On October 29th we received an email from Continuent, a company that we have been following for several years for its brilliant and very useful relational database clustering solutions, acquired by VMware. VMware, in our opinion, succeeds with this acquisition to gain a great competitive advantage that is very important to recover the market against […]
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 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 […]
For a year and a half, we have been reflecting on the increasingly pressing need to combine the world of cloud computing with its public IaaS and PaaS infrastructures and the world of mobile apps. Uniting in the sense that the world of apps is increasingly going beyond the limits imposed by the device to […]
In all honesty, I will never understand this tendency to buy everything, often competing products and solutions. I’ve never appreciated Oracle because I think it’s a dispersive company, I imagine the poor salespeople and technicians who don’t know what to offer to the customer, what combination of their products. But I just can’t imagine at […]
VMware, the undisputed leader of virtualization that in 2008 cut out the founders, Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, to forcefully penetrate the cloud computing market (also thanks to the vision of Paul Maritz), these days is creating interesting movements on the network. 1. It seems that VMware, which we remember is the independent daughter of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]