The Man Behind Cloud Valley
In a suburb of Beijing, 800 workers arrive each day to a glass-and-masonry office block and a shared mission: to create China’s version of the Internet cloud.
Known as Cloud Valley, the 7,000-square-meter technology campus is the creation of Edward Tian, a 48-year old entrepreneur credited with bringing broadband Internet to China in the 1990s. On the campus, millions in investments from Tian’s enterprises now fund engineers to wire-up servers into refrigerated shipping containers and all-night coding sessions by young programmers. These are components of what Tian hopes will become a complete supply chain for cloud computing—all of it Made in China…
The Internet Cloud and You
When the Apple iPhone 4S and Amazon Kindle Fire tablet debuted this fall, the tech press blogged breathlessly about how these new devices harness ‘the cloud.’ Menacing as this hazy tech term may sound, the cloud is actually a regular part of daily digital life. In fact, gadget analysts expect this metaphorical cloud to envelop more of the world in coming years…
Public Cloud storage buyer’s guide: FAQs
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Sandra Van Dijk.
Customer interest in public Cloud storage is increasing, driven by the promise of affordable, elastic storage for archiving, backup/recovery, and disaster purposes. To understand the types of offerings available and to assist buyers with purchasing decisions Computerworld has prepared a public Cloud storage buyers guide. It begins with some of the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)…
Why is Cloud Hosting Causing a Hype Storm?
There’s a lot of hype happening right now about a technology that has been around since, what 2006? Cloud hosting and cloud computing are becoming big buzzwords again for a few reasons, the first being money and the second being that Amazon is offering packages for resellers and those resellers are signing up affiliates left and right. Has cloud computing really changed over the past five years? Not a whole lot, but it has been developed into a reliable technology that is becoming the standard for big businesses. Even after a massive data center outage back in April, Amazon still demonstrates that cloud hosting is solid, even though they had to learn a hard lesson about EBS re-mirroring. Even in the face of a near disastrous meltdown of the Amazon cloud, the technology has captured the minds of thousands of small business owners wanting to save on their IT service expenditures…
Colt to Launch Cloud Computing Service for European-Based Companies Using VMWare’s vCloud
Colt announced that it is soon going to launch its public cloud services based on VMware’s vCloud, aimed at the company’s customers in mainland Europe.
Developed for Europe at the desire of users who want a non-US-based provider of cloud services (CSPs), this service will also satisfy concerns of customers as to where their data is located…
Enterprise Trading in The Cloud. Finally.
Cloud computing, it seems, is everywhere. It is almost impossible to look at the news today without hearing about the latest cloud-based service model threatening to disrupt the status quo (see: Google’s Chrome OS and Docs, Microsoft Office 365, Amazon EC2 and Salesforce.com, to name just a few). While some industry observers believe the term "cloud computing" has been overhyped, it is clear that businesses today are looking for scalable and reliable hosted solutions that will allow them to deliver — and consume — services more efficiently than they have in the past…
Cloud Computing to Drive I.T. Spending
Data management processes look set for a shake-up as both public organizations and private firms move towards cloud computing.
According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), cloud computing is set to be the "key driver" of new IT spending over the next five years…
IDC: Cloud computing ‘key driver’ of storage growth
Grazed from Cloud Pro. Author: James Sterling.
Cloud computing will ensure growth in the storage sector for the next five years, according to new research released today.
Analyst firm IDC claimed increased investment in private cloud infrastructure and the growing volumes needed by public cloud providers would lead to combined storage spending of $22.6 billion by 2015….
EMC Promises Further Innovation for Cloud Environments
EMC executives say that the company—not only with its expanding storage portfolio but also its expertise in virtualization, security capabilities and strong management software—is at the forefront of business’ migration to the cloud-computing model.
When EMC on Oct. 18 announced that third-quarter revenues jumped 18 percent over the same period in 2010, and net income rose 28 percent, officials and analysts pointed to rising demand for the vendor’s cloud and storage technologies as the key drivers…
Cloud Computing: HP, Microsoft Combine for ‘Vblock Killer’ VM System
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Chris Preimesberger.
When three industry giants–Cisco Systems (networking), EMC (storage) and VMware (virtualization) formed the Virtual Computing Environment joint venture called Acadia in November 2009 to build Vblock virtualized data center systems, well-informed industry folks knew it was only a matter of time before another Tier 1 IT company or two stepped up to compete.
That came to pass this week, with longtime partners Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft announcing on Oct. 18 the HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft…