September, 2011

GigaOM: 5 ways to protect against vendor lock-in in the cloud

Saturday, September 24th, 2011 by ginger

September 24, 2011 — Two weeks ago, Google announced a significant price increase for use of its App Engine Platform-as-a-Service. The increase itself was not a huge surprise. Google had been making noises that something like this was in the offing for a number of months. But the size of the increase shocked the Web… Read more ›

SearchServerVirtualization.com: Open Virtualization Alliance adds members: News in brief

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 by ginger

September 23, 2011 — Open Virtualization Alliance adds members. The Open Virtualization Alliance said this week that it has added 134 new members since June. The group, which promotes the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), has doubled its membership since it was first launched in June to a total of more than 200 companies.… Read more ›

Joyent goes open source to help service providers take on AWS

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 by ginger

Analyst: Jason Verge, William Fellows Date: 22 Sep 2011 451 Report Folder: File report This report is available to subscribers of The 451 Group’s analysis. Go to original article

FT Tech Hub: MiTAC, Joyent bring public cloud to Taiwan

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 by ginger

September 21, 2011 — MiTAC, Joyent bring public cloud to Taiwan

Joyent and MiTAC Announce MiCloud, Taiwan’s First Public Cloud for End Users and Cloud Solution for Enterprises and Service Providers

Monday, September 19th, 2011 by ginger

San Francisco and Taipei— September 19, 2011 —Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and services, and MiTAC Information Technology Corp. (MiTAC), a worldwide systems integrator, today launched MiCloud, Taiwan’s first true public cloud service and a cloud solution bundle for enterprises and service providers. MiCloud is a fully integrated hardware and software solution… Read more ›