Category: News

Grazed from CTO Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

It seems like with the introduction of any new set of technologies we see a sudden rise in the interest of high availability. The concept of high availability has been around since the dawn of the mainframe, but when there are new technologies and delivery models in play, such as virtualization and cloud computing, it almost seems like IT organizations get a lot more concerned about availability…
 

Grazed from Barrons.  Author: Tiernan Ray.

Barclays Capital’s Ben Reitzes today writes that server sales based on Intel’s (INTC) “x86″ chip architecture will be “more subdued” this latter half of the year as a consequence weakening demand in the financial services and public sectors, but that the fallout won’t be bad for Intel because it can still ride the wave of “cloud computing.”…

Graze from Sys Con Media.  Author: PR Announcement.

GlobalOne, a leader in Software as a Service (SaaS), social collaboration and cloud computing professional services for the enterprise, announced today it has secured an initial funding commitment in excess of $25 million from Columbia Capital. The investment will be used to fuel a rapid expansion of the company’s capabilities and market coverage. The company also announced the appointment of David Northington to the post of CEO. Northington, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of professional services leadership, most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Capgemini in North America…

Grazed from TMCNet.  Author:  Carrie Schmelkin.

For quite some time, cloud companies were miles ahead of the consumer market as technology as a service seemed “too good to be true” and customers were reluctant to adopt cloud technologies, according to Dave Rokita, vice president of technology operations at Hexagrid Computing.

Fast forward a few years later and now consumers have come around and experts are referring to 2011 as the year of the cloud…

 

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, and its partner Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced customers that have chosen the RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack. The RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack is an Open Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, developed jointly to provide a pre-configured cloud platform for PHP application deployment and management that customers can run themselves. Leading companies including mediaspike, Dmedia Commerce, and VYou.com have chosen the solution as a means to solve multiple problems related to rapid scaling, simplified deployment, and high availability of applications…

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Joab Jackson.

Further preparing its software for production use, Eucalyptus Systems has outfitted its private cloud software with the ability to keep running even if an individual node fails, a feature called high availability (HA), the company announced Wednesday.

"If something fails, the software will put other nodes into use immediately, and your operation will not be interrupted," said Marten Mickos, Eucalyptus Systems CEO. "Even if you have an entire rack that crashes, we can move [the workload] to another rack."…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: PR Announcement.

Momentum behind the cloud computing movement continues to accelerate as organizations move from limited deployments to more comprehensive cloud solutions, according to new research published today by CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the information technology (IT) industry.

More than half (56 percent) of the organizations surveyed for CompTIA’s Second Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study said their investment in cloud computing will increase by 10 percent or more over the next 12 months. The survey of 500 IT and business professionals in the United States involved in IT decision-making took place in June…

Grazed from IT World.  Author: Kevin Fogarty.

In case you were looking for a well-informed, solidly objective take on the hype surrounding cloud computing, I’m going to suggest the first half of an essay I’d normally spend a lot of energy to ignore.

First, though, since it involves Cloud Computing, you have to pick among the three following options regarding hype about cloud computing, which has generated enough coverage int he press to actually outweigh the number of stories on cloud computing alone…

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

The sad, bad secret about cloud-computing is that setting up a cloud and running an application on any of them is relatively easy, managing it though, that’s another thing entirely. That’s where companies like Convirture come in.

Convirture’s open-source project is ConVirt Open Source. With it you can manage both Xen and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)-based virtual machines (VM) and clouds. Specifically, with ConVirt, you can create and provision “gold” images, diagnose performance problems, and balance load across the datacenter, all from a Web-based interface and with consistent feature set across open-source virtualization platforms…