Written by guest author Dave Zabrowski, Cloud Cruiser. Spending on IT cloud services is predicted to grow at more than five times the rate of the IT industry as organizations move a wide range of assets and workloads into the cloud. Analyst firm Gartner recently projected the cloud services market to exceed $148 billion by…
Puppet Lab had its major cloud upgrade in its features that will now provide orchestration, provisioning and automation of management capabilities of enterprise users. This move is expected to gain more leverage for the company in the management field. The application, Puppet Enterprise 2.0 is anticipated to be released on October 21, 2011. This being…
OpenStack recently strengthened their new cloud open source platform by introducing new application features to their existing cloud framework. The announcement was made last Thursday; the OpenStack upgrade will now include a new dashboard that will include a new service monitoring and user authentication security system called the Active Directory. NASA and Rackspace were the…
Google App Engine is expected to mark up its pricing this second week of September. This news was sent through an official email from the administrators of App Engine. This move was to update all their policies, support models and pricing that are fully supported by Google. Consumers should expect that all applications will now…
VMworld in Las Vegas is taking everyone by storm just like the recent Hurricane Irene and the momentous Labor Day celebration over the weekend. Both major and minor cloud computing players and vendors are competing hard core as they bring out their best and latest virtualization products for the public to see. Dell kicked off…
Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous with more players coming out with public cloud offerings (IBM Public Cloud, Korean Telecom, Tata Communications) and a number of cloud platforms have matured in the last one year including cloud.com (acquired by citrix), Cloupia and OpenStack. The latter, derived from NASA’s OpenNebula project and supported by RackSpace, is fast…
In one of the Jurassic Park movies, there was a statement, “You can’t contain life, life finds a way”. I believe that the same statement can be applied to innovation as well. Whatever circumstances, innovation would find a way to break through. Perhaps, the tougher the conditions, more innovation would come about. However, if the…
Due to stringent requirements, many government agencies have been slow to adopt the cloud, but Amazon’s new AWS GovCloud could be the solution. AWS GovCloud is a new secure region specialized for US government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive data into the cloud. On Tuesday, Amazon’s senior vice president of AWS Andy Jassy…
OpenLogic has a new product offering for PaaS (platform-as-a-service), CloudSwing, which is focused on providing technical services for open-source products for developers. CloudSwing users will now also have a way to bring together their software stacks for the cloud platform. Kim Weins, OpenLogic’s senior vice president for marketing said that customers will now have more…
Amazon’s Direct Connect is now working wonders by providing 10 Gbps through their cloud network. This is so far from the time when WAN lines were used in personal computers. In the past IBM’s SNA operated at just the speed of 19kbps in the 70’s and 80’s. But, now Amazon is speeding up and setting…