September 20, 2011
RightScale: More than 3 million servers launched
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
RightScale, which gives companies a good look into the innards of their cloud computing workloads, just surpassed the 3-million-server mark.
RightScale’s cloud management platform launched in 2007. It took more than two years (27 months) to get to the million-server milestone, one more year to reach two million, and then half that time to breach three million milestone, said Michael Crandell, CEO of the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company…
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…
ClearCube Technology, the leader in virtual desktop products for cloud computing, including rack-mounted workstations, blade PCs and zero clients, today announced that it has acquired privately-held Network Elites, a cloud computing and managed services provider based in 