September 20, 2011
Blue skies for Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering
Grazed from The Australian. Author: Stuart Kennedy.
Once a cloud market denier, Microsoft has clouded right over in recent years, beginning with a pitch that pushed the hybrid model, which played to its vast on-premise software base.
But last week, CEO Steve Ballmer went all in on cloud, telling a developers’ conference in Los Angeles that Microsoft was "re-imagining" every part of its software empire to run on and through the cloud and that the upcoming Windows 8 was being recast as a cloud OS…
RightScale, which gives companies a good look into the innards of their cloud computing workloads, just surpassed the 3-million-server mark.
Verizon is betting big on cloud computing. After this year’s $1.4 billion acquisition of data center operator Terremark, Verizon has once again loosened its purse strings to buy cloud computing startup CloudSwitch. The latter develops software that eases the transition of company applications from in-house servers to the cloud. So, what does Verizon expect from this acquisition?
Cycle Computing recently provisioned a 30,000-core cluster in the cloud, the first of its kind in the industry and the company’s second publicly announced massive cluster run this year. This milestone for scientific computing follows Cycle’s earlier scaling of a 10,000 core cluster in April. Since 2005, Cycle has helped its clients maximize the world’s compute resources through its reliable, secure and elastic HPC solutions, both internally and in the cloud…
Enterprise cloud supplier Savvis is building two new data centers in the United States and expanding three others, bringing its worldwide total for supplying infrastructure as a service to 50. When completed, Savvis will be the manager of a worldwide chain of 50 data centers, as its 34 are combined with 16 from CenturyLink. ..
Pre-med student Michael Dell started his computer-upgrading company at age 19 in his University of Texas dorm room in 1984. Twenty-seven years later, although he’s traded that little place in Austin for a tad-larger headquarters 20 miles up Highway 35 in Round Rock, his company has moved about a zillion miles from where it began…
The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), today announced that it is experiencing rapid growth in participation from companies focused on cloud computing and emerging markets around the globe…