Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing News’ Category

North Bridge Venture Partners and the 38 leading cloud organizations today announced the launch of its 2nd annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey. The survey will capture current perceptions, sentiments and future expectations of cloud computing from ... Full story

Amazon and Salesforce are odds-on to join the UK government's G-Cloud and start serving civil servants with hosted computing, storage and ERP from May, reports the The Register. The companies have been in talks to join G-Cloud, with government officials driving the programme having to reassure the firms' legal people on their obligations under the G-Cloud's terms and conditions. The duo had passed ... Full story

Rackspace the biggest competitor to Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) in the market for Web-based data centers, reached a record high after sales and profit topped analysts’ estimates. Rackspace shares climbed 8.9 percent to $53.60 at 9:32 a.m. in New York. Earlier it touched $54.09 for the highest intraday price since Aug. 8, 2008, when the company first traded publicly. The company runs a fleet of data ... Full story

ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed hosting for enterprises worldwide, today announced the pricing methodology behind Jelastic, its soon-to-be-released, cloud-based Java development platform. Jelastic is unique in that it is the first true pay-as-you-go, platform-as-a-service Java development environment that requires no ... Full story

Microsoft will host the 2011 Global Mobile and Cloud Conference on Saturday, giving IT professionals insight into what's next for the Chinese market. Representatives from Northwest-based companies such as Amazon, T-Mobile, HTC, Boeing, Microsoft and Airbiquity will be presenting. The event is co-organized by Chinese Microsoft Employee Network (CHIME) and North America China Council (NACC), and supported by Microsoft and the ... Full story

Few organizations have moved to cloud computing -- the delivery of computing as a service from remote centers -- and of those that have, many are disappointed with the results, a survey published found. Fewer than one in five organizations questioned have outsourced the hosting of their applications to cloud computing providers, with two-thirds in early discussions, in trials or not ... Full story

CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Backup version 2.3 -- an application that allows users to backup their data online to their cloud storage accounts such as Amazon S3, Windows Azure and Google Storage.Disaster recovery planning is often times an afterthought that comes to light when disaster strikes. Very seldom do companies fully recover from loss of critical data which could lead to loss of business. ... Full story

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced Red Hat CloudForms, a product for creating and managing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private and hybrid clouds. CloudForms redefines the IaaS cloud market by incorporating both comprehensive application lifecycle management and the ability to create integrated clouds from a broad range of computing resources with unique portability across physical, virtual and cloud computing resources. ... Full story

ServerPronto, the world's most reliable discount dedicated server provider, has introduced new dedicated server pricing programs -- and special limited time offers -- to reflect the company's commitment to being the industry's low-cost leader. First, ServerPronto is offering free set up on all its dedicated servers. The company is also offering a new seven-day money back guarantee on its discount dedicated ... Full story

VMware hosting company StratoGen today announced the launch of its eagerly awaited hybrid cloud solution. Working with VMware, StratoGen are once again first to market with a solution that enables organisations to seamlessly move virtual machines from their own infrastructure into the StratoGen cloud. For the first time organisations can integrate their in-house VMware infrastructure with that of their virtual datacentre hosted in the StratoGen public ... Full story