Amazon today announced at AWS re:Invent 2013, the second annual global event held in Las Vegas, Nevada between November 12th and 15th. AWS WorkSpace a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solution that is totally outsourced and with the classic onDemand model. In short, after a lot of “noise” and a lot of marketing by the undisputed […]
We re-publish this interesting infographic found on the net, it would seem created by Visiwa lab. It’s an infographic that manages to group some salient points of the history of Cloud Computing, maybe I would have mentioned them and fixed some mistakes, but the idea is very good. As we always say, the Cloud starts […]
The Solidarity Call Center project is the brainchild of the Cardinal of Naples, Crescenzio Sepe, the president of the non-profit In the Name of Life Foundation , Sergio Sciarelli, full professor of Economics and Business Management at the Federico II University, and other illustrious representatives of Neapolitan civil society. It was created with the contribution […]
We are reading in these last days of the end of the year and the first days of the new year numerous articles about economic forecasts and the development of cloud computing for the new year, again 2013 as for about two years now (in Italy) should be the year of affirmation of Cloud Computing. […]
We have been invited to report a case study of the correct adoption of cloud computing that can be an example for an audience of companies curious to be able to bring cloud computing into their business reality and be able to take advantage of its advantages. The event organized by IDC, a leader in […]
Today Il Mattino published the interview that the very kind Dr. Diletta Capissi did to us a couple of days ago. A beautiful and long interview that touched on the whole story from personal resumes to the birth of the startup VMengine, the difficulties of a too premature vision in a geographical area with very […]
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 […]
The Cloudera distribution that includes Apache Hadoop was found to be 81% faster than Oracle Sun X2270 cluster Fremont, Calif. – October 17, 2011 – SGI, the leader in technical computing, today announced that it has set a new world record on the Terasort Benchmark for processing and analyzing data using Apache Hadoop clusters running […]
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 […]