October 4, 2011
Cloud storage arrays to generate $1.45B in 2015
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Lucas Mearian.
Worldwide revenue from vendors selling external disk storage subsystems for cloud-based systems will grow from $267.4 million this year to $1.45 billion in 2015, according to Gartner.
In a recently released research report, Gartner said companies selling private and/or public cloud storage have seen annual revenue grow some 56% to date this year compared to 2010…
Windstream Hosted Solutions, one of the nation’s premier providers of enterprise-class managed hosting solutions, today announced the launch of its second-generation cloud platform. Designed to meet the strong, continually growing demand for cloud computing services, the platform incorporates significant technology enhancements to Windstream Hosted Solutions’ existing cloud services offering, including solutions from industry leaders such as VMware, NetApp, EMC and more to provide a comprehensive solution that can serve businesses’ production and disaster recovery requirements…
energyOrbit, the leading cloud computing ( www.energy-orbit.com ) company in the Demand Side Management sector, today announced the successful implementation and roll out of energyOrbit at Dairyland Power Cooperative, a Midwest generation and transmission cooperative (G&T) providing wholesale power to 25 member cooperatives and 16 municipal utilities in four states…
Virtustream, Inc., a leading Cloud Solution Provider, today introduced Virtustream Advisor 2.0, a resource analytics and analysis engine that collects current, actual performance data on a client’s compute landscape and recommends a company’s ideal cloud computing environment. In addition to performance enhancements that deliver enterprise-class capacity and availability to support Virtustream Advisor 2.0 deployments, Virtustream also announced that its partners — global systems integrators, enterprise ISVs and value-added resellers — can now use Virtustream Advisor 2.0 to evaluate their clients’ needs…
Red Hat Inc. (RHT), a provider of open source software and services, agreed to acquire closely held Gluster Inc. for about $136 million in cash to expand in Internet-based computing.
In an effort to remain relevant as desktop computing gives ground to cloud computing, Adobe on Monday announced two acquisitions, a Creative Cloud to augment its Creative Suite software, and a handful of touch-based tablet apps…
ServiceMesh, provider of the market-leading enterprise cloud platform for Global 2000 companies, today announced that ServiceMesh’s Agility Platform has been integrated with Juniper Networks(R) vGW Virtual Gateway to deliver policy-driven security for cloud-based applications and data.