Some telling acquisitions will define 2011. Savvis and Terremark were bought by telcos, which are positioned with assets and operating structures that enable them to potentially do one thing very well: deliver computing as a utility service. We talk with Bob Toohey, the man at Verizon leading the division that will supply cloud services to…

Cloud computing continues to gain more mainstream adoption as more companies move into the cloud. This article focuses on where the cloud space stands in the market and the future driving trends in these five specific areas: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, Cloud Storage and Private/Internal Clouds. Commodity…

Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon Web Services, gave  his annual “state of the cloud” presentation Wednesday morning at the GigaOm Structure 2011 conference in San Francisco. Vogels stated that Amazon’s S3 storage service doubled in volume from the same time last year and now houses 339 billion objects. Although Vogels still sees more potential for…

ScaleXtreme, Inc., a leading cloud-based systems management company, today announced new functionality for VMware vCloud Director and Amazon EC2. The new cloud provisioning and management functionality, offers users the first hybrid-cloud management product that can both provision and manage the lifecycle of machines through the cloud. Using ScaleXtremeTM, customers with VMware® vCloudTM Director-enabled services from cloud-hosting…

The results of a cloud computing survey conducted by North Bridge Venture Partners, in partnership with GigaOM Pro and The 451 Group, were released today at the GigaOM Structure Conference during the Cloud Leadership Panel. CloudTimes is a media sponsor of the GigaOM Structure conference in San Francisco, CA. The survey captured current perceptions, sentiments…

SolidFire, a Boulder-based company that is developing all solid-state data-storage systems for cloud service providers, launched today its worldwide Early Access Program for cloud service providers. CloudTimes reported last week that Dave Wright, Founder and CEO, will be participating in the “Cloud Storage: Moving Beyond Backup” panel at the GigaOM Structure conference June 23 at…

SolidFire announced today that its founder and CEO Dave Wright will be participating in the “Cloud Storage: Moving Beyond Backup” panel at the GigaOM Structure conference June 23 at 9:05 a.m.in San Francisco, CA. SolidFire is a provider of all-solid-state storage systems for cloud service providers. About the panel: CLOUD STORAGE: MOVING BEYOND BACKUP? For…