Lately, there has been a very strong movement and growth of the PaaS (Platform as a Services) ecosystem. Within a couple of months, AWS expanded its roots in the PaaS world by powerfully invading the world of Windows Azure. AWS BeanStalk, a PaaS service born for quite some time now, initially only for the Java […]
In 2010 we were confronted with the Eucalyptus team’s choice of new CEO Marten Mickos and Dell and Canonical’s support for the Eucalyptus project. Now let’s take a cue from the CEO’s end-of-year greeting on the company’s blog, to report on the great successes that were predictable given Marten’s depth and experience Marten says 2011 […]
OnLive, pioneers of Cloud Gaming, demonstrate remarkable entrepreneurship and innovation. They were born around March 2009 with the idea of revolutionizing the market of high-level Video Games, those for local installation on PC, those for PlayStation, XBox, etc. An alternative to online gaming, that of multi-user role-playing games. It differs greatly in that it exploits […]
IBM announced yesterday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Platform Computing, a privately held company based in Toronto, Canada. Platform Computing is a global leader in cluster and grid management software for distributed computing environments. The acquisition is expected to take place in the fourth quarter of 2011. Financial terms were […]
It is worth mentioning the storage virtualization solutions that Compellent, a US company based in Minnesota that works in the field of storage solutions of considerable thickness, has arrived. Acquired by Dell for $960 million in December 2010. We would like to point out: Live Volume It’s like a storage hypervisor, a volume mapped from […]
On October 4, 2011, Red Hat announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Gluster, an open source storage cluster software system headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and developed in Bangalore, India. Gluster technology provides capabilities that make it a good fit for Red Hat’s cloud computing strategy. Red Hat is actively engaged in […]
I would like to write this report on the world situation of Cloud Storage services, in light of Apple’s beta release with iCloud. First of all, let’s say what Cloud Storage is. It is an online service, through the internet, of a data storage system, which translates into our personal computers or mobile devices, in […]
By completing the acquisition of Cloud.com and its CloudStack platform, Citrix reaffirmed its commitment to open source that was demonstrated by its support of the OpenStack infrastructure developed by Rackspace. Citrix has also made it clear that it wants to work on CloudStack technology to deliver the cloud at scale, such as those built by […]
Avanade delights us with a nice animated infographic, the one we see below is the static version: From his research it turns out that among the Top Applications already present in the Cloud, we find: