Posts tagged cloud
Linux Vendor Red Hat Slips into the OpenStack Cloud Community
Feb 1st
February 1, 2012 — A really interesting Monday post by Joe Brockmeier on ReadWriteWeb points out that open source giant Red Hat, while it declined to participate in the community around open source cloud computing platform OpenStack, citing problems with the governance model and, later, reservations about the activity of participants, has been quietly contributing to the project.
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Linux Vendor Red Hat Slips into the OpenStack Cloud Community
Cloud Host Storm On Demand New West Coast Region Goes Live
Feb 1st
February 1, 2012 — Cloud hosting provider Storm On Demand, the cloud hosting division of managed hosting firm Liquid Web announced on Wednesday that it now features two separate regions to offer geographic redundancy. Its existing region, located in Lansing, Michigan, is now joined by the new Phoenix, Arizona region, or US West, to offer customers a backup option and the ability to close easily between regions.
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Cloud Host Storm On Demand New West Coast Region Goes Live
CloudPassage Launches Network Security Solution for Multi-Cloud Environments
Feb 1st
February 1, 2012 — Cloud server security provider CloudPassage announced on Wednesday that it has launched its new automated security solution that provides network access control for servers in public clouds.
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CloudPassage Launches Network Security Solution for Multi-Cloud Environments
Cloud Platform Abiquo Wins Claranet Virtual Data Center
Jan 27th
January 27, 2012 — Cloud services firm Abiquo announced on Tuesday that managed hosting provider Claranet has selected Abiquo’s enterprise cloud to power its recently launched virtual data center service. Claranet launched its virtual data center in November 2011.
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Cloud Platform Abiquo Wins Claranet Virtual Data Center
Technology Wholesaler Ingram Micro UK Offers ThinkGrid Cloud Services to Resellers
Jan 26th
January 26, 2012 — Technology products wholesaler Ingram Micro UK announced on Thursday that it will offer ThinkGrid’s cloud platform and cloud services to its resellers. This comes three months after ThinkGrid announced that venture capital firm Runa Capital made a “significant investment” in its company, but didn’t disclose the specific amount
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Technology Wholesaler Ingram Micro UK Offers ThinkGrid Cloud Services to Resellers
AWS Storage Gateway Connects On-Premise Appliances to the Cloud
Jan 25th
January 25, 2012 — In a long post on the Amazon Web Services blog Wednesday, Amazon launched the AWS Storage Gateway service, a tool for connecting on-premise software appliances with its cloud storage services, making its cloud products more accessible to users currently dealing entirely (or mostly) with on-premise IT.
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AWS Storage Gateway Connects On-Premise Appliances to the Cloud
The Open Group Publishes Standards for SOA and Cloud Computing
Jan 19th
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Open Group , a global organization that work towards achieving business objectives through IT standards, announced this week it has published two new industry standards that let businesses effectively integrate fundamental elements of SOA and Cloud Computing into a solution or enterprise architecture. The new standards are SOA Reference Architecture, which acts as a blueprint for creating and evaluating SOA Solutions, and the Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure Framework, which outlines the concepts and elements necessary for infrastructures to support SOA and Cloud initiatives.
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The Open Group Publishes Standards for SOA and Cloud Computing
Cloud Security Firm Gazzang Joins AWS Service Provider Program
Jan 5th
January 5, 2012 — Cloud security provider Gazzang has joined Amazon Web Services service provider partner program, according to an announcement made by the company on Thursday. This announcement comes less than a month after Gazzang named Dustin Kirkland its chief architect.
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Cloud Security Firm Gazzang Joins AWS Service Provider Program
Logicalis Public Cloud Hosting Gets the VMware vCloud Cloud Powered Stamp
Jan 4th
January 4, 2012 — Cloud hosting provider Logicalis announced this week that its Logicalis Enterprise Cloud public cloud service has been awarded VMware vCloud Powered verified status, which illustrates for customers that the company’s cloud services are built on VMWare’s vSphere and vCloud Director technology.
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Logicalis Public Cloud Hosting Gets the VMware vCloud Cloud Powered Stamp