Banking Sector Gets More Comfortable With Cloud
The cloud naysayers get their highs by claiming that banking sector will never embrace cloud. But, to their dismay, banking sector was much more open to the idea of cloud computing than many expected. This trend is only continuing to improve as more and more financial institutions invest in cloud infrastructure. Even though I cannot [...]
OSCON Week: Eucalyptus Systems
I was at OSCON 2011 for two days. Like last year, OpenStack was garnering the media attention this year too. I thought I should check out the other open source cloud platform (open core, to be precise), Eucalyptus Systems, and see how they are doing. I spoke with Brady Murray, Director of Alliances at Eucalyptus [...]
Skytap Talks Hybrid To Go Deep Into The Enterprise Market
Skytap (see previous CloudAve coverage), Seattle based company focussed on cloud automation, today announced a move towards Hybrid clouds, clearly aiming to take advantage of the enterprise interest in hybrid clouds. They announced a set of security and usability features which will allow enterprise customers to create and deploy hybrid clouds very fast. As more [...]
HP Joins The Hybrid Cloud Race
HP, who was a reluctant player in the cloud game for a long time, today announced some products and services aimed at enterprises who are looking forward to move to hybrid clouds this year. They are trying to position themselves as a cloud provider who can keep enterprises secure. Leaving aside all the marketing talk [...]
Perform The Hybrid Cloud Dance Easily With newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus
Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. The marketing folks on the public cloud side wants you to believe that it [...]
