Cloud Client Computing Leader Wyse Hosts California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom
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Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, is today hosting California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unveiling of his plan to shift California’s economy into high gear, focusing on expanding exports, green industry, and new manufacturing.
The Lieutenant Governor’s unveiling at Wyse is a reflection of the success Wyse has had in remaking itself into a cloud client computing company, a transition that has resulted in major sales gains, and significant hiring, for the pre-IPO company…
HP Joins OpenStack Cloud Project
Hewlett-Packard is jumping on the OpenStack cloud computing bandwagon, a day after rival Dell unveiled a cloud computing solution based on the open-source software stack.
In a blog post July 27, Emil Sayegh, vice president of cloud services for HP, said the company had joined the OpenStack project, which was kicked off a year ago by Rackspace and NASA and now has almost 100 organizations on its membership list…
New Initiative Aims to Stamp Out Cloud Lock-In
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Members of the cloud computing industry this week announced the Open Cloud Initiative, a non-profit organization to advocate open standards in cloud computing, at the OSCON 2011 open source convention in Portland, Ore….
Google’s Schmidt to Testify for Senate on ‘Power of Google’
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a set date with the Senate on Capitol Hill to discuss the search engine’s expansive Internet market power.
Schmidt, who served as CEO of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for a decade before co-founder Larry Page retook the reins in April, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Sept. 21 in Washington, D.C.
Open Cloud Initiative Launches to Drive Open Standards in Cloud Computing
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This week the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI), a non-profit organization established to advocate open standards in cloud computing, announced its official launch at the OSCON 2011 Open Source Convention. Its purpose is to provide a legal framework within which the greater cloud computing community of users and providers can reach consensus on a set of requirements for Open Cloud, as described in the Open Cloud Principles (OCP) document, and then apply those requirements to cloud computing products and services, again by way of community consensus…
Know your Cloud Types
You may know your nimbostratus (take an umbrella) from your cirrocumulus (you probably won’t need one) but what about the difference between Cloud backup and Cloud archiving? Or Cloud services and Cloud applications?
HP pledges support for OpenStack cloud platform
Hewlett-Packard is the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to join in on the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.
HP already has plenty of its own cloud solutions for IT departments, ranging in scale as well as private and public. Nevertheless, because OpenStack is a collaborative effort and free for all under the Apache 2.0 license, lots of other tech companies have found some benefit in supporting the project.
Putting Data In The Cloud? Retain Control
Brocade’s McHugh: VARs Are ‘First Mile To Cloud’
The evolution of cloud computing has raised a host of questions on the survivability of traditional VARs and systems integrators (SIs) in a cloud world, but a key executive with one major networking and data center vendor said that the cloud era represents key opportunities for solution providers to build business and grow.