On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:00AM (PST) please join KDDI and Joyent in a presentation that sets the context for modern-day cloud computing. IT services have come a long way since the 1990s. Enterprises started with a gradual shift from in-house to off-shore to eventually out-sourced development. The emergence of cloud computing transcends technology… Read more ›
April, 2011
Joyent Webinar: Cloud as a Business™ — A Context for Cloud Computing
Friday, April 29th, 2011SearchTelecom.com: ACG Research names top seven cloud service providers
Thursday, April 28th, 2011April 28, 2011 — A multitude of acquisitions have taken place at every level of the cloud computing ecosystem recently, including cloud service providers, hardware and software vendors, and systems integrators. And in some cases, these moves have influenced which companies made the ACG Research top cloud service providers list. Consider the following moves by major companies… Read more ›
The New York Times: Telecoms Look to Cloud Computing
Thursday, April 28th, 2011April 28, 2011 — In the battle for enterprise customers, the country’s giant telecommunications and cable companies are going to the cloud. On Wednesday, CenturyLink, the nation’s third-largest telecommunications company, announced plans to buy Savvis, a data center services business, for $2.5 billion. Under the deal, CenturyLink will assume $700 million in debt and pay… Read more ›
Techie Insider: Amazon Recovers From Cloud Problems
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011April 26, 2011 — The worst of the Amazon cloud outage that conked out some major websites for long stretches of time is finally over with a few straggling data issues out there that are still missing, but according to many experts the damage has already been done, leaving other cloud computing providers practically staring opportunity… Read more ›
The Register: Mozilla slips SpiderMonkey into Dev Platform of the Future
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011April 20, 2011 — Mozilla is building its own version of Node.js – the increasingly popular open source platform for coding server-side applications with JavaScript – moving Node from Google’s V8 JavaScript engine to its own SpiderMonkey engine. “We think V8 is great and the fact that Node has become so widely used is a… Read more ›