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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eucalyptus Targets Asia
Image via CrunchBase Eucalyptus Systems (see previous CloudAve coverage), the academic project turned commercial vendors that helps enterprises build private clouds, is now focussing on the Asian markets. In 2010, Eucalyptus focussed on releasing their new version and strengthening their partnerships with companies like Redhat, rPath and newScale. They are turning their attention in 2011 […]
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 […]
OpenECP, An Enomaly ECP Fork
Image via CrunchBase I am a strong supporter of Open Source Software and a proponent of the importance of open source in cloud computing. It is my strong opinion that open source will empower the customers giving them access to the software even after the company behind the product goes out of business. In this […]
