Archive for October, 2010
Holy Cow! Autonomy private cloud hits 17 petabytes
Autonomy is a software and infrastructure company that was a wide range of offerings including running a private cloud for storing information and other uses for its customers. The company has announced that its private cloud computing platform has hit an impressive milestone. The private cloud now manages more than 17 petabytes of information. That [...]
3 bogus myths about the private cloud
So that you don’t get fooled and waste countless dollars and hours pursuing a silly private cloud strategy egged on by self-interested vendors, here are the top three vendor-created myths that need to be dispelled. Private cloud myth 1: It’s illegal to use a public cloud in your industry, so you need a private cloud [...]
Interest Growing in Private Cloud Computing
While there’s still plenty of room for growth among enterprises for straight ahead, consolidation-oriented server virtualization projects, many organizations are looking to take their virtualization deployments to the next level. How? By shaping their data centers into elastic and self-service platforms akin to those built by large cloud computing outfits such as Amazon.com and Salesforce.com. [...]
Wyse Cloud Client Computing Driving Mainstream Deployment of Desktop Virtualization across Public and Private …
The following content has been excerpted from Yahoo News: Wyse Cloud Client Computing Driving Mainstream Deployment of Desktop Virtualization across Public and Private … COPENHAGEN, Denmark–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wyse Cloud Client Computing Driving Mainstream Deployment of Desktop Virtualization across Public and Private Enterprises Read more on Business Wire
Call for Cloud Computing Guest Bloggers
I’ll keep it simple. This is one of the premier Cloud Computing sites on the web and we are always looking for new talent to either write for us or guest blog for us. If you are a talented writer and have an interest in writing about Cloud Computing, contact us with our contact form. [...]
SAP Moves Emissions Reporting to the Cloud
SAP has begun the first of what is anticipated to become an ever-growing migration of reporting mechanisms to a cloud platform. With its newly launched version 5.0 of SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand, which reports carbon emissions, the software company is positioning the product at a lower cost and at various scales. SAP is using Amazon’s [...]
CA Unveils Turnkey Cloud Computing Solution, Launches MSP Program
CA has announced a turnkey cloud computing platform for companies looking to deploy a cloud environment quickly and easily. In addition, the company is launching a managed services program around the technology, enabling MSPs to add cloud infrastructure services to their stable of offerings for their enterprise customers. CA 3Tera AppLogic is an end-to-end solution [...]
Kristin's Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
Kristin’s Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
Cloud Security Still a Struggle for Many Companies
You want to embrace cloud computing because it makes your IT operations leaner and less expensive. But your understanding of cloud security hasn’t advanced much in the last year, so you have to be cautious. Security Firm: Apple Has More Security Holes Than Microsoft That’s one of the takeaways from the Eighth Annual Global Information [...]
Cloud Computing Buyer Beware
By David F Carr Jon West figured he couldn’t lose by going to Rackspace for hosting. “I’d heard all about the ‘fanatical support,’ and blah, blah, blah,” he says. Also, this cloud computing thing seemed to be pretty hot–instant scalability on demand and pay-as-you-go pricing. But for West, at least, the Rackspace Cloud turned out [...]
