GRANDVILLE - Napier, CEO of the $780 million hosting company Rackspace, spoke with Techonomy's Adam Ludwig about the present and future of cloud computing. What?s so compelling about cloud technology? When I was a kid, my first computer was an Apple I. Every application ran locally. Now, with broadband, you can deliver exponentially more computing
NEW YORK - Cloud computing, which businesses began adopting in order to reduce costs, is now starting to change the way companies work, according to a report to be released Monday by accounting firm KPMG International. Four out of five businesses are moving or plan to move some of their computing needs to remote networks
ANN ARBOR - Internet2 announced individual partnerships with HP, SHI International and Box to deliver new Internet2 NET+ Services, including cloud computing and infrastructure services, to Internet2 members' faculty, staff and students nationwide. ?These partnerships benefit our members by making secure and very affordable cloud computing services available anywhere, anytime,? said Dave Lambert, President and
GRANDVILLE - Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised a whopping $50 million in new funding with participation from CRM giant Salesforce.com. Past investors also participated in the round, as well as new 'strategic partners,' who will be revealed soon. Box's past investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale
GRANDVILLE - Yes, you can fit a cloud on a USB stick. Founded by several of the brains who conceived OpenStack ? the open source software platform for building Amazon-like ?infrastructure clouds? ? San Francisco startup Piston Cloud Computing has squeezed the platform onto a memory stick in an effort to streamline the creation of
GRANDVILLE - According to a recent report on Cloud trends, analyst house Gartner recommends that network managers should test or emulate the performance of Cloud -based applications in all geographies where they plan to deploy. There is a need for organisations to adopt a Cloud computing service that addresses specific issues around latency such as
GRANDVILLE - Over the last two years, in my consulting role I have encountered an increasing number of organisations whose staff work from home one or two days a week. This has many benefits for both employer and employee. People still attend the office for a number of reasons, the office culture, communication and collaboration
GRANDVILLE - In my "cloudy" travels from Cannonical, to Opscode, to DTO Solutions, I often ask a seemingly simple question to the companies I meet - "Why do you want to use the cloud?" - and I get an array of amazingly unsatisfying answers. To read the rest of the story, click on Gongwer.Com a>>
GRANDVILLE - This is next in the series of post where I am highlighting the importance of PaaS in the future of cloud services. VMware's CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) has completely altered the PaaS landscape with a first multi-cloud, multi-language open source platform. While the platform has clearly won the hearts of both pundits and
GRANDVILLE - Cloud computing, at its core, is an operational transformation - mostly focused on infrastructure. If you're an enterprise IT shop, you're right to think that such a change will (ultimately) simplify your world. But simplification, faster time-to-provision, and on-demand capacity aren't the end points of IT transformation. They are the new tools that