A Move To Cloud Helps Data Center Providers Maximize Profits
Industry observers have been wondering about the impact of cloud computing on the traditional datacenter providers. There is always the question lingering about the hit datacenter providers will take as they move from the traditional managed hosting world to cloud based world. Conventional Wisdom tells us that premium enterprise hosting is always a safer bet [...]
CloudSwitch Releases New Version With Enhanced Enterprise Features
CloudSwitch, Burlington based company founded in 2008 to make life easy for enterprises to extend their datacenter to the cloud, today announced the release of version 2 of their software with enhanced enterprise features. This release quickly follows version 1 of their software released about 6 months ago. With CloudSwitch, enterprises can easily run their [...]
Intel Pushes Open Data Center Alliance
Intel is cheerleading a new alliance of 70 IT customers (with a net spending of $ 50 Billion), vendors and others to develop a vendor agnostic usage roadmap. The new body is called Open Data Center Alliance aims to define how datacenters of the future are to be built. Whether this will define the future [...]
Looking East Again: More Hotness On The Singapore Front
Regular readers of my post know about my strong belief that the future of Cloud Computing is an ecosystem of open federated clouds. The world is very diverse and “decentralized” and the most important invention after wheel, the internet, is also decentralized and open. So, in my opinion, the technology that is developed on top [...]
Small Business Hosting: The Old Way And The Cloud Way
Recently, one of our clients faced an issue on their server which they were hosting with a well known managed provider (traditional dedicated hosting approach). Let us compare the consequences of their problem in both the old fashioned approach of having a dedicated server at a collocation center or a managed hosting provider and in [...]
A Video Tour Of Google's Container Datacenter
If you ever wonder where your Gmail messages are stored, it is stored in one of the datacenters like the one showed in the video tour below. As a Cloud user, we always want to know where our data is stored. This video is for curious Joes and Janes amongst us.
AppZero – Even Your Grandma Can Run Enterprise IT
On the second day of Demo 09, one of the products that caught my attention was AppZero. In my early days at Cloud Avenue, I wrote a post arguing that it is important to prevent vendor lock-in to ensure the success of Cloud Computing. In that post, Phil Clarke from CohesiveFT pointed out that such lock-ins can [...]
AMD Drives Datacenters To Go Further Green
Image via CrunchBase With the increased adaption of Cloud Computing in both consumer and enterprise segments, the datacenter needs are increasing drastically. This, in turn, is driving up the electricity consumed by datacenters dramatically. The datacenters in the US alone consumed 61 Billion kWh of electricity in 2006. This is roughly 1.5% of all the electricity [...]
