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BioSciences Firm Goes Live With CloudCraze

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:54:19 EST

EDL Consulting, a leading technology services firm today announced that LI-COR Bioscience’s biotech reagents and consumables and environmental products are now available online in the Cloud via EDL’s CloudCraze eCommerce application.

Biosciences Firm Goes Live With CloudCraze Framework

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:03:00 EST

EDL Consulting announced that LI-COR Bioscience's biotech reagents and consumables and environmental products are now available online in the Cloud via EDL's CloudCraze eCommerce application. Using the Force.com cloud computing development platform, CloudCraze offers an efficient way to manage the LI-COR eCommerce site for academic, commercial, and pharmaceutical research teams looking for novel ways to advance the discovery process. CloudCraze is the first eCommerce application to be listed on the Salesforce.com AppExchange.

Virtual Computing, Archiving and IDM at Educause 2009

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:15:00 EST

Versatile's broad expertise in architecting and deploying large scale virtual systems in both the data center and at the desktop are on display at this event. Event attendees will be able to have hands on experience with these technologies including key Versatile technology and engage with Versatile's management. In addition, Versatile will participate in the presentation of Fedora Commons, a solution for storing, managing, and accessing digital content in the form of digital objects. Versatile will also be supporting Duquesne University's presentation of their MultiPass 2.0 application. Developed with the support of Versatile's solution architects, MultiPass 2.0 is built on Sun's IDM solution and provides a "seamless, safe, and secure" end user experience for the creation and/or de-provisioning of accounts across multiple systems and applications. More information is available at: http://www.educause.edu/E09+Hybrid/EDUCAUSE2009FacetoFaceConferen/Identi...

Security and Compliance in the Cloud

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EST

Terry Woloszyn, Founder of PerspecSys, emphasized security and compliance in his session at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Nov. 2 – 4. In his session – “Addressing Data Privacy, Residency, and Security when Adopting Cloud Applications” - focused on new technologies and techniques that allow sensitive data to appear to be in the cloud, but really remain behind the enterprise firewall. Woloszyn emphasized that “there should be a segregation of the data and the functionality. All the business sensitive date should be behind the firewall.”

Cisco Reports First Quarter Earnings

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST

Commenting on the quarter, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers noted, "Building off what we saw as a clear tipping point in Q4, our Q1 results continued to reflect strong sequential growth trends that meet or exceed expectations during normal economic times. We view the improving economic outlook, combined with solid execution on our growth strategy, as creating unparalleled opportunity to drive more value into the core of the network. Simply said, we believe that key market transitions across collaboration, virtualization and video will drive productivity and growth in network loads for the next decade, and are evolving even faster than expected."

Bridging the Gap Between Public and Private Clouds

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:15:00 EST

"On the supply side, interviews with cloud-enabled providers reveal that there are a lot of activities already underway to support enterprises of all kinds," noted Agatha Poon, speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

Trusting the Cloud

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

Trust is an important word in the world of security, and in cloud computing it’s an even bigger deal. Cloud computing offers up the promise that an organizations will be able to run any application from anywhere at any time. But in a multi-tenant environment, a cloud application running in a virtual machine might be located on any number of hosts in a virtualized datacenter, and running next to others’ virtual machines on those hosts.

Nortel Provides Cloud-Based Real-Time Applications

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

Nortel is giving enterprises the opportunity to trial and evaluate its communications applications portfolio over the Internet using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(2) (Amazon EC2). The platform also provides a sandbox-environment for the Nortel developer community to build innovative and complementary applications through new technologies such as Web services. "Nortel's decision to provide access to its communication enabled business solutions over Amazon EC2 is yet another indicator that cloud computing is the future," said Sheila McGee-Smith, president and principal analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics. "Today Nortel is giving their customers, application developers and business partners both a platform to create and test combining enterprise assets with Nortel and Amazon Web Services-enabled solutions and a place where these same groups can share their applications and successes."

