Abiquo Reflects on a Busy, Cloud-Filled Summer
Abiquo (News – Alert) has had a pretty active summer so far – from tripling its cloud management business in the first half of 2011 to announcing the general availability of Abiquo 1.8, the latest version of Abqiuo’s flagship Enterprise Cloud Management solution, to receiving the Cloud Computing World Series accolade for Best Cloud Management Solution. And fortunately for service providers, enterprises and developers out there looking for cloud management solutions, Abiquo is showing no signs of slowing down…
Amazon Turns Memcached-Compliant
There is now a new Amazon web service called ElastiCache meant to put users closer to frequently accessed data and maybe ward off some Amazon competition.
It’s supposed to make it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache for any web application running in Amazon’s cloud, reportedly granting Amazon customers one of their most fervent wishes, and replacing what AWS CTO Werner Vogels calls homegrown "operational muck."…
IBM Launches Smarter Energy Cloud
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the City of Dubuque, Iowa today announced the availability of the Smarter Energy Cloud in Dubuque, Iowa. The cloud, or internet-based computing, will enable citizens to access information about their energy usage and habits and share best practices through an electricity portal/website over a six-month period. The electricity portal is now available to volunteer households in Dubuque…
Cloud CIO: The Challenges of Competing with Cloud Computing Providers
In discussions about cloud computing and in comments readers leave on my blog posts, I commonly get statements along the lines of "Yeah, this cloud computing stuff sounds great, but at the end of the day, you have to have an IT guy solving problems like they’ve always done." In personal interactions, I often hear this sentiment portrayed as, "Public cloud computing is fine for the SMB and startup market, but enterprises aren’t ready to move to that model." The tone of much of this feedback is that anyone who advocates cloud computing is at best naive or at worst incapable of understanding the real details of IT…
IBM Unveils New Hybrid Cloud Solution for the Enterprise
Analysts from North Bridge Venture Partners, GigaOM Pro & 451 Group agree – the need for hybrid cloud solutions is growing. The joint "Future of Cloud Computing Survey, 2011" performed by those analysts, reports that 39 percent of cloud users say that the hybrid cloud is currently part of their strategy, with this number expected to grow to 61 percent in the near future. This is the result of both private and public cloud users evolving towards the use of a hybrid strategy…
Acer Opens First Cloud Computing Research, Operation Center
Acer Inc. (2353.TW) on Friday opened its first cloud-computing research and operation center in Taipei, as the beleaguered personal computer maker diversifies away from hardware production.
Acer said it will first target corporate customers and hopes to bundle cloud-computing services with the hardware it makes.
Acer is joining its larger rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. in providing more value-added services to improve profitability amid slowing growth in the PC market.
IBM Cloud Computing Future: RAM as a Service
Services, resources and prospects of Cloud Computing hands a share of future Tech solutions to it. With implementation and growth climbing for governments and businesses, Cloud Computing in its three major services will take off the old and bring on the secured new.
IBM fronts in Cloud Computing solutions globally and are committed to extending its Services, a service that should be considered is additional Random Access Memory (RAM) over the Cloud to computers that request for it….
Former Cisco CTO and Cloud Management Leader Joins Zenoss
Zenoss Inc. today announced the appointment of Alan Conley as chief technology officer. Conley joins Zenoss from Cisco where for many years he led Cisco’s IT operations architecture and was most recently CTO of the Network Management Technology Group where he was responsible for Cisco’s cloud and virtualization management offerings. Conley, a cloud management visionary, brings to Zenoss over 20 years of hands-on experience running large scale IT operations and building management products that span virtual, physical and cloud-based IT…
AppFog Named PHP Community Lead for Cloud Foundry
AppFog (formerly PHP Fog), the leading cloud-based PaaS that makes it easy to deploy and scale web based applications, today announced it has been named PHP Community Lead for VMware’s Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first Open PaaS. In this role, AppFog will contribute and maintain PHP support for CloudFoundry.org, and Cloud Foundry will be used within AppFog’s core technology. AppFog today is delivering a fully managed, multi-tenant Cloud Foundry-based platform service running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with plans to integrate the ecosystem of services available on AWS. Developers can now sign up for the private beta at http://www.appfog.com/…
Georgia CIO Calvin Rhodes Discusses Outsourcing and Cloud Computing
Calvin Rhodes, CIO of Georgia, is part of a growing number of state IT chiefs who have spent most of their careers in the private sector. Prior to becoming state CIO in January, Rhodes served as managing partner at Paladin Investments, a private firm he established in 2009. The bulk of his career – 27 years – was spent at Fulton Paper Company, where he served as executive vice president. Rhodes spoke to Government Technology about his move to the public sector and the challenges he’s facing...