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Amazon Offering More Competitive Options to Enterprises
Research firm Gartner lists the public cloud as one of the fastest growing verticals in enterprise IT, and Amazon has apparently been taking notes. Some of Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) larger customers report that the cloud services provider is offering increasingly attractive deals with much more competitive pricing. What’s the catch? Vendor lock-in. The new ...
Rackspace Coming to a Full Circle with OpenStack Cloud Launch
Monday was a big day for Rackspace . The web host is one of the founders of OpenStack, an open cloud platform project that it collaborated on with NASA and a few others two years ago. Now, several releases and hundreds of additional contributors later, Rackspace has fired up its own commercial OpenStack cloud. This week ...
HP: webOS won’t Run on Existing Devices
Hewlett-Packard bought out the struggling Palm, and its webOS operating system, in 2010 with the goal of entering the highly-competitive mobile market. The hardware giant put a lot of weight behind webOS under the leadership of former CEO Leo Apotheker, but once the keynotes were over and the devices hit the market it turned out ...
As Promised, NetFlix Open Sources Chaos Monkey
Content streaming and movie rental service Netflix utilizes cloud computing to power its core operations. In fact, the bulk of Netflix’s infrastructure is cloud-based, and it is one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) largest customers. Netflix has developed an entire arsenal of tools that help it manage its massive cloud environment and more efficiently manage outages and ...
Enterprise Migration to the Cloud Still Has a Long Way to Go
The public cloud is picking up momentum, but many large enterprises are still hesitant about jumping aboard the public “as-a-service” bandwagon. Dan Lamorena, a director for Symantec’s storage and availability management group, explained, “You may not see the mass adoption of the cloud [in large enterprises] for five, ten or even fifteen years. Many organizations won’t change ...
Gartner Raises 2012 Cloud Spending Forecast
Citing a “stabilized” outlook, research firm Gartner expects enterprises to spend 3 percent more on IT, a slight increase from the 2.5 percent growth it noted in a report published earlier this year. Gartner estimates that $3.6 trillion dollars will be spent on IT in 2012. Spending on IT is expected to grow 2.3 percent to $864 ...
Azure Outage Caused by Networking Glitch, GM Says
Microsoft is one of the latest companies trying to clean up reputation damage inflicted by an outage of its cloud services. Mike Neil, the general manager in charge of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, wrote a blog post explaining the reason for the service interruption that hit customers in Western Europe last week. The blackout happened on July 26 ...
appMobi Launches Free HTML5 Packaging Service
appMobi announced openBuild this week, a free cloud service that makes it easier for HTML5 developers to optimize their apps for all the different app stores out there. While HTML5 may be able to run both iOS and Android, actually deploying an app written in the language in the App Store or Google Play, not ...
Hewlett-Packard Goes All-Flash with 3PAR
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard announced a new commitment to SSD storage with a new 3PAR configuration, P10000. This variation of the single tier storage array runs on SSDs, and as a result offers several advantages including less overhead than its disk-based sibling – up to 80 percent reduced cost per kilowatt according to the company. More ...
Overdue SAP Trial Invites Developers to Play in their Ecosystem
Business intelligence kingpin SAP is looking to create a mobile ecosystem, and this week the company announced a new initiative that aims to incentivize developers who might be interesting in joining the program. SAP has a huge, global clientele that could benefit from both business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications. But the company wants to let third ...
