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Permabit Unveils New Cloud Storage Package for ISPs

August 10th, 2009 | No Comments

The new Permabit Cloud Solution’s base configurations can handle up to a whopping 144TB raw disk capacity and are tuned for use by cloud storage service providers with additional management features, CEO Tom Cook said.
– Permabit Technology, which specializes in highly scalable, tiered storage appliances for large enterprises, Aug. 10 introduced a new version of its software/hardware package aimed specifically at cloud storage providers.

The new Permabit Cloud Solution’s base configurations can handle up to a who…



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Study: Half of All Developers Plan Private Cloud Deployments

August 5th, 2009 | No Comments

If a recent Evans Data study is any indication, private cloud deployments could rise sharply over the next year.
– If a recent Evans Data study is any indication, private cloud deployments could rise sharply over the next year.
According to the Evans Data Cloud Development Survey, 48.9 percent
of developers surveyed said they plan to deploy applications in a
private cloud in the coming year. The survey also s…



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Informatica Launches Data Integration Service in the Cloud

August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

PowerCenter Cloud Edition uses Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB and Amazon S3 [storage] to provide access to enterprise data sources such as relational databases, flat files and SaaS applications.
– Data integration software provider Informatica has released a beta version of its new PowerCenter Cloud Edition, an enterprise-level data integration tool that can run in the cloud on Amazon Elastic Cloud 2 (EC2).

An earlier version of PowerCenter, released in 2006, is currently available as a st…



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How UCSB Grad Students Put Cloud Computing Power into Ubuntu

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

UPDATED: Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud package includes the UCSB-developed Eucalyptus cloud-building software — the first Linux distribution to include a do-it-yourself cloud kit. Eucalyptus adds a number of new functions to Ubuntu, such as end-user customization, self-service provisioning, legacy application support and automated power controls.
– SAN JOSE, Calif. — A National Science Foundation grant project
developed largely by graduate students at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, has resulted in Eucalyptus Systems, a three-month-old
startup which has produced new open-source cloud infrastructure
software that is a key comp…


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HP Takes Data Center Transformation Services on the Road

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Using their own experiences in consolidating 85 data centers into six, HP officials have spent the past year meeting with customers to help them start thinking about what is involved in transforming their data centers into dynamic, efficient and cost-effect facilities. Most customers talk about virtualization and cloud computing, but HP officials say there is a lot more to it than that.
– MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Three years ago, Hewlett-Packard officials announced an ambitious data center consolidation plan that would reduce the number of facilities worldwide from 85 to six.
The project not only has given HP a much more cost-effective, efficient and dynamic data center environment, but i…


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Novell Launching IAM into the Cloud

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Novell is unveiling a cloud-based security service to perform identity and access management for hosted applications and hosted storage. The vendor plans to unveil the technology next week at a conference in San Diego.
– Novell plans to pull the covers off a cloud computing security service designed to provide identity and access management for hosted applications and storage next week.
The company will showcase the new technology, as well as a compliance reporting suite, at the upcoming Burton Group Catalyst Co…


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Engine Yard Delivers Ruby on Rails Cloud Services

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Engine Yard, a provider of Ruby on Rails automation and management technologies, announces the availability of its Engine Yard Cloud services platform and the general availability of Flex, a cloud services plan for production-level Ruby on Rails applications.
– Engine Yard, a provider of Ruby on Rails automation and management
technologies, on July 21 announced the availability of its Engine Yard Cloud services
platform and the general availability of Flex, a cloud services plan for
production-level Ruby on Rails applications. According to the company:
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RingCentral Offers Web-Based Phone Platform for SMBs

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

RingCentral leverages the cloud computing model to offer a Web-based phone system for SMBs as an alternative to traditional phone carriers such as AT T and newcomers such as Google Voice or Ifbyphone. RingCentral Office costs $99.99 per month for up to four users and includes several of the bells and whistles business users have come to associate with traditional phone and fax services.
– Much is made about Skype and Google Voice, applications that let consumers use the
Web as a medium for voice communications, but you don’t tend to hear a lot
about business phone systems living entirely in the cloud.
RingCentral aims to change that with the introduction of RingCentral Office, a …


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CloudClimate Website Monitors Cloud Service Performance

July 17th, 2009 | No Comments

German network monitoring software maker Paessler has debuted CloudClimate.com, which posts the real-time results of performance monitoring of several cloud-hosting services such as Amazon EC2 and GoGrid CloudServers, as well as cloud storage services such as Amazon CloudFiles and S3. The goal is to give customers a way to compare services and to help service providers find problems in their environments. Its also a way for Paessler to showcase its solutions.
– A network monitoring software maker is creating a Website that shows
the real-time performance of several public cloud computing
environments, including Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud.
Paessler AG, a German software company that also has offices in
Portland, Ore., is using its PRTG Network Monito…


