Cloud news dominates VMworld 2009 |
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By Steve Cimino, Assistant Editor
04 Sep 2009 | SearchCloudComputing.com |
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Cloud computing roundup, August 31-September 4
VMware announces vCloud Express, releases APIs
VMware took advantage of VMworld 2009 to announce the release of both its vCloud Express brokerage service and vCloud application programming interface (API). The vCloud Express will allow "enterprises that already use VMware virtualization to start extending their deployments into the cloud," and the API release comes after the API releases from fellow public cloud providers Rackspace and Amazon.
Xen and Citrix try to one-up VMware
Xen.org, the Citrix-backed developers of the Xen open source hypervisor, announced its new open source cloud platform known as the Xen Cloud Platform.
New cloud services abound
Skytap, OpSource and Savvis have all announced similar public cloud offerings aimed at the enterprise.
Gmail goes down, cloud under scrutiny
Gmail, Google's cloud-based email application, suffered a 100-minute outage earlier in the week, reigniting a general discussion about the pros and cons of storing certain information solely in the cloud.
EMC acquires FastScale
In another example of the private cloud drawing increased focus, EMC has acquired data center software vendor FastScale Technology to bolster support for its private cloud offerings.
Cast Iron casts into Amazon's cloud
Cloud integration provider Cast Iron Systems is renting space on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, a move that will allow its customers to move data from EC2 applications to their data centers and back again.
Wipro to offer the cloud
Wipro Technologies, one of the largest IT outsourcing providers in India, is launching a hosting service called w-SaaS that will allow companies to offer their existing applications as Software as a Service.
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