Almost everything that Google publicized for its I/O developer conference held in San Francisco last week focused on one significant thing: Google’s faith and certainty with the Cloud. For the last few weeks, there have been reports stating that cloud isn’t doing well perhaps due to Amazon’s current issues. It was not so long ago…
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…
It’s quite hard to understand that despite the advances in technology, the Internet, which is the keystone of free communication, is still delimited by geographical restrictions. We are referring to Amazon’s two newest offerings, both of which are only offered in the US. Together with Cloud Player, Amazon also tossed Cloud Drive, which mainly functions…
HP’s CEO Leo Apotheker recently announced that cloud computing is one of HP’s key initiatives and the company is aiming to be a public cloud giant. Yesterday, one HP exec showed the company’s cloud hand in a LinkedIn update that gave details of where HP’s taking its public cloud play. The Register reported last night…
Online retail giant Amazon Inc. has experienced a major outage of its Web-hosting and cloud-computing platform. Large websites such as Foursquare and Reddit became unavailable due to the disruption of Amazon Web Services. Amazon issued an apology in response to the situation. As compensation, the company offered a 10-day service credit to subscribers of its…
The US government is facing a revolution in IT infrastructure. The country’s first CIO, Vivek Kundra has taken early steps towards moving federal IT to the Cloud. Back in November 2010, Jeffrey Zients, the federal government’s first chief performance officer, announced that the Office of Management and Budget will now require federal agencies to default…
Hewlett-Packard is trying to compete directly with Amazon.com Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. by leveraging its large manufacturing base and experience with servers and computers to build a new “cloud” service. HP has been largely absent from the newest Internet trend “cloud computing,” but its servers are sold to companies who use them to create their…
More than a year ago Netflix was having problems keeping up with the growth in demand for its services and turned to the cloud for help. The company decided to move most of its production systems into Amazon EC2 after having struggled to keep up by building its data center. Last year Netflix launched the…
On Tuesday, during his Cloud Connect keynote, Werner Vogels, the Vice President and CTO of Amazon, stressed on the fact that the cloud computing department of Amazon.com has become an ecosystem, and has come a long way from the simple computing cloud it started out to be. “The cloud’s ecosystem is what defines the cloud,…
Cloud Connect kicked off this morning with special keynote guests and more than 3,000 registered attendees. The keynotes are streaming live on Cloud Connect’s online tv : http://tv.cloudconnectevent.com/. The Cloud Connect conference is designed to inform cloud customers and operators about the latest cloud computing innovations and to showcase the latest cloud technologies and platforms…