High capacity Amazon cloud computing update targets app bottlenecks
Amazon Web Services Thursday released a solid state drive-backed cloud compute offering that one industry watcher says is among the highest capacity ones on the market.
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SalesForce outages show SaaS customers largely at "mercy" of providers
Software as a service (SaaS) applications are generally more difficult to prepare disaster recovery plans for compared to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings, analyst and consultants say. And given the recent example of two SalesForce.com outages in as many weeks, it's a topic they say customers don't generally pay enough attention to.
Free OpenStack test bed brings ARM into the cloud
Rackspace, one of the main backers of OpenStack, has added a free ARM-based environment for testing the open source cloud deployment project.
In Pictures: 15 amazing tech feats and world records
Not to be outdone by athletes at this summer’s Olympic games, techies have been setting some world records of their own of late.
Update: Maritz out as CEO of VMware; EMC's Gelsinger in
Paul Maritz is stepping down as CEO of VMware and will be replaced by EMC President and COO Pat Gelsinger.
Datapipe launches largest CloudStack deployment
Managed hosting and cloud computing provider Datapipe has launched the largest geographic deployment of an Apache CloudStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, the company says.
Report: Maritz out as VMware CEO
A flurry of reports indicates that Paul Maritz is no longer the CEO of VMware and that the virtualization company may spin out its Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering as a separate company.
Perfect storm for managed service, co-lo and cloud industries
Even with the cloud computing market growing at more than double the pace of the managed service and colocation industries, analyst Philbert Shih of Structure Research told a conference of hosting providers Monday that their sector is still well poised for growth into the future.
Avaya expands mid-market reach with IP Office 8.1 release
Avaya today announced the latest version of its unified communication (UC) software, IP Office 8.1, which the company says brings UC features typically reserved for large enterprises to smaller ones.
Gartner: Cloud putting crimp in traditional software, hardware sales
Enterprise spending on cloud computing growing at a faster rate than overall IT spending will pose a challenge to legacy hardware and software vendors, Gartner cloud forecaster Ed Anderson says.
Feds: We need priority access to cloud resources
Federal agencies must be assured priority and uninterrupted access to public cloud resources before fully embracing the technology for national security and emergency response IT functions, a recent report finds.
Higgs boson researchers consider move to Cloud computing
How did European researchers working on the Higgs boson recently make one of the most revolutionary physics discoveries in recent decades? From an IT perspective, they relied on a good old-fashioned grid computing infrastructure, though a new Cloud-based one may be in the offing.
Sprint teams with CSC on IaaS cloud
Sprint is jumping into the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud market via a joint venture with established cloud vendor CSC, the companies announced Tuesday.
Four tips to prepare for the next Amazon outage
It happened again: Amazon Web Service suffered its latest outage in late June. Now, as the dust has settled, customers are reassessing what lessons can be learned and how to prepare for the inevitable next one.
VMware: It's not all about us anymore
VMware's recent acquisition of cloud management company DynamicOps could signal that the virtualization company is truly beginning to embrace non-VMware centered clouds, something analysts say is not only good for customers, but necessary for the company.