Cloud Computing Strategies for the CIO
The Daily Cloud is SearchCloudComputing.com's oft-irreverent look at the world of cloud computing. August's editions include Amazon.com's surprising cloud computing earnings, RightScale's outstanding customer growth and a new app store from GoGrid.
Microsoft adds single sign-on capabilities to Azure
August 9, 2010
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform now offers single
sign-on capabilities, possibly even in conjunction with Google and Yahoo's Web services.
GoGrid launches open source app store
August 6, 2010
GoGrid
will trade usage statistics and marketing help for open source, cloud-ready server images and
applications to host on its infrastructure.
RightScale customer spending grows tenfold in a year
August 5, 2010
RightScale's customer base is spending
10 times what they did in 2009, with the total number of servers in use growing 277%.
BlueCat and Afilias offer DNS as a Service
August 4, 2010
The new
Proteus service from BlueCat Networks and Afilias claims to remove DNS management and security
tasks entirely…for a fee.
UBS says Amazon makes $500 million on cloud computing
August 3, 2010
Amazon Web Services earns an apparent $500
million a year from cloud computing, a number that pales in comparison to Amazon.com's total
annual revenues.
IDC: Cloud providers to spend $718 million by 2014
August 2, 2010
Research
from IDC predicts that public cloud computing providers will spend more than 700 million
dollars a year on server sales by 2014.
This was first published in August 2010
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