Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
OpenStack could be the Linux of the cloud
OpenStack has the potential to become as widely used in cloud computing as Linux in servers, according to Rackspace’s chief executive Lanham Napier. Napier noted that OpenStack has more code contributors than Linux did when it started: it had 206 code contributors by its 84th week, whereas Linux took 615 weeks to get to that […]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
1000Mbps internet speed coming from Google
Google will be launching 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps) Internet connection in Kansas City, US. This will be run over fiber Will offer 2 TB of space Will offer HD video from Netflix and YouTube No more buffering and waiting This will drive a lot of cloud applications as network speed is the key bottleneck for […]
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Saturday, July 21st, 2012
10 reasons you might need a chief cloud officer
Cloud computing is more than just a new set of technologies businesses can utilize — it is a new way of thinking about technology. As a result, businesses are being challenged to transform every single practice and policy they are using to govern how IT systems are managed and deployed. This IT/business evolution spotlights the […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Opportunities And Trends In Virtualization
Virtualization and its many flavors has been one of the most dominating and influential technologies that has evolved over the past five years. While the technology has gained wide acceptance, it is also seen as a key element behind the cloud computing wave that is sweeping the IT landscape today. Indian IT partners have started […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
If AWS is the Walmart of cloud, is OpenStack the Soviet Union?
The Cloud Faceoff! The stage was set for a lively debate between public cloud rivals at GigaOM Structure in San Francisco Thursday – representatives from Citrix, Eucalyptus and the OpenStack project certainly delivered. Nebula CEO and OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp didn’t even get past the introductions before he challenged his fellow panelists on their “closed†[…]
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
Cloning Amazon Is a Dead End, Says Cloud Rival Rackspace
Does the rest of the cloud computing world really need to clone Amazon Web Services in order to succeed? Probably not, says Lew Moorman, the president of Rackspace, the San Antonio, Texas, company that plays second fiddle to Amazon in the cloud game. According to him, some customers want companies like his to clone all […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Insight into Enterprise Cloud Storage
It may be known to some as the Dropbox-for-the-enterprise, but Box.com could be forgiven for insisting on its own identity. With more than 120,000 customers, including 82 percent of the Fortune 500, the company has made a name for itself as one of the leaders in the enterprise cloud storage and data management space. Read […]
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
How HP Cloud Will Differentiate from Amazon, Rackspace
HP has now jumped on the bandwagon as a cloud service provider with HP Cloud. Here is an excerpts from Senior VP of HP Cloud services: On When OpenStack Reached Its Tipping Point: My thesis: The day Canonical shifted Ubuntu’s cloud bet from Eucalyptus to OpenStack, it was a wake up call for small vendors […]
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Friday, March 30th, 2012
Microsoft, Google in open war in India
Google and Microsoft, two of the world’s largest technology firms, are raining blows on each other as they hard sell their so-called cloud services and vie for dominance in a market estimated to grow to $15-18 billion by 2020. “Google is the largest cloud services company in India,” claimed Rajan Anandan, Google’s India head since January […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
Gigaom has a nice article comparing the costs of hosting your website on Amazon Web Services or self-hosting your own site. Zynga has made it known that for economic reasons, they now use their own infrastructure for baseline loads and use Amazon for peaks and variable loads surrounding new game introductions. Read more at Gigaom.
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip
Anand Agarwal directs the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s vaunted Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL. His company Tilera sells chips with 16, 32, and 64 cores, and it’s scheduled to ship a CPU with 100 cores. It is green cause its power efficient. A 400-watt Tilera server provides as much processing power as […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Cloud Demystified
Cloud is the buzz of today and many people are getting very confused on what is the cloud. To put is in simple way, Cloud is any service delivered on the Internet. Cloud based hosted services have been around for 10 years however now people are calling it Cloud. Lets take an example, if a […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Open Source solution to Microsoft Azure
Build on VMWare CloudFoundry, IronFoundry offers .NET support in the Cloud. Cloud Foundry is VMWare’s PaaS solution which is open sourced. Tier 3 (the company behind IronFoundry) has take the code and added support for .NET.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Why OpenStack is important
OpenStack is the future of Cloud computing. Founded by NASA and Rackspace it aims to provide a fully scalable open source cloud infrastructure. This can be deployed to build a public cloud or your own private cloud. Here are the reasons why I believe OpenStack will be successful. Its completely Open Source, hence it is […]
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
10 cloud startups to watch in 2012
From Gigaom’s article: The past few years have been nothing if not a boon for entrepreneurs looking to cash in on venture capitalists’ lust for all things cloud.  All the activity has been great, and we’ve seen some exciting new companies emerge and prosper — companies such as Heroku, RightScale and New Relic — but […]
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
How Has Cloud Computing Changed Business?
Mashable has a nice infographic on how Cloud Computing has changed businesses.
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Enterprise and Private Cloud Solutions – Conversations in the Cloud
Recently published postcast on Ubuntu Cloud. This was recorded at Intel Cloud Summit. Conversations in the Cloud. Direct link to the pod cast.
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
Test drive your own private cloud
If you want to test drive your own private cloud, try Ubuntu Cloud Live. It’s a 600 MB image, just download, burn to USB drive, boot your system with it and you have a cloud setup. Download the image from here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-cloud-live/releases/11.10/ubuntu-11.10-cloud-live-amd64.img Note: This is a 64-bit mage. Recommended to have atleast a 4GB pen […]
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Ubuntu bets on cloud computing, tie-ups
Ubuntu that it launched last week, to penetrate markets such as India where an impending launch of third generation (3G) services is expected to make cloud computing accessible to individual users. I have been quoted in this article in The Mint: Prakash Advani, partner and manager, central Asia, at Canonical, said once broadband connectivity improves […]
