Virtustream Adds More Funding With A Goal Towards Federation
Virtustream, a cloud provider targeting enterprise and government customers, today announced Series B $15 Million funding taking the total venture capital investment to $75 Million. This round of funding is lead by Intel Capital along with Columbia Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners and TDF with the addition of a new investor, QuestMark Capital. The additional funding round [...]
Equinix Announces Marketplace: Will It Help Federated Cloud Ecosystems?
Equnix, global leader in the datacenter space with more than 90 data centers all over the world, today announced a global marketplace for their Platform Equinix customers. Platform Equinix is their data center platform tapping into their vast array of data centers from many different geographical locations targeting everyone from SMBs to enterprises. Platform Equinix is [...]
ComputeNext: Google For Compute Resources
I recently had a conversation with a stealth cloud startup called ComputeNext which got me fired up because they are doing something that I have been advocating here in this space, emergence of an open federated cloud ecosystem. Well, they are not building a federated ecosystem per se but they have gone one step further [...]
Being Fair and Balanced is Not Easy When You Get Quoted Out of Context
Getting quoted in respected publications is an honor. Except – your quote may end up sounding quite different from the intent. Such is the case of the MIT Technology Review, which makes it sound like @krishnan is dumping on recently launched SpotCloud. Not exactly. You read it here @CloudAve first: SpotCloud Launches Today: What Kind [...]
Managing Churn
On Sunday, February 13th, Enomaly Founder, CTO & Cloud Dude, Reuven Cohen, posted a link via his twitter account to a Telecomasia.net article in which the author (Camille Mendler) instructed the intended audience to “Stop aping Amazon, start boasting” – a reference to the fact that, if you are one of the big Telcos, you should really be trying to find a differentiator other [...]
SpotCloud Launches Today: What Kind Of An Impact Will It Have?
SpotCloud, a compute resources clearing house run by IaaS software provider Enomaly, today announced its public launch. So far SpotCloud was available in private beta with only a select few allowed to test it while Enomaly was busy fine tuning the platform for the public launch. With the public availability of SpotCloud, anyone with excess [...]
Can SpotCloud Gain Traction?
Enomaly Inc., the private cloud player based in Canada, today announced a new clearinghouse cum marketplace for trading excess cloud capacity. It is called SpotCloud and the idea is to create a central platform from where excess cloud capacity can be sold and bought based on location, cost and quality. SpotCloud acts as an intermediary [...]
Debunking A Myth: Are Private Clouds Exclusively Single Tenant?
In my post about the Public Vs Private Cloud debate, I pointed out to how the promoters of “only public clouds” idea use the financial component as a requirement in the very definition of cloud computing. In their quest to drive home their point about the economics behind the public clouds, these pundits, either knowingly or unknowingly, promote a [...]
