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Red Hat Named “Platinum Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Red Hat, an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC, with over 65 offices spanning the globe. The company provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

Red Hat Makes Step Toward Common Cloud Computing API with DMTF

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:45:00 EDT

Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, on Wednesday announced that it has submitted the API specification for Apache Deltacloud to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) as part of its participation in the DMTF Cloud Management Work Group. Red Hat’s submission to DMTF is a step forward in the company’s effort to offer users of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds the benefits of portability across cloud computing deployments. The Apache Deltacloud project is an open source implementation of a RESTful web service API abstracting common proprietary IaaS cloud management APIs. Started by Red Hat in September 2009, the project was moved to the Apache Incubator earlier this year to underscore its importance for the cloud computing ecosystem, where it is undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation, and to allow it to grow and evolve within a community built on Apache’s well-known values of openness and meritocracy. Innovation in the Deltacloud project has been instrumental in the progress of Red Hat Cloud Foundations, announced in June 2010.

Red Hat Outlines Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Computing Strategy

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:30:00 EDT

Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, on Wednesday announced its vision for a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution as part of its Cloud Foundations, a portfolio that will promote consistency between enterprise applications and the cloud. Red Hat is the only vendor that has the infrastructure capable of delivering an open source, flexible cloud stack, incorporating operating system, middleware and virtualization. Based on JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat PaaS is designed to be the solution within the portfolio that will allow enterprises, cloud service providers, ISVs and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to take existing assets and develop new applications and deploy them to a wide range of public and private clouds.

Red Hat Cloud Computing Foundations Centers on Interoperability

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:15:00 EDT

Red Hat Inc, a provider of open source solutions, on Wednesday announced developments in its Cloud Foundations portfolio that promotes consistency between enterprise applications and the cloud. Red Hat is the only vendor that has the infrastructure capable of delivering an open source, flexible cloud stack, incorporating operating system, middleware and virtualization. Furthermore, this stack is designed to run consistently across physical servers, virtual platforms, private clouds and public clouds. Red Hat's comprehensive solution set enables interoperability and portability, recognizing that customers have IT architectures composed of many different hardware and software components from various vendors. Cloud Foundations is offering capabilities that allow customers to use multiple clouds effectively. “In our extensive research, we've found that open APIs and interoperability are essential to customers considering the cloud,” said Gary Chen, research manager, Enterprise Virtualization Software at IDC. “Our research shows that 80 percent of enterprises cite the lack of interoperability standards as a challenge in adopting cloud computing services. With Cloud Foundations, Red Hat is on the right track with cloud by accelerating interoperability and portability to prevent cloud lock in."

Red Hat to VMware: So Who’s Cisco’s Pet Now

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:00:00 EDT

Red Hat is seeking to drive a wedge between Cisco and its ally VMware. It has supported Cisco’s server effort since the first UCS boxes started shipping last summer and Cisco wants to be the king of virtualization. So now Red Hat has integrated Cisco’s Virtual Network Link (VN-Link) technology with its kernel-based KVM virtualization. VN-Link is UCS’ way of keeping tabs on the network traffic in and out of virtual machines. It automates the movement of network and storage services so they can follow virtual machines as they move around the datacenter, helping to ensure consistent policy-driven network capabilities across all servers, physical or virtual, in a data center.

Red Hat Compares Itself to Microsoft

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:15:00 EDT

Red Hat rolled out something called Cloud Foundations the other day, claiming it put Red Hat in the same league as Microsoft, the only other company with a comprehensive cloud solution. Of course, Microsoft Azure isn’t open like Red Hat and God forbid Microsoft can’t deliver what’s needed down the road and you’re stuck, locked in. Cloud Foundations, which is supposed to make “cloud computing consumable for the enterprise,” is a bunch of solutions for planning, building and managing Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service private and public clouds: products, implementation cookbooks and reference architectures, professional services and training.

Red Hat’s Server & Desktop Virtualization Move in Together

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:15:00 EDT

Red Hat’s desktop virtualization has joined its server virtualization in the 2.2 rev of its standalone KVM hypervisor Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV). Like 2.1 seven months ago, 2.2 can host and manage both Red Hat Linux and Windows VMs and now offers a single infrastructure for managing server and desktop virtualization deployments. RHEV for Desktops will deploy Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) configurations, a k a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). It offers a web-based connection broker for users to access their hosted virtual desktops, coupled with the open source SPICE remote rendering technology for multimedia, including multiple monitors, HD-quality video and bi-directional audio/video for video conferences. Templating, thin provisioning and desktop pooling are also included.

Cisco and Red Hat Strike Virtualization Deal

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:58:59 EDT

Cisco and Red Hat are collaborating on virtualization efforts by integrating Cisco's Virtual Network Link technology with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. The companies say that joining the Cisco Unified Computing System Virtual Interface Card with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor would be advantageous for datacenter deployments as it enables a network infrastructure better armed to take on virtualization for linux platforms resulting in higher performance and lower costs. VN-Link automates the movement of network and storage services so they can track virtual machines around the datacenter ensuring consistent networking across all servers. The combo is set to be released later this year along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 including the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.

