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- VMware buys SpringSource for USD420m
- Software maker VMware is buying cloud computing and virtualisation software firm SpringSource in a cash-and-stock deal worth USD362m. The firm is also assuming USD58m in unvested stock and options. The deal pushes VMware further into the world of cloud computing,...
- Articles 2009-08-10
- Rackspace May Dabble Its Way Into Cloud Silver Lining
- Rackspace, normally associated with server co-location and hosting services, will be using a hybrid approach to cloud computing, letting customers switch between hosted data centers and cloud computing resources. Although it may not appear as "pure" as what some other major vendors tout, the company is smart, honing in on...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Rackspace Isn't A Cloud Vendor, It's A Tech Vendor
- Hosting and cloud computing vendor Rackspace suffered an hour-long shortage yesterday, as my colleague Erik Sherman discussed. Erik quite correctly notes that cloud vendors have to overcome fears about cloud security and availability that are exacerbated by exactly this kind of incident. The sad thing is that...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
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- What's the definition of cloud computing?
- What's the definition of cloud computing? I keep asking myself that question and hearing different answers. Despite the frequent use of the term, it still means different things to different people. That was evident at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo this week in Santa Clara, where I thought I...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Taking Stock Of Cloud Computing
- Contrary to popular preconceptions, cloud computing isn't the stuff of start-ups and fringe companies â€" it's really big business run by very public companies (and I don't just mean Salesforce.com and VMware). My colleague Erik Sherman has an interesting take on the cloud computing business model, but putting aside his...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Rackspace IPO Settles for Half Its Hoped-For Price
- Erick Schonfeld submits: After filing for an IPO last April in which it hoped to raise $400 million, Web hosting provider (and cloud-computing aspirant) Rackspace finally priced its IPO last night at $12.50 a share. That would have brought in $187.5 million, or half what it was hoping for....
- External links 2008-08-08
- Rackspace launches cloud app partner portal
- Rackspace on Tuesday rolled out Cloud Tools, a repository of partner tools, applications and services for cloud computing. The marketplace puts apps and tools into four buckets: Monitoring and reporting;Development tools;Systems management;And client software. Cloud Tools is more of a portal approach than an app store. Developers and partners set...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Citrix to Take on VMware in the Cloud
- Citrix and Xen.org are planning to roll out a strategy for a open-source cloud computing platform based on the Xen virtualization hypervisor. The announcement will come on the first day of VMware?s VMworld show. The Xen Cloud Platform will compete directly with VMware?s vCloud offering, and will run competing virtualization...
- News items 2009-08-29
- Will Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud Be Private Enough?
- Amazon last night announced it Virtual Private Cloud service, essentially giving enterprise customers worried about security and control in the cloud a salve to get them to trust it. The offering provides access to Amazon's web services through a virtual private network, which is basically a secure tunnel through the...
- News items 2009-08-26
- When is a cloud not a cloud?
- The answer to the question I've posed in my title is blindingly obvious, yet it seems to be one of those things that never hits you between the eyes until one day, something makes you stop and just think it through. For myself, I've been giving this a lot of...
- News items 2009-08-28
- NetApp Reveals Its Partner-Centric Cloud Strategy
- The company also introduced the Data OnTap 8 platform, which serves as its cloud computing package for data centers. NetApp also has rounded up an impressive list of partners to supply the cloud computing components that it does not provide: servers, networking, applications, and services.NetApp, which has long specialized in...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Weekly Wrapup: Real Time Delicious, Read/Write Digg, Web Squared, And More...
- In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze the impact of real-time information on the Web, investigate 'web squared' (when web 2.0 meets Internet of Things), tell you why cloud computing is the future of mobile, look at...
- News items 2009-08-08
- Rackspace Launches 'Cloud Tools' In Attempt to Organize Cloud Support
- Larry Dignan ZDNet submits: Rackspace RAX on Tuesday rolled out Cloud Tools, a repository of partner tools, applications and services for cloud computing. The marketplace puts apps and tools into four buckets: by Larry Dignan
- External links 2009-08-25
- Study: Developers Pick Google, IBM as Top Cloud Platforms
- Evans Data has released the results of a new study that indicates that software developers view Google as the company most capable of executing in a public cloud setting and they view IBM as best for the private cloud.Evans Data has released the results of a new study that indicates that...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Rackspace Outage Shows Delicacy of Cloud [UPDATED]
- According to sister site CNET, hosting company Rackspace experienced an outage today. This is the type of incident that will have to become as uncommon as eggplants with wings before cloud computing can get the wide enterprise adoption that so many pundits and vendors insist is just around the corner....
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- PDC09: Writing For the Azure Platform, New Visual Studio Features
- At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Bob Muglia, president of server and tools, talked about how applications are evolving in the cloud era, and showed off some new and upcoming features for Azure and Visual Studio. Muglia talked about how the company has been talking about services for a long time,...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Microsoft Shows Off Visual Studio 2010
- Muglia talked about how the company has been talking about services for a long time, but how the cloud computing model has evolved to make it more effective. He said that there were many advantages that people associate with cloud computing that are important, such as being service-oriented and designed...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Microsoft Uses Geek Elite To Make Azure Launch A Smash Hit
- When you launch a make or break initiative like Windows Azure, you better get it right. Well, from our vantage point, Microsoft got it right. How? In front of a sea of developers at the Professional Developers Conference , Microsoft trotted out a group...
- News items 2009-11-17
- EngineYard Raises $19 Million in New Funds
- Engine Yard, a San Francisco-based start-up that makes Ruby on Rails automation and management products has raised $19 million in its third round of venture capital funding from the likes of DAG Ventures, Bay Partners, and Presidio Ventures a Sumitomo Corporation venture investment company. Previous investors that include Benchmark Capital,...
- News items 2009-10-08
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