Cloud.com Scores A Big Win With GoDaddy
GoDaddy, the domain registrar, yesterday unveiled their cloud plans with a goal to eat into the public cloud pie. They are calling their service Data Center On Demand and it is currently in limited release phase. It is generally expected to be available in July. Unlike Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy’s plans requires customers to have […]
Looking Back 2010: Key Cloud Acquisitions
This is the final post in the Looking Back 2010 Series and, also, for the year 2010. After looking at the three key cloud events in this year (thanks to James Urquhart for kicking up the discussion on Twitter), I want to do a post talking about some of the key acquisitions in the cloud […]
The Impact Of CA’s Acquisition Of 3Tera
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday CA Inc., the enterprise IT company formerly known as Computer Associates, announced its intent to acquire the cloud computing provider 3Tera. Even though the details of the deal are not available, there are some unconfirmed reports going around the blogosphere and twitterverse saying it could be 30x the current 3Tera revenue. […]
3Tera App Store Announced
3Tera, the cloud vendor offering a platform that makes it easy to deploy applications, scale up and down and secure the infrastructure, has announced 3Tera App Store, much like Apple’s iPhone App Store, a marketplace for Cloud Computing components directed towards enterprises. My previous coverage of 3Tera’s Applogic platform is here and Paul Miller’s podcast […]
In conversation with 3Tera's Bert Armijo
Continuing my ongoing series of conversations with Cloud Computing’s proponents, yesterday I spoke with 3Tera co-founder Bert Armijo. The result has just been released as a podcast, in which we talk about 3Tera, their ‘five nines’ SLA, and Bert’s perspectives on the rather fluid boundary between enterprise data centres, private compute resources outside the enterprise, […]
3tera Takes Another Step Forward In Enterprise Cloud Computing
At the Parallels Summit this week, 3tera announced the release of the newer version of their product Applogic 2.4. Applogic is their highly scalable grid operating system that runs on commodity servers. We all know that the greatest advantage of Cloud Computing is the drastic reduction in CapEx. But, 3tera claims that it is also […]
