After the Cloud Camp, thanks to the invitation of the NOI Association (Napoli Open Innovation) we participated in two broadcasts of the “Widespread Innovation” recorded at Denaro TV. An article describing the episode was also published in the November 4 issue of Denaro. “We discuss “cloud computing”, i.e. the set of software that uses the […]
For days we have been hearing about Swisscom’s takeover bid for our Fastweb, while a desktop and application virtualization project between Swisscom and Citrix is underway. Maybe soon we will have a serious offer of virtual office in Italy? The project with Citrix currently operates with 25 Citrix XenApps for 25000 concurrent users, provides XP-based […]
We continue with the large acquisitions. This is the turn of EMC on Isilon, a large entity known to most as a storage system vendor, acquires Isilon, which we talked about in 2008, a strong reality in cluster storage systems. The growth in the demand for scalability in storage, not only in the amount of […]
We have recently come up against problems of installation/configuration of virtualization in innovative HW environments for the creation of a virtual mini datacenter. The activity was carried out in collaboration with the Clara Consortium, with which we carried out the design and implementation of the virtual rack / datacenter in four arms. The equipment was […]
3PAR Inc, known to most for its canary yellow storage systems on a black background, has been sailing with a stock on the stock market for at least ten years that has remained stable at $10, but never rose above $15. Now, after the first acquisition proposal by Dell and the very recent proposal by […]
VMengine participated in March in the “Talent of Ideas” competition organized by the UniCredit Group, with the UniCredit Local Committees, and the Young Entrepreneurs of Confindustria, to promote and support the birth and growth of new entrepreneurial realities. Innovative, original and value-generating proposals have been identified on the Italian territory, on which economic resources can […]
Telegraph and Salesforce united for democracy and transparency. Debate2010, a democratic tool provided to citizens to propose ideas, vote on the ideas of others, look at what citizens are thinking, what is a priority for citizens, share ideas on social networks. This is Debate2010, born from a union of forces between the British Telegrah and […]
On February 22-24, Parallels, the largest hosting software vendor, at its annual summit in Miami , presented the first bare-metal hypervisor for Xserve Mac OS X, a solution soon embraced by GoDaddy to launch a new VPS based on Mac OS X. I was wondering in a Hypervisor market where the leadership is VMware (ESX4 […]
EBS : Elastic Block Storage, one of the web services that we believe is fundamental for a self-respecting cloud computing infrastructure, now allows booting. What is EBS: A service capable of creating a storage volume that we can link to an EC2 server instance, is defined as persistent to differentiate it from the storage with […]
Over the past year, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) has moved quickly and effectively to fill the gap it had accumulated in the incredibly growing industry of virtualization, cloud computing, and virtual datacenter, first by unveiling acquisition intentions as in our previous article, then by launching a Unified Computing solution as described in this article, later creating […]