Category: News

July 29, 2011 Off

HP Joins OpenStack Cloud Project

By David
Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

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…

July 29, 2011 Off

Google’s Schmidt to Testify for Senate on ‘Power of Google’

By David
Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Clint Boulton.

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.

July 29, 2011 Off

Open Cloud Initiative Launches to Drive Open Standards in Cloud Computing

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Grazed from PRWEB.  Author: Shanley Kane.

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…

July 29, 2011 Off

Know your Cloud Types

By David
Grazed from BusinessCloud9.  Author: Claire Galbois-Alcaix

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?

July 29, 2011 Off

HP pledges support for OpenStack cloud platform

By David
Grazed from ZD Net.  Author:  Rachel King.

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.

July 29, 2011 Off

The Cloud: Tailor-made for Unstructured Data?

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

The primary reason that cloud computing, and cloud storage in particular, is drawing such high interest these days is the enterprise’s need to handle increasing amounts of unstructured data.