ATT.com eyes hybrid Oracle cloud computing
AT&T is now accustomed to the bursts of traffic it gets on its site when, say, a new iPhone is announced. Problem is, its Oracle infrastructure isn’t flexible enough to scale up and down to accompany the peaks and valleys. So the company is considering partially moving its Oracle environment to cloud computing…
Coraid raises $50 million for cheap scale-out storage push
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Scale-out SAN vendor Coraid raised $50 million in venture funding in a Series C round led by Crosslink Capital. Seagate, Kinetic Ventures, and Silverlake AG are also new backers in this round. The seven-year-old company has now garnered a total of $85 million. Early investors were Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital and Azure Capital Partners…
ViaWest Launches KINECTed™ Cloud
Today, ViaWest announced the launch of its KINECTed™ Cloud service, which, unlike other cloud computing offerings, provides users a choice between two different hypervisors: a VMware-based vCloud® Powered hypervisor and an open source Xen®-based hypervisor. With KINECTed™ Cloud, users can choose the cloud type that best meets their needs and avoid the pitfalls of a "one-size-fits-all" solution…
Federal Agencies using cloud to de-clutter IT systems
Richard Spires wants the Homeland Security Department to follow the minimalist approach when it comes to its back-office technology.
Spires, the DHS chief information officer, said the set up now — mostly a client-server approach — leads to too much clutter…
Ninefold strikes back in battle for start-ups
Australian cloud computing provider Ninefold has fired the latest shot in a growing battle for the start-up, announcing a scheme identical to multinational rival Rackspace offering start-ups $24,000 worth of cloud computing services and storage.
Under Ninefold’s Cloud Booster Program, start-ups approved by Australian incubators Pollenizer and Startmate would be offered free cloud computing and storage worth $2000 per month for a year…
Arrow ECS Adds Geminare Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Offerings to its Fusion Cloud Program
Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], today announced it has expanded its portfolio of cloud-based business continuity and disaster recovery offerings in North America with the addition of Geminare’s online Managed Data Protection Services suite.
IU and Penguin Computing partner to provide secure cloud computing service
Grazed from Indiana University NewsRoom. Author: PR Announcement.
Indiana University and Penguin Computing today (Nov. 2) announced a partnership to offer US researchers access to powerful shared computing resources in a secure environment. This type of service — also known as on-demand or cloud computing — lets individuals and organizations share the resources of large computing systems without individually purchasing and maintaining the costly equipment…
Feds Aim To Speed Cloud Adoption With New Roadmap
The federal government Tuesday released a draft version of a roadmap that aims to accelerate federal agencies’ adoption of cloud computing and support the tech industry’s development of cloud services by defining and communicating standards and requirements, as well as action plans to meet those standards…
Rackspace Joins EMC Velocity Service Provider Partner Program
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Rackspace(R) Hosting /quotes/zigman/259867/quotes/nls/rax RAX +0.63% , the service leader in cloud computing, today announced it will expand its relationship with EMC by joining the EMC Velocity(TM) Service Provider Program to develop new cloud-based service offerings. The two companies have collaborated since 2001 to bring a full range of innovative solutions leveraging EMC’s portfolio of information infrastructure products including virtual storage and a range of cloud-based data management services…
Minimizing public cloud disruptions
Cloud computing depends on connectivity and availability, but those can be far from perfect with some providers. Disruptions to a public cloud can impair the productivity of an entire organization, unless data center administrators know what to do when it happens—and it will happen. In this tip, you will learn how to choose a public cloud provider and how to best respond to outages…