Cloud Computing and the Return of the Platform Wars

Sun’s announcement last week that its new Cloud Compute Service would be API compatible at a storage level with Amazon’s popular S3 service is probably the first real evidence of the coming platform war in the cloud computing space. It’s a war that’s likely to be significant and protracted given the number of players that [...]

Cloud computing vendors converge on standard definition, goals

But as a major cloud computing conference in New York City made clear this week, analysts and vendors are converging on a standard definition of cloud computing, and agreeing that the cloud approach to technology is gaining traction in the minds of service providers and customers. Read More>>>

Cloud computing mkt to rise 21 pct in 2009 -Gartner

HELSINKI, March 26 (Reuters) – Global revenue from “cloud computing”, the industry’s latest buzzword, could surpass $56 billion in 2009 as customers seek to cut costs and are attracted by systems allowing access to programs via the Web, research firm Gartner said on Thursday. Read More>>>

Walden Case Study: Cloud computing changing data management

Consider: Once Gottfrid had created and stress-tested his PDF-conversion process on a cluster of four servers rented from a service called Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)—run by Amazon.com, a leading player in cloud computing services—a few clicks of his mouse was all it took to instantly harness another 100 machines, and, in less than 24 hours, [...]

Beyond server virtualization: The private cloud

SearchCIO.com recently sat down with virtualization and cloud computing expert Mark Bowker, an analyst at The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. in Milford, Mass., to find out just how real companies’ plans are for developing a private cloud. A private, or internal, cloud is a means of centralizing data center resources and delivering them on the [...]

Sun steps into the cloud-computing fray

Sun has launched the Sun Open Cloud platform, in a bid to gain a place in the growing cloud-computing market and challenge companies such as Amazon. Read More>>>

Cisco’s unified computing cloud starts with a box

The blades are out in Silicon Valley. In the latest bit of data center combat, Cisco has left the genteel confines of data networks to join the ranks of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM in the great data center blade rumble. Read More>>>

Amazon Web Services Introduces “Reserved Instances” – a New Amazon EC2 Pricing Option That Lets Businesses Realize Lower Compute Costs Than Ever Before

“Customers of all sizes enjoy the pay-as-you-go flexibility of Amazon EC2, but many have told us they are ready to reserve capacity in order to achieve even lower costs,” said Peter De Santis, General Manager of Amazon EC2. Read More>>>

10 Questions and Answers about Cloud Computing

CLOUD COMPUTING IS THE CLOSEST WE’VE COME yet to what futurists promised the internet could be. If you use Google Apps, YouTube, Amazon, Salesforce, Flickr, Facebook, Bittorrent, Skype, or any of a myriad of applications that let you access and share information quickly and connect with other people, you’ve already been in the cloud. Below [...]

Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, today introduced a new variation of its EC2 service, Reserved Instances, that comes with a new pricing model. Read More>>>