Microsoft to cut its low-end Windows Azure cloud pricing
Microsoft is continuing to make adjustments to its pricing for Windows Azure cloud-computing platform in an attempt to win over smaller developers.
Starting October 1, Microsoft is cutting the price of “extra-small compute” by 20 percent, according to an August 15 post on the Windows Azure Team Blog. Microsoft is doing away with the extra-small designation and using “small-compute hours” for all its cloud offerings (while providing those with extra-small hours with an appropriate small-compute-hour equivalent). The company also is allowing users more flexibility in how they allocate their compute hours…
Cloud Service Is a Portent for Enterprise Desktops
Grazed from Internet Evolution. Author: Sean Gallagher.
A day before the 30th anniversary of the unveiling of the personal computer, I was at a Microsoft media event in Washington. Called "The Future of Federal Work," the event was intended to show off Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-based collaboration and productivity platform in the context of how federal agencies will use it. But the event also offered a look at how Microsoft envisions the future of business computing in general, and what place the PC holds in that future...
TransLattice Partners with Systems Integrator Lowry Computer Products
TransLattice, the distributed application and cloud computing company, today announced that Lowry Computing Products has become its latest systems integrator. Lowry is now able to offer its global customers the advantages of Lattice Computing, the deployment of applications in a geographically distributed manner, providing resilience, easy scaling and improved performance for end users at a lower cost..
Cloud Computing Boosts Virtualization Trend
There was a time, just a few years ago, when the idea of putting databases, ERP, CRM and unified communications systems in virtual environments would’ve made IT administrators break out into a cold sweat. That’s because virtualization was an intriguing but unproven concept at the time, and certainly not a technology one would stake their reputation on — or their job, for that matter…
EMC eyes cloud, big data convergence
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Kevin Kwang.
This was the proposition put forward by David Webster, president of EMC Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
In an interview Tuesday with ZDNet Asia, Webster said cloud computing is creating increased demand for real-time business insights as data is being accessed and consumed through various endpoint devices anytime, anywhere…
Cloud Computing Goes Mainstream with University Certification Course
When does a technology actually become mainstream, an established part of our daily lives? Is it when it becomes part of the popular vocabulary, or when there’s an addition to the Oxford English Dictionary confirming its existence? Is it when companies make money selling that technology, or when people make money buying and selling shares of these companies? All of these go a long way in making cloud computing an integral part of our lives; however, I believe it’s now when there’s a university course actually teaching the technology that it’s actually gone mainstream…
‘Cloud’ computing hot and foggy
Grazed from Stuff.co.nz. Author: Hayden Walles.
The tech world is all abuzz about cloud computing but what is it? It’s the next step on the evolutionary path of the internet. It’s a big step forward, but in many ways it is a blast from the past as well.
Cloud computing has an appropriately hazy definition but roughly speaking it is about shifting resources that traditionally resided on personal computers to the internet…
Xsigo First to Market With Virtualized Server Fabric to Enable Cloud Data Centers
Xsigo Systems, Inc. today announced the Xsigo Server Fabric, the industry’s first fully virtualized infrastructure for cloud-optimized data centers. The Xsigo Server Fabric enables one-click network connections from virtual machines to any data center resource — including servers, networks, storage, and other virtual machines — to accelerate the management of virtualized data centers. Xsigo’s Server Fabric technology eliminates the last remaining hardware constraints on the agility and scalability of the cloud. As a result, new services can be brought to market 10 times faster, delivered at guaranteed levels of performance, and seamlessly scaled to a thousand physical hosts, all at a 50 percent lower cost of operation…
Three Cloud Computing Stocks That Could Be Takeover Candidates: Citrix, Riverbed, RackSpace
This afternoon, the street is buzzing over the Google Inc.(NASDAQ:GOOG) buyout of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.(NYSE:MMI). Most investors on Wall Street were betting that InterDigital Inc.(NASDAQ:IDCC) was the leading candidate for a Google takeover. It just proves that any company with good intellectual properties and important patents could be a takeover target. While investors are focusing on the mobile handset makers today it is the cloud computing stocks that should be watched as takeover candidates.
Amazon Releases Services To Lure Enterprises to the Cloud
Amazon.com formally added three new capabilities to its cloud computing portfolio with the introduction of Direct Connect and the updates to the Virtual Private Cloud and Identity and Access Management services. These offerings are targeted at organizations looking to construct hybrid or private clouds on the Amazon Web Services platform…