Category: News

Grazed from The Hosting News.  Author: Nicole Henderson.

OpenStack OS developer Piston Cloud Computing announced on Wednesday that it has launched its Piston Enterprise operating system, pentOS, to the general public.

Piston’s operating system is the first OpenStack distribution specifically focused on security and the operation of enterprise private clouds.

In September, the WHIR talked to the founders of Piston about its cloud operating system for managing enterprise private cloud environments.

According to the press release, Piston Cloud’s Null Tier Architecture combines storage, compute and networking an every node to deliver massive scalability…

Grazed from Economic Times.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Sequoia Capital, one of the most active risk capital investors in the country, has acquired a minority stake in Knowlarity, a Gurgaon-based company that offers cloud telephony-based solutions. This is the first investment in the cloud computing space in India for the PE firm that will invest 35 crore in the Indian start-up.

Founded in 2009 by IIT- Kanpur graduates Ambarish Gupta and Pallav Pandey, Knowlarity provides voice and data communication services over the internet to companies and individuals in India and Indonesia.

With this round of investment, the start-up aims to expand services to other emerging markets, including Thailand and Brazil. "We built the company to deliver simple and useful telephony products to help other businesses, primarily in the SME segment," said Gupta, who received his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007…

Grazed from CenterBeam.  Author:  Editorial Staff.

For people interested in what the future of next-generation video games may hold, Square Enix worldwide technology director Julien Merceron said he believes cloud computing will be a big factor and play an "instrumental role" in newer consoles.

"I think it has tremendous benefits," he told GamesIndustry.biz. "I don’t see any good reason not to investigate for platform holders how they could actually think about cloud storage and cloud computing for their next platforms."

He said when it comes down to future platforms, the cloud will be extremely important, as the back end of each system will become more powerful…

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Jason Cowie.

In 2011, many data center managers took a hard look at the public cloud and said, “No, thank you.” The drawbacks of public cloud computing outweigh the cost benefits that are initially attractive to so many companies, particularly small to midsize businesses. While there are homegrown public cloud applications being built upon open source options like Xen Hypervisor and Kernel-based virtual machines (KVM), the public cloud remains basically a science experiment in the eyes of corporate data centers. So, the move to the cloud in the coming year will be a private or hybrid one. Will VMware own that space? Based on trends that began in the past year, the answer to this question is also, “no.”…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Code 42, the Minneapolis start-up that peddles CrashPlan, the automatic real-time PC and mobile backup and recovery service aimed at consumers, SMBs and the enterprise, has gotten a $52.5 million investment from round leader Accel Partners and Split Rock Partners.

It’s the company’s first investment. It’s reportedly been profitable since it launched the widgetry in 2007.

Accel dipped into its new $100 million Big Data Fund for the first time for its share.

Code 42 says it’s got some 4,000 enterprise customers including Adobe, Google, Groupon, HP, LinkedIn and NASA and 100PT of data stowed in the cloud: its cloud or private clouds, other computers or devices or some combination or all of these options. That represents a total of 100 billion file and it reportedly gets 250 million unique new files a day…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

www.IceWEB.com , a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that it has received an order from a Federal Government Agency for an IceWEB Model 5000 unified storage system. The system will be deployed in the agency’s Washington, D.C. data center to provide cloud computing services for mission-critical applications. Configured for a VMware operating environment, the system includes dual 10Gb Ethernet, six 1Gb Ethernet, 24TB of ENT SAS disk and 400GB of Solid State Disk (SSD).

"Building on a flawless implementation of IceWEB’s unified data storage systems deployed at this agency previously, this agency naturally expanded its deployment with IceWEB’s systems among all other vendors," said Tim McNamee, IceWEB VP Sales. "Our Model 5000 is now being deployed for the agency’s state-of-the-art cloud computing service center. With its 400GB of Solid State Drives, the IceWEB 5000’s hybrid storage pool, IceCAP(TM), will dramatically increase the speed of Input/Output Operations (IOPS), providing the agency with optimized performance levels for mission critical applications."…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Despite all the hoopla around cloud computing, Microsoft’s SQL Azure cloud platform will likely co-exist with on-premises SQL Server installations for some time. The hybrid deployment scenario means integrating data will present challenges to developers, especially since much of the technology is still in flux.

Rather than flip the switch on a wholesale conversion to the cloud, most companies will move applications over to SQL Azure at a more measured pace, initially spinning up applications best positioned to reap the benefits of the cloud’s scalability and lower costs. Companies may choose to work through some of their cloud security and performance concerns by using SQL Azure to experiment with new applications or by adding features and data sets that live in the cloud to existing SQL Server systems. Both approaches demand a robust level of integration between the platforms…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Paula Rooney.

Red Hat took a major step forward today in its goal to establish the open source kernel-based VM hypervisor as a leading virtualization platform for desktops and servers and a core component of its cloud computing strategy — the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0.

Red Hat’s much anticipated Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 platform represents a turning point in the maturity of KVM hypervisor and the company’s cloud computing goals, one IDC analyst claims.

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon announced today DynamoDB, a fully managed cloud-based NoSQL database service that builds on the company’s SimpleDB service by delivering faster, more consistent database performance to keep pace with the demands of ever-scaling cloud apps.

The secret sauce here is Amazon’s homegrown Dynamo non-relational database architecture, which the company built to suit the demands of its complex, service-oriented e-commerce architecture. Designed to be a highly reliable, ultra-scalable key/value database, Dynamo has  inspired such offerings as Red Hat’s Infinispan data grid technology [1] and Apache Cassandra [2]…