walk the road where you have to follow the new fashion and be in vogue?…
Federal government listens to advice on cloud computing
Technology experts from across the country came to speak at a U.S. House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation last week. InformationWeek said experts told the Congressional committee that cloud computing is critical to keep the country economically competitive across the globe…
HP names Whitman CEO, Apotheker out
Hewlett-Packard Co named former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman its president and CEO, replacing the harshly criticized Leo Apotheker in a bid to restore investor confidence in the iconic Silicon Valley company.
The decision was made without a formal CEO search and piled renewed criticism on the board, which investors have blamed — at least in part — for the storied company’s recent missteps…
Microsoft Steps Up Cloud Expansion Plans
Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: Rich Miller.
Microsoft will invest an additional $150 million to expand its new data center in southern Virginia, continuing a series of expansion announcements that hint at a dramatic scaling up of Microsoft’s cloud computing capacity. Microsoft will build a second data center facility and add 21 megawatts of power capacity at its new location in Boydton, Virginia, even as it is still completing the $499 million first phase of the project…
KVM Consortium Apparently Thriving
More than 200 technology companies have joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), the consortium committed to fostering the adoption of Red Hat’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), in the three months since it was launched…
OpenStack Adds Private Cloud-Building Features
OpenStack, one of several open source options for building a private cloud, launched its fourth release in a little over a year on Thursday with several features that make it easier to manage an enterprise cloud.
OpenStack is the big open source project founded by NASA and Rackspace in July 2010 that competes with Eucalyptus Systems, an Amazon Web Services compatible offering, and Nimbula, a vendor neutral cloud operating system from the architects of AWS’ EC2. In addition, three startups–Piston Cloud Computing, Cloud.com, and Nebula–have adopted OpenStack as the basis of their commercial offerings, making it the favorite for building a private cloud. Former NASA CTO Chris Kemp left the space agency in order to found Nebula, a private cloud appliance company, which launched in July of this year; the appliance runs OpenStack software…
Cloud Company Xtium Raises Series A
Xtium, a provider of cloud computing services to businesses, raised an $11.5 million Series A round of investment from OpenView Venture Partners. As part of the funding, Scott Maxwell, senior managing director at OpenView, will join the company’s board. Xtium provides such services as disaster recovery and virtual hosting. The deal is the third in the Philadelphia area for Boston-based OpenView within the last month, following its investments in Monetate Inc. and NextDocs Corp…
Video: Steve Jobs Talks About Cloud Computing In 1997
It has more or less become passé to call Steve Jobs a visionary, but it never fails to surprise us just how forward thinking he’s always been.
Check out this video from 1997 where he gives an impromptu talk on cloud computing — "Never have I seen something more powerful than this computation combined with this network that we now have…in the last 7 years, do you know how many times I’ve lost any personal data? Zero. Do you know how many times I’ve backed up my computer? Zero."