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Amazon Feels Pressure And Beefs Up Their Support Services

Amazon Feels Pressure And Beefs Up Their Support Services

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 6, 2011

Even though Amazon has a large lead over other public cloud providers, they still have to sweat out as they target the enterprise customers. Recently, Opsource and Rackspace, two other public cloud providers targeting the same customers started offering managed cloud services with the same cloud like pricing. Already, Rackspace has established their mark in […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, briefs, Managed cloud services, OpSource, premier support, rackspace, support

Does Every Company Need a Robert Scoble? (infographic)

Does Every Company Need a Robert Scoble? (infographic)

By Mark Fidelman on January 5, 2011

What I learned in 2010 can be summed up in one individual Except for reading the occasional year end articles (notables include Kotadia, Maggie Fox, McAfee) I typically skip the tradition of trying to summarize an entire year in 10 bullet points. The Enterprise 2.0/Social Business space is just too dynamic with many starts, stops […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged building 43, corporate evangelist, evangelism, facebook, Featured, flickr, hutch carpenter, Infographics, Klout, Miscellany, Quora, rackspace, ray wang, Robert Scoble, scobleizer, twitter | 6 Responses

A Move To Cloud Helps Data Center Providers Maximize Profits

A Move To Cloud Helps Data Center Providers Maximize Profits

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 4, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cloud computing, datacenterknowledge.com, datacenters, managed hosting, rackspace, utilization rates

Looking Back 2010: Key Cloud Acquisitions

Looking Back 2010: Key Cloud Acquisitions

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 31, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2010, 3tera, acquisitions, boomi, CA, cast iron systems, cloud, cloud acquisitions, cloudkick, dell, heroku, IBM, lookingback2010, makara, nimsoft, rackspace, redhat, salesforce, salesforce.com

Top 10 Cloud Predictions by…

Top 10 Cloud Predictions by…

By Adron Hall on December 27, 2010

Time for a lunch time blog entry… Information Management recently put together some cloud predictions for the cloud industry.  Here’s my 2 cents for the key points I picked out. You will build a private cloud, and it will fail.  Thank goodness.  Get rid of the whole premise, it’s kind of stupid.  The basis of […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, azure, big data, Business Intelligence, cloud, cloud computing, microsoft, rackspace, windows azure | 1 Response

Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick Getting Ready For A Federated Clouds Future

Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick Getting Ready For A Federated Clouds Future

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 16, 2010

Rackspace, a leading player in the traditional hosting world with some level of difficulty gaining traction in the cloud based world, today announced the acquisition of Cloudkick, one of the cloud management vendors with a pretty dashboard having HTML 5 based 3D server visualization. Rackspace is mum on the details of valuation. Interestingly, this is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloudkick, m&a, Managed cloud services, managed services, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud | 2 Responses

In a world of niche Clouds, how do you define a useful niche?

In a world of niche Clouds, how do you define a useful niche?

By Paul Miller on December 15, 2010

There are a couple of interesting posts on the blog of the UK’s FLESSR project, detailing their efforts to work out how feasible it might be to offer a new Cloud service to universities. More on that in a moment. I don’t think I’ve ever really been convinced by the argument that everything will end […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Andy Powell, cloud computing, data center, Eduserv, Enterprise Computing, FleSSR, iaas, JISC, Joint Information Systems Committee, rackspace, vmware

The Rise Of Managed Cloud Services

The Rise Of Managed Cloud Services

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 14, 2010

Looks like it is time to take “self service” out of cloud definition. There is a new trend that is slowly gaining traction which, even though it is not cloud washing, appears to be a desperate repackaging of services by companies with deep roots in the managed hosting world. I still feel that the availability […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, cloud management, datapipe, Managed cloud services, managed services, OpSource, public clouds, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud | 5 Responses

OpenStack Released Today

OpenStack Released Today

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 21, 2010

OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud computing stack supported by Rackspace, NASA and many other companies, unwrapped their first version, codenamed Austin release, today. This marks a crucial milestone of a project that has the potential to change the cloud computing market upside down. Ever since they announced the project during OSCON […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, federated clouds, iaas, Infrastructure services, NASA, open clouds, open federated clouds, open source, openstack, openstack.org, rackspace | 1 Response

Yawn, Joyent Announces Windows And Linux Virtual Machines On Cloud

Yawn, Joyent Announces Windows And Linux Virtual Machines On Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 20, 2010

Joyent (See previous CloudAve coverage), the San Francisco based infrastructure cloud service provider, today announced the availability of Windows and Linux virtual machines in their cloud. They are targeting the enterprise customers who want to move their existing apps to VMs on the cloud. The new Windows and Linux solutions are available at all of […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud hosting, gogrid, iaas, Joyent, linux, rackspace, windows | 1 Response

Appmatcher.com: eHarmony For SaaS Apps

Appmatcher.com: eHarmony For SaaS Apps

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 8, 2010

Yesterday, Rackspace launched Appmatcher.com, a match making service which will help businesses find suitable apps for their needs. Imagine it to be something like Match.com but catering to the business users helping them find the right set of SaaS applications for their organization from accounting to project management to HR. This is a pretty interesting service […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged app store, Appmatcher, Appmatcher.com, discovery, marketplace, rackspace, saas | 3 Responses

Amazon Micro Instances - Rackspace Has Competition On The Lower End

Amazon Micro Instances – Rackspace Has Competition On The Lower End

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 9, 2010

For a long time Amazon Web Services didn’t bother to focus on the light users. From the beginning, Rackspace offered plans catering to the low end VPS crowd with Linux Cloud Servers with 256 MB RAM available for 1.5 cents a hour (with an estimated monthly cost not including bandwidth consumption at $10.95). It was […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, cloud computing, ec2, iaas, Micro instances, price reduction, rackspace | 3 Responses

Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?

Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 30, 2010

Last week, Clouderati Twitter stream was full of back and forth arguments on possible dumping of Amazon API by Openstack. It all started with a recent Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group meetup on Openstack. One of the takeaways from the meeting is that Openstack is dumping the API compatibility mode. Nebula, the cloud computing project […]

Posted in Open Source | Tagged analysis, api, aws, cloud computing, open source, openstack, openstack.org, rackspace, scaleup technologies

Openstack iPad App Is Coming To A Store Near You

Openstack iPad App Is Coming To A Store Near You

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 26, 2010

After Openstack was launched with much fanfare during OSCON, there has been a flurry of activity on the development community with thousands of contribution from hundreds of developers. Even though the main contribution is towards compute and storage, there are many smaller projects underway in the Openstack ecosystem. One such project is the iPad app […]

Posted in Open Source | Tagged chef, cloud computing, ipad, open source, openstack, opscode, rackspace

Rackspace Offers Windows Cloud Servers

Rackspace Offers Windows Cloud Servers

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 10, 2010

Today, Rackspace announced the release of Windows based Cloud Servers to compete with Amazon EC2 Windows instances and Windows Azure. According to Rackspace, the new service delivers a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications and supporting the high levels of traffic required for launching online gaming platforms or the next […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged analysis, aws, azure, cloud computing, cloud servers, ec2, iaas, microsoft, rackspace, windows | 1 Response

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