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Virtustream Adds More Funding With A Goal Towards Federation

Virtustream Adds More Funding With A Goal Towards Federation

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 9, 2012

  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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged enomaly, federated clouds, funding, funding round, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services, insights, spotcloud, virtustream

Equinix Announces Marketplace: Will It Help Federated Cloud Ecosystems?

Equinix Announces Marketplace: Will It Help Federated Cloud Ecosystems?

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 24, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, Computenext, equinix, exchanges, federated cloud ecosystems, federated clouds, federation, insights, marketplace, scaleup, scaleup technologies, spotcloud

ComputeNext: Google For Compute Resources

ComputeNext: Google For Compute Resources

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 2, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Computenext, discovery, federated clouds, insights, marketplace, scaleup technologies, search, search and discovery, spotcloud | 4 Responses

Being Fair and Balanced is Not Easy When You Get Quoted Out of Context

Being Fair and Balanced is Not Easy When You Get Quoted Out of Context

By Zoli Erdos on February 16, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged bad cop, capacity market, clouderati, journalism, mit, MIT Technology Review, spotcloud | 6 Responses

Managing Churn

Managing Churn

By Christian Reilly on February 15, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, butter, capacity market, Capacity utilization, churn, cloud computing, enomaly, European Union, reuven cohen, spotcloud, subsidy, Virtual machine

SpotCloud Launches Today: What Kind Of An Impact Will It Have?

SpotCloud Launches Today: What Kind Of An Impact Will It Have?

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 14, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Clearinghouse, cloud marketplace, enomaly, federated clouds, federation, insights, regional clouds, Spot markets, spotcloud | 2 Responses

Can SpotCloud Gain Traction?

Can SpotCloud Gain Traction?

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 1, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud brokers, cloud clearinghouse, cloud computing, cloud exchange, cloud marketplace, enomaly, reuven cohen, spotcloud, zimory | 3 Responses

Debunking A Myth: Are Private Clouds Exclusively Single Tenant?

Debunking A Myth: Are Private Clouds Exclusively Single Tenant?

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 27, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, infrastructure renting, private clouds, public clouds, public private debate, spotcloud, zimory | 4 Responses

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