Federal government listens to advice on cloud computing
Technology experts from across the country came to speak at a U.S. House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation last week. InformationWeek said experts told the Congressional committee that cloud computing is critical to keep the country economically competitive across the globe…
HP names Whitman CEO, Apotheker out
Hewlett-Packard Co named former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman its president and CEO, replacing the harshly criticized Leo Apotheker in a bid to restore investor confidence in the iconic Silicon Valley company.
The decision was made without a formal CEO search and piled renewed criticism on the board, which investors have blamed — at least in part — for the storied company’s recent missteps…
Microsoft Steps Up Cloud Expansion Plans
Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: Rich Miller.
Microsoft will invest an additional $150 million to expand its new data center in southern Virginia, continuing a series of expansion announcements that hint at a dramatic scaling up of Microsoft’s cloud computing capacity. Microsoft will build a second data center facility and add 21 megawatts of power capacity at its new location in Boydton, Virginia, even as it is still completing the $499 million first phase of the project…
KVM Consortium Apparently Thriving
More than 200 technology companies have joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), the consortium committed to fostering the adoption of Red Hat’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), in the three months since it was launched…
OpenStack Adds Private Cloud-Building Features
OpenStack, one of several open source options for building a private cloud, launched its fourth release in a little over a year on Thursday with several features that make it easier to manage an enterprise cloud.
OpenStack is the big open source project founded by NASA and Rackspace in July 2010 that competes with Eucalyptus Systems, an Amazon Web Services compatible offering, and Nimbula, a vendor neutral cloud operating system from the architects of AWS’ EC2. In addition, three startups–Piston Cloud Computing, Cloud.com, and Nebula–have adopted OpenStack as the basis of their commercial offerings, making it the favorite for building a private cloud. Former NASA CTO Chris Kemp left the space agency in order to found Nebula, a private cloud appliance company, which launched in July of this year; the appliance runs OpenStack software…
Cloud Company Xtium Raises Series A
Xtium, a provider of cloud computing services to businesses, raised an $11.5 million Series A round of investment from OpenView Venture Partners. As part of the funding, Scott Maxwell, senior managing director at OpenView, will join the company’s board. Xtium provides such services as disaster recovery and virtual hosting. The deal is the third in the Philadelphia area for Boston-based OpenView within the last month, following its investments in Monetate Inc. and NextDocs Corp…
Video: Steve Jobs Talks About Cloud Computing In 1997
It has more or less become passé to call Steve Jobs a visionary, but it never fails to surprise us just how forward thinking he’s always been.
Check out this video from 1997 where he gives an impromptu talk on cloud computing — "Never have I seen something more powerful than this computation combined with this network that we now have…in the last 7 years, do you know how many times I’ve lost any personal data? Zero. Do you know how many times I’ve backed up my computer? Zero."
The Importance of Knowing the Difference Between Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Microsoft raised some eyebrows when Corporate VP Brad Anderson boldly proclaimed that, “Virtualization is not cloud computing.” While this statement garnered a lot of buzz due to its timing – Anderson said this during the VMWorld annual event – that doesn’t make this statement any less true…
Cloud Computing: EMC Puts Together 1,000-Node Hadoop Care Package
EMC, well, at least its Greenplum unit has put together a thousand-node multi-tenant analytics platform to accelerate the development and testing of the disruptive but persnickety open source Apache Hadoop software.
That’s 1,000-odd hardware nodes or 10,000 nodes when you count virtual machines, along with 24PT of physical storage. In a word, that’s huge…
Autodesk aims to take 3D design, engineering to the cloud
Grazed from ZD Net. Author: Rachel King.
Design is a sector where cloud computing has the potential to revolutionize multiple industries, according to Autodesk, the 3D design software firm and maker of AutoCAD.
Cloud computing has become “completely pervasive, totally accepted and people don’t really think twice about these things now,” explained Andrew Anagnost, vice president of suite, web services and subscriptions for Autodesk…