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When selecting a cloud provider, you want to make sure that you’re getting the best bang for your buck – but that’s not easy. Unlike hardware offerings, which are relatively easy to compare, cloud providers are all over the map when it comes to pricing and features…
UK civil servants are to be among the first in the world to use cloud computing to work on classified documents due to a partnership between UK start-up Huddle and government security chiefs.
Nasuni is offering a 100 per cent uptime guarantee for data access through its cloud filer gateway appliance.
Of course, it can’t actually rule out service outages, so it is offering compensation for outages if the 100 per cent uptime target is breached.
With so much hype about cloud computing, it’s not hard to bring the sector down to earth.
The mention of cloud computing in earnings calls has become routine by companies such as virtualization software maker VMware (NYSE:VMW – News). But like many emerging tech trends, expectations can jump ahead of reality…
As the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and public cloud services industries mature they are being deployed to play more pivotal roles in the day-to-day operations of bigger and bigger organizations. The latest example is Coupa Software’s recent contract with the Independent Purchasing Cooperative (IPC) of SUBWAY, the largest franchise company in the world.
While Congress debates the debt ceiling and the federal budget, the White House is accelerating its plans to close data centers as a means to trim billions of dollars from its IT budget.
By 2012, the U.S. plans to close 373 data centers, representing about 800,000 square feet of space, or about the size of 14 football fields, an official pointed out on Wednesday.
Most data center managers are facing the increasing complexity of virtualized and cloud-based environments. Successfully managing cloud operations and virtualized environments takes intelligence–not so much the type of intelligence as defined by IQs, but more along the lines of intelligence defined as the ability to gather information of value.
It can be confirmed that Biji Varughese, the Head of IT at McDonald’s India West and South will speak at the Cloud Computing World Forum India, to take place on the 12th October at the JW Marriott in Mumbai, India.
Grazed from GIGAOM. Author: Katie Fehrenbacher
Another study out this week has found that if companies adopt cloud computing, they can reduce the energy consumption of their IT and save money on energy bills. The report, created by research firm Verdantix and sponsored by AT&T, estimates that cloud computing could enable companies to save $12.3 billion off their energy bills. That translates into carbon emission savings of 85.7 million metric tons per year by 2020…
enStratus today announced expanded capabilities for OpenStack components including OpenStack Object Storage and OpenStack Compute. This announcement highlights the significant momentum that OpenStack has built since its launch exactly one year ago.
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds…