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- Rackspace Survey Reveals Hosting Customers Believe Virtualization is Ready for Mission-Critical Applications
- Performance and Security Fears Leave Hosting Customers Unwilling to Share Physical Server with Other Virtualization Customers
- Research articles 2007-08-13
- 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 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
- 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
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- Xen.org to build open-standards cloud platform
- The Xen.org community has announced plans to build a new cloud platform for service providers, as the basis of an initiative designed to help private and public cloud services cooperate using open standards.The planned Xen Cloud Platform XCP, announced on Monday, will combine enhanced security, storage, and network virtualization capabilities...
- News items 2009-09-01
- 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
- 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
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