Industry Leaders Hold Cloud Services Summit

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:26:00 EST

Through a series of presentations and interactive discussions, these industry leaders - who represent both buyers and sellers of cloud services - will look beyond the hype and discussing the real-life benefits of the different cloud service models (Infrastructure as a Service; Platform as a Service; and Software as a Service), security, open standards and what role Communications Service Providers (CSPs) can play in ensuring the ecosystem meets customers' needs and expectations.

SOASTA Adds Support for Open Source Testing from the Cloud at Cloud Expo

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST

SOASTA, a provider cloud testing, today announced that performance engineers can now build web application tests in Apache JMeter, the most popular open source load testing tool, and run them in SOASTA's Global Test Cloud. Deploying JMeter tests to the Cloud has been a complex, time-consuming and manual process. SOASTA now makes it dramatically easier for the JMeter community to create, deploy, execute and analyze load and performance tests in the Cloud.

Shelton Shugar Says Yahoo! Already a Major Cloud Computing User

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:15:00 EST

"This is a long-term activity. started a few years ago," Shugar said. "And prior to cloud we might have had to literally forklift machines and move them when we want to move capacity. With cloud serving we are building a flat network and can basically point and click and move capacity from one place to another."

Yahoo!'s Shugar Announces Traffic Server, Outlines Open-Source, Cloud Strategy

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:15:00 EST

Yahoo! is, of course, has one of the larger IT installations you will find: 600 million unique website visitors each month worldwide, 300 million email addresses, and "hundreds of petabytes of data," Shugar said. So now, "we are building a private cloud to be used within Yahoo!, have developed services and deployed them in data centers all over the world. There are hundreds of applications and products that we've migrated to exist on top of the cloud."

Yahoo! Announces Open Source Distribution of Traffic Server at Cloud Expo

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, took its second major step in five months towards open-source cloud computing today, debuting an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services. Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing, and routing for an entire cloud computing stack. It follows the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop as another example of Yahoo!’s unprecedented commitment to open source cloud computing initiatives. Yahoo! has donated the Traffic Server code to The Apache Software Foundation through the Apache Incubator, and intends to build a robust community of developers around the open source Traffic Server. Shelton Shugar, senior vice president of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, will be discussing the new technology tomorrow at the Cloud Computing Expo.

Industry Experts Discuss the State of Cloud Computing

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:15:00 EST

"With cloud computing, price to deploy applications goes through the floor while flexibility to scale those applications goes through the ceiling!" says WaveMaker CEO Chris Keene, in this lively round-up of The State of Cloud Computing compiled and published by Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo is taking place this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center (November 2-4, 2009).

Cisco, EMC, VMware in Cloud Venture

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:15:00 EST

Sometime before 4:30 Wednesday afternoon New York time Cisco and EMC, two companies that are already tight and were expected to get tighter, are supposed to announce a joint venture to sell a cloud or cloud products called vBlock. VMware's involved because virtualization is relatively standard cloud fare, it's majority owned by EMC and it's already Cisco's BFF but its level of participation in the venture is unclear despite all the whispering going on. It could be a full member. Based on broad hints from the companies, the Wall Street Journal got wind of the joint venture in September and said it was code named Alpine.

Manage Your Windows Azure Storage Using Cloud Storage Studio

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:45:00 EST

Cloud Storage Studio is a standalone WPF application to manage your Windows Azure storage. You will need to have .Net 3.5 installed on your computer to run this application. Here is the feature list of Cloud Storage Studio (at a high level. Storage account management, Table/Entity management.

RightScale Sets New Bar for Portability in the Cloud at Cloud Expo

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST

RightScale, Inc., today launched the next generation of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform that delivers increased application portability across cloud infrastructures. With this release, RightScale has enhanced its ServerTemplate technology to provide automatic configuration of servers for different clouds, system architectures and operating systems. The new portable ServerTemplates enable users to take advantage of the specific features and functionality offered by each cloud provider, including Amazon and Rackspace, while retaining complete portability.

