Tag Archives: Cloud

HP puts OpenStack cloud into public beta

Posted on May 10, 2012 by admin

OpenStack marches on. On Thursday, Hewlett-Packard put its public cloud to public beta. The services had been available to a limited number of customers up till now. OpenStack co-founder Rackspace made its OpenStack cloud generally available May 1, as planned. … Continue reading →

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Appfog takes Amazon to task for cloud lock-in

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

Lucas Carlson, CEO AppFog Positioning his company as David to Amazon’s Goliath, Appfog CEO Lucas Carlson blasted Amazon Web Services for locking developers into a closed ecosystem. “Amazon keeps innovating new services and on the one hand I applaud them … Continue reading →

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Cloud is a corporate strategy, not a tactical solution

Posted on May 6, 2012 by admin

As an IT community we are still stuck in the past relative to the strategic nature of cloud. Many of us are looking at the adoption of cloud as just another technology, and are leaving the decisions on how to … Continue reading →

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Amazon launches Windows and Mac cloud desktop apps

Posted on May 2, 2012 by admin

Amazon has released desktop apps for its cloud file storage service for Windows and Mac platforms, joining other cloud file services that offer the same kind of support. Read more… Neowin

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Cloud migration still poses mine field for IT vendors

Posted on May 2, 2012 by admin

If you think cloud computing confuses tech users,  it has positively flummoxed IT vendors that now must deal with a bewildering array of business models thanks to the proliferation of  SaaS, PaaS and IaaS deployment options. And as cloud deployments … Continue reading →

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