MongoLab, a cloud-based database provider created by San Francisco-based ObjectLabs, announced today that it has closed a $3 million series A funding round led by GRP Partners, Freestyle Capital, Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures, David Cohen, and others. The list of investors is impressive, considering that it includes several names involved in the funding of other…
Sony’s PSN Issues Nothing to do with Cloud Computing Security The recent Sony’s PlayStation Network security issue and Amazon Web service outage brought a number of people calling for the downfall of cloud computing. Sony’s security blunder that let loose 100 million credit card numbers turned into a learning experience for the company to correct…
A private cloud is many different things to many different people. Some stop at virtualization, other take it at the automation of the provisioning and elasticity, and some others take it to the final level and talk about chargebacks. In our view, a private cloud is a computing environment which provides hosted services to a…
The recent Sony’s PlayStation Network security issue and Amazon Web service outage brought a number of people calling for the downfall of cloud computing. Sony’s security blunder that let loose 100 million credit card numbers turned into a learning experience for the company to correct their flaws. A Reuter’s article highlighted Sony’s ability to bring…
This expert guide looks at the top 5 areas to watch out for when choosing a management solution for your virtual environment, and it also covers the reasons why you need to use management solutions that are designed specifically for virtualization. DOWNLOAD THE FULL WHITEPAPER
The architectural concept of virtualized hybrid cloud architecture is compelling. It demands a set of virtualized servers within the data center to move virtual machines between public cloud providers to the data center dynamically. Establishing balance between the private and public clouds at the VM level, moving virtual machines between on-premise and public cloud servers,…
In its 18th year running, TiEcon has attracted 3000+ attendees. Each year, TiEcon creates a magical ecosystem and brings together entrepreneurs, professionals, advisors, investors, customers, and VCs for networking, thought-provoking talks, and idea sharing. Many startups have been launched from such platforms and many others walk away inspired and motivated about their professional vision. TiEcon…
CloudTimes has done some deep analysis to identify cloud service offerings which are going to be the 10 most important ones in 2011. Here is our take on the current trends and the information available today that allows to see a bit into future and say what would be going strong a few months down…
An innovative cloud-based offering “Coremetrics Lifecycle” has been launched recently by IBM. IBM has identified this new market which could be described as deep online marketing, and which the company estimates will be worth US$ 20 billion in software sales alone by 2015. The software is cloud based and offers an in-depth study of customers’…
CloudSlam’s third edition was presented by CloudCor and it was held from April 18th to 22nd of this year. This third edition is a virtual annual conference about cloud computing. Many latest trends and innovations on cloud computing were showcased during this edition. The first edition of CloudSlam was initiated in the year 2009 and…