Servoy Simplifies SaaS with Hybrid Servoy 5.0

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

Servoy today announced the fifth generation of its award-winning hybrid SaaS platform, Servoy 5.0 -- the platform that simplifies SaaS. Servoy 5.0 further extends the functionality of Servoy's development and deployment platform, allowing "SaaS and Back" hybrid applications -- which can be deployed as SaaS and on-premises through both a browser and a native client -- all from a single code base.

Unisys Brings Advantages of Cloud Computing to Clients’ Data Centers

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:45:00 EST

Unisys Corporation today announced the latest in a series of aggressive moves to expand the full spectrum of secure cloud computing options available to enterprise CIOs. The company announced Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution, an innovative solution for organizations to realize the operational and economic benefits of cloud computing in their internal data centers. Unisys also announced significant enhancements – including a disaster recovery service – to Unisys Secure Cloud Solution, the company’s managed public cloud offering. Unisys is showcasing new and forthcoming solutions at the SYS-CON Cloud Computing Conference & Expo here.

Windows Azure Platform Launch Update

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:43:00 EST

PDC 2009 is an exciting event the Windows Azure community. Concurrent with the conference Microsoft will begin the Windows Azure platform transition from a CTP to business. For your planning purposes, this post maps out the key stages of that transition that you should be aware of. At PDC 2009, on November 17th, 2009, a number of [...] Related posts:

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Telcordia Helps Enterprises Reduce of Configuration Errors in IP Networks

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST

Telcordia, a provider of communications network software and services for IP, wireline, wireless and cable, is enabling enterprises and government agencies to take advantage of the opportunities now available through the wide-spread adoption of cloud computing technologies. Telcordia is addressing the challenge with Telcordia® IP Assure, a scalable, non-intrusive software that detects and helps to rectify configuration errors in IP network devices.

CloudBerry Backup - Purging Options Explained

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:55:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Backup 1.3 and later. CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows backup and restore that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage. In this post we will try to explain you how to configure purging options and why you need them. CloudBerry Backup creates a version of the file on backup storage each time the file is modified. Using purging options you basically configure how many versions to keep. This helps you keep the number of versions to the necessary minimum and cut down on storage requirements.

Cloud Computing Expo Billows in Santa Clara

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:30:00 EST

I'll be reporting on www.cloudcomputingexpo.com next week, even though I'm 7,500 miles away from its Santa Clara location. It starts Monday morning, and features keynotes from Yahoo, Oracle, and Unisys. I'll be watching it live on www.sys-con.tv, between the hours of 1am and 9am local time here in Asia. No problem, I got up in the middle of the night to watch the US get beat in World Cup soccer back in 2002, I can certainly be up for this. A recent Cloud Computing conference run by the same folks featured a discussion of the Cloud Computing Manifesto and the defense of it by IBM's Kristof Kloeckner. We'll see what sort of sparks will fly this time.

Introducing CloudBerry Explorer for Azure Blob Storage

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:30:00 EST

Recently we announced the beta release of CloudBerry Explorer for Nirvanix. In our attempt to increase the breadth of cloud storage support and we are proud to announce CloudBerry Explorer for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage as our third product in the series

What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud operating system where developers can host their applications to benefit from cloud platform. When you host application in the cloud you get virtually unlimited scalability and pay as you use model that hard to underestimate. Every cloud platform would be incomplete without storage support and Microsoft’s platform is not an exception. Azure comes with 3 types of storage: Table Storage, Queue Storage and Blob Storage.

What is Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Among other storage types Azure Blob Storage is the one that can be compared with Amazon S3 and as its name suggests designed to store binary data. Obviously you can store the files of different types in the storage like this.

