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Amazon Web Services vs OpenStack: We Need Choice
01 Jul 2012
Rackspace’s President, Lew Moorman, has recently made a statement regarding the cloud market, basically stating that the industry needs to have an open source alternative to the current leader in public cloud infrastructure, Amazon Web Services. According to the Rackspace executi[etc]view more ››
Assessing The Costs of Cloud Outages
01 Jul 2012
According to the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR), the total downtime of 13 well-known cloud services since 2007 amounts to 568 hours, which has an economic impact of around $71.7 million dollars. In IWGCR’s research, they have stated that the 7.5[etc]view more ››
Cisco Extends Social Collaboration to Cloud, Mobile Devices
29 Jun 2012
In order to help workers to collaborate anytime, anywhere, Cisco has announced significant new capabilities that extend the social partnership to mobile devices and cloud applications. The developments are part of what is now known as Cisco WebEx Social (formerly Cisco Quad) and[etc]view more ››
10 Enterprise Applications That Are Public Cloud Ready
29 Jun 2012
Casa Video and Netflix are examples of organizations that use the public cloud for core operations, with Casa Video using Amazon Web Services to run their entire operations, from computing to storage and running multiple instances with load balancing. Netflix, on the other hand,[etc]view more ››
Google Taking on AWS, Launching Further Cloud Services at Developer Conference
28 Jun 2012
There’s a talk around town. Google is allegedly set to launch a cloud service at its I/O conference, finally marking Google’s foray into the cloud computing industry, and putting them in direct competition with current market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google’s offering wi[etc]view more ››
Red Hat Introduces JBoss Enterprise Platforms for Fast Cloud App Deployment
28 Jun 2012
More than two months after publishing its beta, Enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat has officially launched on the market JBoss Data Grid 6, a NoSQL in-memory database logically designed to trendy world of Big Data for its JBoss management platform. Today, the main cha[etc]view more ››
Cloud Security: McAfee Intends to Tame the Cloud
26 Jun 2012
McAfee, the Intel security firm, introduced new enhancements to its platform in the cloud during the Cloud Expo 2012 held in New York. McAfee Cloud Security Platform will provide options to ensure the three main channels of traffic information – email, web and identity, in order[etc]view more ››
CliQr Technologies Cloud-Application Platform Moves Enterprise Applications to the Cloud
26 Jun 2012
CliQr Technologies launches today with a new cloud platform that empowers existing applications to move to the Cloud. CliQr has been emerging from over one and a half years spent refining its revolutionary cloud application management platform and monitoring the success of early[etc]view more ››
9 Open Source Big Data Technologies Set to Change the Web
25 Jun 2012
Big Data is booming these days, as more and more companies realize the benefit of storing data and leveraging it for useful insights. At the forefront of this Big Data revolution is Open Source technology, since majority of Big Data companies prefer it over closed source technolo[etc]view more ››
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