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,…
Rackspace announced today it is is augmenting its OpenStack open-source cloud computing initiative with a new set of services and support options that will help partners and customers to better leverage the open cloud technology. The new support service is called Cloud Builders, and it is staffed by members of Rackspace’s OpenStack team as well…
Google released yesterday the first API upgrade for Adwords. This new release includes: The ability for agencies to run reports across clients so they can do trend comparison across clients. Better filtering, improved geo-targeting which will let agencies specify whether to target by the physical location of the viewer or by the location the person…
Salesforce.com commissioned a study with WSP Environment & Energy, and found that customers of salesforce.com’s cloud computing services produce 95 percent less carbon, on average, compared with companies using other equivalent software in on-premise application servers. The study also showed that multitenant cloud platforms are on average 64 percent more carbon-efficient than private clouds that…
Zenith Infotech introduced today MirrorCloud, a new lightweight backup and disaster recovery software application for the mid size business market. Using a data cloning process, MirrorCloud takes zero-copy data snapshots of any physical and virtual Windows server or desktop, dramatically increasing Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). Within minutes MirrorCloud can reproduce a virtual image of any…
The Cloudforce event which starts this week on March 3 in New York, is expected to receive more than 4,000 attendees. Cloudforce, salesforce.com’s second biggest event after Dreamforce, is a free one day event with 18 role-based breakout sessions for sales, customer service, developers, and IT. Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff will deliver the keynote focused…
Vidyo launched today an Internet-based videoconferencing architecture that can scale to tens of thousands of users on a variety of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, or laptops. The Cloud Edition of Vidyo offers an easily deployed, low maintenance infrastructure comprised of a network of VidyoRouter appliances to further enhance the Vidyo conference experience, optimize…
Microsoft is promoting a free trial of the Windows Azure platform, valid till June 30, 2011. This promotion includes: – 750 hours of Windows Azure Extra Small Compute instance use, – 25 hours of Small Compute instance, – 500MB of storage, – 10,000 storage transactions per month, – 100,000 access control transactions and two service…
Dell has rolled out at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2011 conference in Orlando, new subscription-based private cloud services for healthcare providers. These cloud services will provide a more streamlined access to patients’ archived information for easier sharing and management of the information between physicians, hospitals and other point of care. These…
What are the technical underlying distinctions between grid and cloud computing? Grid computing has been around for a long time and is sometimes confused with cloud computing because both types of computing work outside the firewall to the local network. They both use other machines either by volunteer network or by renting those from companies…