How CloudBerry Explorer supports Azure Blob Storage

First, you register account same way. We will have a separate post on how to obtain the account.

Once you register your account you can do usual file operations such create containers, folders, copy/move files between Azure Blob storage and your local computers. You can also copy files between two Azure Blob storage accounts.

Note: when you copy files between different accounts they go through your local computer.

Feature list

* Register and connect to any number of Microsoft Azure Blob Storage accounts

* Work with any number of Microsoft Azure Blob Storage accounts simultaneously

* Create, browse, and delete Microsoft Azure Blob Storage files

* Create, browse, and delete folders

* Copy and move files between Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and your local computer

* Manage containers and blobs

* Create Blob containers

* List blob containers

* Delete Container

* Upload/ Download blobs

* Copy/ Move blobs

* Delete blobs

* Rename blobs

* Veiw blobs

* Blob metadata

* Signed URL for blobs

* Ability to split blobs into multiple blocks View files properties

* Copy/Move in background

* Synchronize folders

* Copy files from Windows Explorer

* Remember user settings

* Built-in feedback form

* Automated check for updates

What’s next

As always we are going to gather user feedback and incorporate it into the product before final release. This is just a short list of things that we have on our list.

1. Support for $root container

2. Support for Conditional headers

3. Support for ACL editing

4. Support for Server timeouts

5. Support for Metadata for containers and blobs

We are also going to implement a PowerShell interface for Azure Blob storage to help users automate their routine tasks.

There are even more exciting features coming. Stay tuned!

CloudBerry Explorer for Azure is a freeware program, it is currently in beta and you can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=explorer-azure

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LA to Go with Google Apps on Condition . . .

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:00 EDT

The city of Los Angeles has okayed a $7.2 million deal with CSC to rip out a lot of its existing Novell GroupWise e-mail systems and whatnot and replace it with Google Apps provided CSC agrees to pay a pre-set penalty if there’s a security breach. They still need to dicker about that according to the AP.

Canonical Offers Free Cloudware

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:00 EDT

Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, code named Karmic Koala, became generally available for free download Thursday. That’s the stuff that introduces Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), a k a Eucalyptus Software’s open source software, as a fully supported technology. The widgetry is based on the same APIs as Amazon EC2 and, as previously reported, lets businesses build private clouds.

Key Considerations for Cloud Networking

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:45:00 EDT

Clouds are not different from the enterprise in this respect; they have unique networking infrastructures that support complex and flexible multi-tenant environments. Remember that the cloud providers have to control their networking so that they can route traffic within their infrastructure. More important, their design is completely different from your enterprise networking architecture, design, and addressing. This is not a problem if you’re doing something stand-alone in the cloud because you don’t care what the network structure is as long as you can access it over the internet. However, if you want to extend your existing networks and use your existing applications, there are serious discontinuities that have to be addressed.

Hubspan President and CEO Selected to Speak at Cloud Computing Expo

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Hubspan, a provider of cloud computing-based business integration solutions, today announced that Trisha Gross, president and CEO, was selected by the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo West organizers to present during the industry event held November 2-4. Gross' presentation will focus on how companies can leverage cloud-based integration to cost-effectively build business integration communities and thrive during the current challenging economic climate.

Migrating an Enterprise Application to the Cloud: A Case Study

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:45:00 EDT

Migrating enterprise applications to the Cloud raises multiple questions: user experience, data security and compliance, cost of migration, and a framework to assess return on investment. In his session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Anil Parambath, VP, Operations at CSS Corp., will highlight a step-wise evaluation framework for migrating an enterprise payroll application to Amazon's EC2 / S3 / EBS infrastructure.

Craig Balding: The Belgian Beer Lovers Guide to Cloud Security

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:18:00 EDT

This slide presentation by Craig Balding is informative not only about Cloud security but about Belgian beer also. And I have to tip my hat to anyone who can do a full beer-themed presentation about Cloud security and not make a corny joke about "cloudy"

Cumulux and Microsoft to Speak on Building Rich User Experience on the Cloud

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EDT

Cumulux and Microsoft to deliver a talk on building Rich User Experiences on the Cloud at the Cloud Computing Conference. This session will cover how to build rich and complete User Experiences on the cloud. According to Ranjith Ramakrishnan and Bhushan Nene, building on the new features of Silverlight 3 and Windows Azure, delegates will see these concepts in action in a demo of a Customer Loyalty Management application. In this session, the Co-Founder and CTO of Cumulux and the Principal Architect in Platform Evangelism division in Microsoft, will address multitenant requirements by extending Business Logic, Data Model, and Use Interface.

Information Management Platforms: The Next Generation – Cloud Plays a Part

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:45:00 EDT

Describing today’s enterprise IT environment as “complex” would be a gross understatement all things considered. The intricate model needed to support day-to-day business operations boggles the mind, with much of the complexity attributed to evolving applications, and the way people use data.

Which Cloud Is Right for You?

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:45:00 EDT

When enterprises and data centers evaluate cloud technologies and various solutions move their applications to the cloud computing paradigm, there are many important decisions to consider, such as Will the applications be portable? Are there significant code changes and workflow changes related to moving to the cloud?

Objectivity Inc.'s VP, Brian Clark, Named Panelist at Cloud Computing Expo

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Objectivity, Inc. announced today that Brian Clark, vice president of product management, has been named a panelist at SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, to be held in Santa Clara, California from November 2-4, 2009. The panel, "Where's the Cloud Headed Next?" will take place on November 2 from 5:05-5:40 p.m. at the Santa Clara Convention Center and will be moderated by Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.

Greg O'Connor to Present AppZero Data Center at Cloud Computing Conference

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:30:00 EDT

AppZero's CEO Greg O'Connor will be a featured speaker at SYS-CON's 4th annual Cloud Computing Conference, which is co-located at the Santa Clara Convention Center with the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo November 2-4. O'Connor's session is entitled, "Case Study: Fortune100 data center provisions to and from * Cloud with Virtual Application Appliances."

Virtual Infrastructure: What Is Required for the Cloud

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Too often organizations have deployed virtual infrastructure tactically to reduce server sprawl or speed application deployments. Without a higher level view of organizational priorities, bad habits persist; unused snapshots and zombie VMs become more the rule than the exception causing budgets to continue their upward spiral.

Introduction to Private Cloud Computing – An Access Story

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:30:00 EDT

Without application development, organizations can easily plug their web, Windows, and hosted applications into the private cloud. Users connecting to the private cloud will be presented with a virtual web desktop that delivers all of their applications, services, documents, and data from ANYwhere, using ANY device. The session will include a live product demonstration.

Oracle+MySQL Opponents Take to the Barricades

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:45:00 EDT

Monty Widenius, the creator of the MySQL open source database – which is apparently all that stands between Oracle and its acquisition of Sun – thinks that Oracle shouldn’t have his baby and that the European Commission – whose investigation into MySQL has put the Oracle-Sun merger in limbo – should force Oracle to spit it out to another company.

Cloud Analytics Checklist

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:30:00 EDT

What are enterprise users looking for from a cloud analytics solution? Realtime + Historical Data. In addition to analyzing (historical) data held in databases (Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, MySQL) or datastores (Hadoop, Amazon Elastic MapReduce), a next-gen analytics solution needs to be able to analyze, filter and transform live data streams in realtime, with low latency, and to be able to "push" just the right data, at the right time, to users throughout the enterprise. With SQL/OLAP or Hadoop/MapReduce, users "pull" historical data via queries or programs to find what they need, but for many analytics scenarios today what's needed instead, to handle information overload is a continuous "realtime push" model where "the data finds the user".

