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What role does open source play in cloud computing innovation?
How can open-source cloud management tools like Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenStack and OpenNebula (the European open-source cloud effort of which I am director) impact the adoption of cloud technology? I see it happening in a few broad ways.
Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest knocked out by storm-related power outage at Amazon | Digital Trends
web services cloud” src=”http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2012/06/amazon-web-services-cloud/2743191314.png” alt=”amazon web services cloud” width=”625″ height=”376″ />It seems the clouds are causing problems with the Cloud tonight. A slew of sites, including Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest, have gone down this evening, thanks to “power issues” at Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud data center in North Virginia. The websites rely on Amazon’s cloud services to power their services.
Today at its I/O event, Google announced Compute Engine, a Infrastructure as a Service product to complement its Platform as a Service App Engine offering. You can read details of the product here.
Compute Engine v. Azure: Is Google’s offering really 50% cheaper?
Autodesk took to the wires this morning to announce its acquisition of a long-standing partner, Vela Systems, which is described in the announcement as “a provider of cloud and mobile field management software for the construction industry.”
Autodesk Acquires Vela Systems, Aims To Bring Construction Management Systems To Tablets
IBM Aims to Ease IT With Cloud-Friendly PureSystems | Cloudline
In a big move today, Big Blue announced “a new, simpler era of computing” with PureSystems, what it calls “expert integrated systems” of enterprise IT elements physical and virtual. “The new systems family offers clients an alternative to today’s enterprise computing model, where multiple and disparate systems require significant resources to set up and maintain,” IBM said in a release. Citing a recent study, IBM said two-thirds of corporate IT projects are delivered over budget and behind schedule. ”The prime challenge facing companies worldwide is the need to spend 70 percent or more of IT budgets on simple operations and maintenance, leaving little to invest in innovation,” IBM said.
Today, Microsoft is launching the first startup accelerator* in the company’s history in an effort to encourage more entrepreneurs to build their cloud-based applications using Windows Azure.
To Boost Windows Azure, Microsoft Launches Company’s First-Ever Direct Startup Accelerator
Move to the cloud? The two decisions that matter
Recently, I wrote about how the software company I work for, Precise, cut 70 percent of its IT budget by migrating its applications and infrastructure to cloud and SaaS technologies.
It’s become increasingly clear that users who lost files due to the US government’s seizure of Megaupload will, most likely, never get their files back. First of all, Megaupload’s hosting company, Carpathia Hosting, will allegedly begin deleting files on Thursday due to non-payment by Megaupload.
Upload at your own risk: Most cloud storage services offer no data guarantee
We have long been advocates of moving business operations into the cloud .