Cloud computing News

• Week of 14 May 2012 HP and Dell dominate server market but struggle in cloud (17 May 2012)

  HP and Dell are the largest hardware makers, but the two companies struggle to present strategies that portray them as serious cloud players.

• Week of 07 May 2012 Azure’s identity crisis and other cloud computing sound bites (11 May 2012)

  Microsoft Azure wants to be called Loretta. No, that’s not true. Or is it? Find out that answer and other news overheard in the cloud this past week.

• Is PaaS just another four-letter word in cloud computing? (10 May 2012)

  PaaS is a quick fix for companies looking to deploy new apps, but established firms with legacy apps may consider it a dirty word.

• Week of 30 Apr 2012 VMware Cloud Foundry on OpenStack puts kibosh on vendor lock-in (03 May 2012)

  OpenStack developer Piston Cloud Computing plans to integrate the Infrastructure as a Service platform with VMware's PaaS to eliminate lock-in.

• Week of 23 Apr 2012 AWS Marketplace offers Amazon EC2 customers one-click cloud (24 Apr 2012)

  Amazon broadens its cloud services with AWS Marketplace, creating a single-click experience and opening its public cloud to third-party developers.

• Week of 16 Apr 2012 OpenStack gains appeal with Puppet Labs integration (19 Apr 2012)

  Puppet Labs aligns with OpenStack software, as OpenStack vies with Citrix’s CloudStack and others to be the platform of choice for cloud.

• Amazon, Microsoft introduce search as a cloud service (17 Apr 2012)

  Amazon CloudSearch and Microsoft Bing vie to nail down search as an important category of service for cloud application developers.

• Week of 09 Apr 2012 BYOD and cloud services cause -- and ease -- IT security concerns (12 Apr 2012)

  There may be no single way to save end users from themselves, but certain cloud services may help soothe IT pros’ anxieties about BYOD security.

• Week of 02 Apr 2012 Citrix splits from OpenStack standard with CloudStack (06 Apr 2012)

  Citrix has gone its own way on cloud OSes with CloudStack but claims it doesn't want to kill OpenStack. However, it officially ended Project Olympus.

• OpenStack hopes extensible Essex attracts larger IT shops (05 Apr 2012)

  OpenStack delivered Essex, the fifth version of its cloud OS, with a raft of features for enterprises. Are they enough to lure large IT shops?

• IT pros forgo simplicity, use multiple cloud services (04 Apr 2012)

  While it may seem counterintuitive, some cloud services providers say customers opt to use multiple clouds for DevOps, disaster recovery and more.

• Week of 26 Mar 2012 IT pros bypass management, set up their own AWS clouds (29 Mar 2012)

  Consumerization isn’t just end user versus IT. Some IT pros bypass management to create public cloud apps that speed test-and-dev projects.

• Week of 19 Mar 2012 Amazon taps Eucalyptus to integrate public and private clouds (23 Mar 2012)

  AWS customers can easily move workloads between their data centers and Amazon’s public cloud services, thanks to a deal with Eucalyptus this week.

• Week of 12 Mar 2012 Microsoft Azure prices drop following Amazon, Google cloud rate cuts (13 Mar 2012)

  Three major cloud vendors slashed rates in one week, claiming the cuts were coincidental. Others say this signals a downward pricing trend.

• Azure outage may have cost Microsoft some public cloud customers (16 Mar 2012)

  Microsoft's Windows Azure outage wasn't as bad as it could have been, but the company's post mortem should have come out quicker, Azure customers say.

• Week of 05 Mar 2012 IBM gives SmartCloud Foundation shops more control (07 Mar 2012)

  IBM rolled out a handful of offerings for SmartCloud Foundation designed to give IT shops more visibility and control of their cloud environments.

• Google Cloud Storage rates slashed by up to 15% (09 Mar 2012)

  Google's latest cloud storage price cuts indicate infrastructure costs will likely continue to drop.

• Amazon EC2 price cuts benefit enterprise contract customers (07 Mar 2012)

  Amazon Web Services’ latest round of cloud service price cuts offer large contract customers deep discounts for Amazon EC2.

• Intel Xeon E5-2600 delivers eight-core CPU, more memory (SearchDataCenter.com | 06 Mar 2012)

  Intel shops now have support for more cores, more memory, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and speedier solid-state storage with the new Intel Xeon E5-2600.

• Week of 27 Feb 2012 Leap year 2012 outage hits Microsoft Windows Azure (29 Feb 2012)

  A leap year date glitch caused a 12-hour outage to Microsoft customers' ability to manage Windows Azure services. Does anyone remember Y2K?

• AppAssure purchase adds virtualized backup to Dell's cloud mix (28 Feb 2012)

  Dell adds virtual data backup and DR product AppAssure to its growing lineup of must-haves for the PC and server supplier's cloud services pitch.

• Week of 20 Feb 2012 AWS customers get cloud-based disaster recovery services with SunGard (20 Feb 2012)

  DR firm SunGard teams with Amazon Web Services to give enterprises cloud-based backup services. But the true cost of security remains vague.

• Virtual WAN optimization could speed public cloud adoption (23 Feb 2012)

  When going to the cloud, you could send data across town or across the ocean. Distance affects performance; virtual WAN optimization tools can help.

• Amazon Web Services adds workflow support for cloud applications (24 Feb 2012)

  AWS’s new Simple Workflow Service makes life easier for cloud app developers, but Microsoft got there first with a similar feature for Azure.

• Week of 13 Feb 2012 Citrix Systems jockeys for position in crowded cloud computing market (17 Feb 2012)

  Citrix thinks its cloud candidate can pull ahead in the industry, but enterprises may just see it as a copycat in an increasingly overcast sky.

• Cloud services sprawl poses problems for IT environments (15 Feb 2012)

  As IT shops increasingly adopt more competent cloud services from Amazon and others, cloud services sprawl and its runaway cost has become a problem.

• Week of 06 Feb 2012 Cloud infrastructure providers remain hot commodities (09 Feb 2012)

  Cloud infrastructure providers attracted acquisitive suitors last year. Profitable cloud vendors this year will catch the eye of telecoms.

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