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Poor monsoon looms as cloud to India’s economic recovery

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

India is fretting once again over a poor monsoon just as other signs point to a rebounding economy, exposing its nagging reliance on unpredictable seasonal rains   despite its rapid growth and modernisation in recent years. Unless India makes sweeping reforms to upgrade its fragmented andIndia is fretting once again over a poor monsoon just as other signs point to a rebounding economy, exposing its nagging reliance on unpredictable seasonal rains   despite its rapid growth and modernisation in recent years. Unless India makes sweeping reforms to upgrade its fragmented and

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SenSage Pushes Cloud-Based Event Data Warehouse

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

SenSage has turned its attention to the cloud for event data warehousing. The latest release of its software, SenSage 4.5, is aimed directly at bringing unlimited, elastic storage and processing to cloud-based event data warehousing applications.
– SenSage is now taking its
event data warehouse concept to the cloud.
With SenSage 4.5, the company has decided to target cloud-based computing
environments by offering the product as a software as a service aimed
at public cloud service providers interested in offering SenSage
products.
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Microsoft Azure Could Curb Enterprise Fears About the Cloud

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft is making an aggressive push for Azure, its cloud-based developer platform, to be adopted by the enterprise. While companies have expressed reservations about moving applications and development to the cloud, the standardization and functionality offered by Azure could convince them to take the jump, even if they eventually end up on a rival platform offered by Amazon.com, Google or Salesforce.com.
– Microsoft’s
new cloud-based platform, Azure, could offer the enterprise a way to overcome
its reservations about porting IT infrastructure online, even if companies
ultimately choose to utilize another cloud platform.
Azure, which Microsoft originally announced on Oct. 27, 2008, at the Professi…


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Rackspace Releases New Public API for Cloud Development

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Users of the Cloud Servers API will have control panel and programmatic access to Rackspace’s cloud infrastructure services, which are Cloud Servers, Cloud Files and Slicehost. The API for standards-based cloud servers is designed to give IT managers and software developers better control over their cloud infrastructures.
– Cloud services provider Rackspace on July 14 released the public beta of a
new API for software developers interested
in better and more direct control over their own hosted computing structures.

The Cloud Servers API immediately becomes an
alternative to Amazon EC2, an online platform used f…


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Microsoft Azure Is Free Until November

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference that Azure, its public cloud platform, will be free until Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in November. Intended to go head-to-head against similar cloud-platform offerings from Amazon.com and Google, Azure is just one of the flagship programs that Microsoft has been demonstrating at the conference, along with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010.
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Microsoft will make Azure, its public-cloud platform, available for free until its
Professional Developers Conference in November. Availability will begin on July
14.

Citing a Gartner study that showed the cloud service business
as a potential quot;$150 billion business opportunity for the…


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Microsoft Azure Is Free Until November

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft announces at its Worldwide Partner Conference that Azure, its public cloud platform, will be free until the Professional Developers Conference in November. Intended to go head-to-head against similar cloud platform offerings from Amazon.com and Google, Azure is just one of the flagship programs that Microsoft has been demonstrating at the conference, along with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010.
– Microsoft
will make Azure, its public cloud platform, available for free until its
Professional Developers Conference in November. Azure will be available beginning
July 14.
Citing a Gartner study that showed cloud services as a potential quot;$150
billion business opportunity for the marketp…


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Microsoft Office 2010 Could Be a Revenue Boon or Bomb

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft Office 2010 marks the transition of the productivity suite from primarily desktop-based applications to products served for free from either the cloud or a combination of cloud and on-premises data center. Considering that a large portion of Microsofts bottom-line revenue is derived from its productivity and business products, the inevitable question arises: How will Office’s transition to the cloud affect the companys bottom line?
– The shift of Microsoft
Office 2010 from a primarily desktop to cloud-based application suite was a
fairly radical one for Microsoft, which is looking for a strategic advantage
over Google and other companies that have launched online productivity
products.
Once released, Office 2010 will a…


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10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Cloud Storage and Computing

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Cloud computing serves up computing power, data storage or applications from one data center location over a grid to thousands or millions of users on a subscription basis. This general kind of cloud for example, services provided online by Amazon EC2, Google Apps and Salesforce.com is known as a public cloud because any business or individual can subscribe. Private cloud computing is a different take on the mainstream version, in that smaller cloudlike IT systems within a firewall offer similar services, but to a closed internal network. This network may include corporate or division offices, other companies that are also business partners, raw-material suppliers, resellers, production-chain entities, and other organizations intimately connected with a corporate mother ship. Public or private, cloud computing is getting the IT industry excited. Gartner analysts in March 2009 said global cloud services revenue could move beyond $56.3 billion this year from $46.4 billion in 2008 and grow to $150.1 billion in 2013. IBM Vice President of Cloud Services Ric Telford offers eWEEK readers his take in the following slide show.
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