Industry titans like Google and Microsoft have put billions of dollars into cloud computing initiatives over the past five years in an effort to pre-empt inevitable consumer demand in an industry poised for phenomenal growth. Some of that growth has already taken place, so much so that the cloud industry has already diversified its service suite and offers 31 flavors of cloud for the consumers – among them, they can be split into two groups: public and private.
A Line in the Sand
A public cloud has significantly less regulatory hurdles and as such host services that aren’t necessarily tightly integrated into the manifold arms of a large business. You probably use about five cloud services right now — Dropbox, Evernote and Gmail are three notable and widely used cloud-based services. Public clouds are great for bringing services to market quickly, but aren’t secure enough to host highly critical applications. That’s where private clouds come in…
Most of the noise coming out of Google I/O this week will be around the company’s long-percolating infrastructure as a service plan. But many developers who have banked on Google App Engine, the company’s platform as a service, will be looking for other things.
Red Hat is planning to commercialize its 13-month-old OpenShift PaaS later this year when it splits the widgetry into two initial tiers: FreeShift and MegaShift. Until then it’ll be available as a developer preview.
The lightweight mobile or web application is the must-have computing product of our time: both consumers and businesses demand access to key resources while on the move. But the intense pressure on mobile developers to quickly design and deploy apps requires solid tools to get the job done, and that’s what OneOps, a GigaOM Structure Launchpad finalist, hopes to bring to developers.
All things IT are moving to the cloud, but not always to the “public cloud” according to Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, which today is announcing a new Private Cloud Practice created to support premises-based, fully-customized cloud solutions. While competitive, semi-private cloud solutions offer the appearance of security and control, Logicalis Private Cloud solutions are tailored specifically for each customer’s environment and computing needs and the customer keeps control of all of the IT assets at the data center of their choosing. The company has a well-established history providing managed services, data center services and a variety of cloud solutions. It was recently named a “Top 100 Cloud Service Provider” by industry publication Talkin’ Cloud and a “Top 500 Solution Provider” by UBM Channel. The new practice will help organizations that are seeking the flexibility and expansion capabilities of cloud computing, with the security and access provided by a premises-based data center.
Infrastructure + Platform + Software as a Service. IPSaaS is finally here. This is the first of its kind solution that ultimately brings the cloud to the masses. Combining award winning Infrastructure and “Fanatical Support” from Rackspace with the power of Openstack and virtually unlimited amounts of Software choices, EasyCloud makes using the cloud, easy. Where other Service providers focus on a single aspects of cloud computing, EasyCloud is the only “one stop shop” on the block that gets it right. This new technology allows EasyCloud to compete across multiple horizontal markets while reducing complexity for end users and avoiding proprietary lock in.
Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today launched the Eucalyptus Authorized Education Partner (EAEP) and Authorized Consulting Partner (EACP) Programs. The EAEP Program enables Eucalyptus partners to deliver Eucalyptus authorized training courses using Eucalyptus Certified Instructors (ECI), while the EACP Program recognizes Eucalyptus partners who have developed a high level of competency in designing and implementing Eucalyptus cloud solutions.
Compuware Corporation on Tuesday launched SpeedoftheWeb.org, a new free online cloud service that helps web application and site owners increase the speed of their most important web properties. This cloud service enables organizations to compare the speed of their website’s performance against leading competitor sites.
Vaultive, a provider of cloud data encryption solutions that enable organizations to leverage the economy and efficiency of cloud computing while maintaining the data security, control and compliance advantages of on-premise computing, today announced the launch of its channel strategy with the introduction of the new Vaultive Advantage Partner Program. The Vaultive Advantage Partner Program provides significant business development investments encouraging proven channel firms to engage clients within Vaultive’s channel-centric model.