Cloud Computing News Desk brings the latest industry news related to the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered as a service using Internet technologies. For up to date news on the International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, the easiest way is to 
Broaching the hugely valuable enterprise market can be very intimidating for young startups. Large enterprises can be reluctant to work with smaller companies due to concerns about scalability and support. Sun Microsystems realized there is an opportunity here – Sun can supply a unique...Jun. 16, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,668
Cloud Computing will have major impact on the way in which IT is delivered from the data center to its many clients. For CIOs, this can be perceived as a threat to the way in which they manage data center capabilities. In reality, cloud computing offers a huge opportunity for the CIO w...
Speaking at a JP Morgan event in Boston on Wednesday, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said that Microsoft's approach to cloud computing "is in the five areas where we have significant advantage in this transition relative to other competitors." 
SoftLayer Technologies has added several new features to its recently launched CloudLayer line of cloud services. Key among these is hourly billing for CloudLayer Computing instances. Outbound bandwidth usage will be charged at $0.10 per GB. As with all SoftLayer computing services, in...
HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. have announced that three new research organizations will join Open Cirrus, a global, multiple data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci recently named "The Next Big Things in IT" as the Virtual Data Center, Cloud Computing, Virtual Clients and Virtual Applications.
“I look forward to offering my experience as a member of the RightScale board to help the company maintain and expand its leadership in a rapidly growing market,” said Mårten Mickos, former CEO of MySQL, as it was announced today that he was joined RightScale's board of directors. Mic...
3PAR has announced that this month marks the company's 10th anniversary. After beginning operations in May of 1999, the company went on to commercially launch its highly virtualized 3PAR Utility Storage platform and proprietary 3PAR Thin Provisioning software in 2002. These innovations...
View Joshua Corman, principal security strategist in IBM's Internet Security Systems division, in discussion with Cloud Computing Expo chairman Jeremy Geelan, on SYS-CON.TV - recorded live at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo held in New York City, March 2009. 
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo Europe 2009, held in Prague, Czech Republic, finished on May 19th, since when many blogs and articles have been appearing analyzing the many sessions and discussions that featured at the event. A very interesting angle was raised in a post-conference blog...
"We’re at the beginning of a paradigm shift in IT that’s going to be as dramatic as the introduction of the PC in the early 80s. I for one, am very excited to be involved." That, according to the Founder & CTO of The Server Labs, was his primary takeaway on getting back to the UK after...
DataMotion has announced the general availability of its enhanced Intelligent Information Transport (IIT) platform, allowing organizations to bring the benefits of cloud-based secure messaging and data governance services to their users and applications. The IIT platform empowers enter...
Citrix Systems has announced the addition of three new appliance models to its Citrix NetScaler MPX product line. The new NetScaler MPX 9500 and MPX 7500 appliances offer price-performance enhancements for mid-to-large enterprises, while the new MPX 5500 brings the advanced, high-perfo...
Clearpace, the data archive store specialist, is launching a cloud-based archive service for structured data - RainStor. RainStor allows users to instantly retire legacy applications and archive structured data to the cloud while keeping data secure and instantly accessible. Using Rain...
David Hanacek, a VCP who joined VMware in May 2005 as Sr. Systems Engineer covering Eastern Europe and recently took on a new role as Product Marketing Manager, EMEA, presented a General Session at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe (www.cloudexpo-europe.com) on Monday May 18...
Fujitsu and salesforce.com have announced that they have signed a sales and marketing agreement whereby Fujitsu will provide Salesforce CRM[1] cloud applications as well as application development and integration services on salesforce.com's Force.com platform. The partnership is desig...
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., has announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): Amazon CloudWatch, a web service for monitoring AWS cloud resources, Auto Scaling for automatically growing and shrinking Am...
From tomorrow Cloud Computing and Virtualization are going to be center stage, 18-19 May, at the Prague Hilton as the Czech Republic plays host to Cloud Computing Expo Europe 2009, co-located with Virtualization Conference Europe 2009 - the first conference outside the USA in SYS-CON's...
Cloud Computing is empowering users like never before, giving them access to massive amounts of compute power and storage capacity, on-demand and in real time.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Sam Johnston, of Australian Online Solutions, will be presenting at next week's Cloud Computing Expo Europe (www.cloudexpo-europe.com) May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Computing event outside ...
If you’re tiring of the vanilla look and feel of Google and Zoho applications, take a look at the new eazybusiness offering. The applications include email, document management, time and attendance, web meeting, invoicing, inventory management and sales force management. eazybusiness a...
In the brave new world of cloud computing, what is the secret to building great companies? That is the question that will be answered by technology visionary Roman Stanek in his Opening Keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo Europe next week in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic....
SoftLayer Technologies has launched CloudLayer Computing, part of its new CloudLayer line of services. CloudLayer Computing is built on the Citrix XenServer virtualization platform from Citrix Systems, Inc., and brings enterprises massive scalability and unique opportunities for their ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Stephen Foskett, Consulting Director at Nirvanix, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe (www.cloudexpo-europe.com) May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Computing event out...
Organizations today must consider many factors when choosing among cloud offerings from vendors such as Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com, but being able to port applications and avoid getting "locked in" to one cloud platform is critical, and must be a primary concern for anyone plann...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Jim Reavis, Executive Director for Cloud Security Alliance, will be presenting at next week's Cloud Computing Expo Europe (www.cloudexpo-europe.com) May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Computing ...
Dr. Guy Bunker, Distinguished Engineer for Symantec UK, will be presenting at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo Europe 2009 (www.cloudexpo-europe.com) in Prague, The Czech Republic, this coming May 18-19, 2009. In this session, Bunker will talk to some of the darker sides to cloud comput...
3PAR has announced that Netia SA has consolidated their legacy storage infrastructure onto 3PAR Utility Storage to cut costs, eliminate performance bottlenecks, increase availability, speed provisioning of new services, and reduce administration time. With 3PAR, Netia's datacenter supp...
"We've heard that many customers wanted more information about how, when, where and to whom their content is being delivered, so we're happy to make this feature available starting today." With that brief announcement, the team behind Amazon CloudFront - the low-cost content delivery s...
Hubspan and IBM have announced WebSpan, a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration platform. WebSpan combines the Hubspan on–demand integration platform and IBM WebSphere integration software into a single platform that can help businesses reduce the cost, time and complexity assoc...
SoftLayer Technologies has launched CloudLayer, a new line of cloud services that brings individuals and enterprises options for dynamically scaling their IT resources, maximizing data accessibility, and optimizing their total cost of IT. Today’s launch introduces CloudLayer Storage an...
Skytap has announced immediate availability of new cost control and charge-back capabilities to enable tighter management and control over cloud resources. By providing quota thresholds and auditing capabilities, Skytap enables companies to deploy their cloud initiatives while ensurin...
Blue Coat Systems has announced that NetDialog has joined the Blue Coat Technology Integration Partner Program to offer a combined solution that provides enterprises with visibility into the applications running on the network along with the tools to set and manage performance goals. B...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Raimund Genes, CTO of Anti-Malware at Trend Micro, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe, May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Computing event outside the USA. His session...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Pau Garcia-Mila, founder of eyeOS, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe, May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Computing event outside the USA. His session is entitled “Op...