Cloud Analytics

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:30:00 EDT

Business analytics is a major established sector of the IT industry, but it's one that's ripe for disruption. Cloud analytics is hot. Gartner's top two strategic technologies for the enterprise in 2010 are cloud computing and advanced analytics. Venture capitalist Ann Winblad, in a recent video, points out that the coming era of realtime cloud analytics will have a revolutionary impact on the enterprise, creating a radically new "innovation palette" for businesses of all kinds.

CSC Launches Cloud Assessment Service

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Expanding on its current Cloud service offerings, CSC today announced it will launch a Cloud Adoption Assessment Service to help companies across the world identify the right business process and IT services when moving to the Cloud. CSC's Cloud Adoption Assessment gives businesses a head start in understanding the complexity of the Cloud Computing ecosystem. The new service performs a process-centric analysis of a company's existing technology set-up using a Suitability Scorecard.

Consuming Services with WCF

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:30:00 EDT

Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF communication objects you need to pay attention to the disposal of the resources that these objects hold. However, these disposal mechanisms are not that straightforward and are very much related to how resources need to be cleaned up. The how and why of cleaning up service resources is the topic of this article. Although the samples herein are focused on consuming services using synchronous communication, they are equally relevant for asynchronous communications...

CSS Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:15:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that CSS Corp, a leading provider of global technology operations management services, was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California.

A Case Study on SOA and Process

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:15:00 EDT

In this article I will present a step-by-step service-oriented solution development methodology and then describe how it is being used for the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) at a federal agency to integrate its financial systems with E-Gov Travel Services. I will discuss major service components constructed, service-oriented processes followed, business benefits gained, best practices used, and lessons learned. After reading the article, readers should have a good understanding of how SOA is used in real world situations to integrate large scale, highly valued, and mission critical information systems within and across enterprise boundaries...

Of Birthrights and DNA in the BI Cloud World

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:15:00 EDT

I have been so busy getting ramped up on GoodData that I haven’t had a minute to post here in over a week. On Friday, I am headed out to

Amazon RDS vs. SQL Azure

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:45:00 EDT

Back in July I wrote my post about databases in the cloud. The big surprise that I discovered at the time was that the only “Native” RDBMS offering in the cloud came from Microsoft. Microsoft SQL Azure (launching formally at the PDC in a few weeks) is a mostly-compatible SQL Server as a Service release complete with support for Transact SQL/TDS. SQL Azure is a multitenanted DBMS with several customers running databases up to 10GB in size on a single server. Their target is the 95% of business applications running in the enterprise that have databases with less than 5GB of data (based on their research). Well, Microsoft is alone no more.

Joyent Launches Commercial Cloud Computing Platform in China

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:00:00 EDT

Joyent, Inc., a provider of Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing, today announced the expansion of its Cloud Computing business to China. Joyent becomes China's first Cloud Computing vendor at a time where computing infrastructure is in very high demand. The company's data center is located in the Qinhuangdao Economic and Technological Development Zone (QETDZ), Hebei Province, China.

Bycast CEO & Bycast Customer To Speak at Cloud Computing Expo 2009

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:30:00 EDT

Bycast Inc., the leading provider of storage virtualization software for enterprise storage clouds and digital archives, announced today that the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Moe Kermani, and a Bycast cloud storage customer, Iowa Health System, will both deliver presentations at Cloud Computing Expo 2009 taking place November 2-4 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California.

Amazon Takes MySQL to the Cloud; or Has It?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 EDT

Amazon have released a slew of new features and products for their cloud. But as usual, the devil is in the detail. I go into some of the issues and discover that this may not be for everyone

Amazon Cuts Prices

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:17:00 EDT

With Windows Azure just around the corner, Amazon figured it was time to blink and cut prices on its core EC2 cloud services. Starting November 1 all Linux-based on-demand EC2 compute instances will cost 15% than they have. That means, it say, that, say, a Small Standard Linux-based instance will run 8.5 cents an hour of computing, not the current price of 10 cents an hour.