Red Hat Ushers in Next Generation of Web Application Deployment

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:15:00 EDT

On Thursday Red Hat, Inc. announced the general availability of its next-generation portal solution, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0 The advent of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0 marks the next stage in Red Hat’s goal of providing the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of middleware products. Organizations worldwide now have a flexible, open source alternative for building, deploying, integrating and managing on-premise and cloud-based applications. “With JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat provides the middleware components necessary for organizations to standardize their application architecture with confidence using a flexible approach to accommodate user choice”, said Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager for middleware, Red Hat. “JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0 provides users the interaction capabilities necessary to build and deploy rich web-based applications.”

Red Hat Unveils Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Solutions

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:06:00 EDT

On Wednesday Red Hat, Inc. announced new offerings, ecosystem infrastructure and services designed to provide CIOs with a comprehensive, easy on-ramp to cloud computing. The company announces the expansion of development services that provide customers with the tools and expertise needed to deploy and manage cloud environments as well as enhancements to the Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider Program.

Red Hat Enables and Empowers its Global Business Partners

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:15:00 EDT

On Tuesday Red Hat, Inc. announced the global launch of the Red Hat Partner Center, an online community and resource center for Red Hat Business Partners. The Center features a single portal for partners to access sales enablement tools including targeted marketing materials on cloud services, virtualization, platform and middleware solutions. The portal also includes an integrated case submission feature, deal registration, subscription management, training resources, specialization requests and upgrades, as well as an interactive online forum where partners can actively offer continuous feedback.

Likewise Touts Growth Linking Red Hat into Mixed Corporate Networks

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:58:00 EDT

"More than half of Likewise customer server licenses are on Red Hat -- so our relationship with them is a critical one," said Tracy Lothringer, director of strategic alliances, Likewise. "Red Hat is moving well beyond data center oriented Unix migration and is reaching into the broader market. We're seeing RHEL adoption in market segments that hadn't been using Unix previously -- representing new growth for Linux. These customers require solutions to unify their increasingly mixed environments." Likewise is a previous winner of the annual Red Hat Innovation Award in the category of "Enhanced Security" -- cited for its effective use of Red Hat solutions to heighten the security of IT systems. In addition, Likewise is a Red Hat "Ready Business Partner" with software that has been tested and built from the ground up to work well with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.e event.

Who’s Gonna Buy Novell?

Thu, 20 May 2010 12:15:00 EDT

Novell set this week as the deadline for acquisition offers, according to the Wall Street Journal followed by the New York Times. Elliott Associates LLP spokesman Scott Tagliarino claims Elliott, whose $5.75-a-share offer put Novell in play a couple of months ago, knows nothing about Novell's schedule. "It's running its own show," he said. Elliott's offer is still on the table. Novell refused the hedge fund's unsolicited bid as too low but since the offer inflated Novell's sunken stock price the company knew it was trapped and went looking for a sweeter deal.

The Essential Guide to Better Release Management & Deployment

Mon, 17 May 2010 19:45:00 EDT

Managing an application release and its distribution is a complex piece of the development process. A release may pass every test in QA, then quickly go haywire when in production. Components can get left behind, destination targets are missed or files get installed in the wrong locations with no easy way to roll back. Download this eBook from Aldon and learn how to how to make your efforts feel like a walk in the park and not a day on the battlefield.

Red Hat Strikes Deeper into Amazon

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:45:00 EDT

Red Hat handed out a new permission slip first thing Tuesday morning, saying that its Advanced Platform Premium and Server Premium subscribers are entitled to Red Hat Cloud Access. In other words, they’re free to move their supported RHEL widgetry between traditional on-premise servers and Amazon Web Services via EC2. Other Certified Cloud Providers will follow in due course. Red Hat’s been beta’ing RHEL on Amazon for two-and-a-half years now. Product strategy director Mike Ferris called it a beta as in business model. A couple of strings with the Cloud Access program though. The fine print says to qualify customers need a minimum of 25 “active, unused” subscriptions and a direct (L1-L3) relationship with Red Hat support. Third-party support makes them ineligible. Red Hat Academic Program and desktop customers can’t cut it either.

NTT Powers Cloud Service with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:45:00 EDT

Red Hat on Wednesday announced another endorsement of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a foundational technology for clouds. NTT Communications (NTT Com) in Japan has built its new cloud computing and hosting service offering, BizHosting Basic, on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and has become a Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider. In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be offered as a guest operating system for the new NTT Com service. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization was delivered to the market in November 2009 and has since been adopted by a number of global technology leaders, including IBM and NTT Com, as the technology base for their enterprise cloud offerings. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, designed for the demands of the cloud, aims to create a secure, scalable environment for sharing resources among multiple users and organizations and for managing them simply and flexibly. NTT Com, an original Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta customer, worked with Red Hat during the development of the KVM-based virtualization platform. The companies continue this collaboration today with NTT Com's selection of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform for its pioneering commercial cloud service.

Red Hat Enables Enterprise Cloud Usage by Leveraging Amazon Web Services

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:15:00 EDT

Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, on Tuesday announced an expanded offering on Amazon Web Services LLC in an effort to provide enterprises with a more efficient way to reduce costs, drive innovation and improve business agility with cloud computing. Amazon Web Services is the first Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider that enables customers to extend their Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions into the cloud simply and easily with Red Hat Cloud Access. With Red Hat Cloud Access, customers can move their Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions between traditional on-premise servers and Amazon Web Services. With this feature, customers can select appropriate computing resources for their needs, without the need for new business or support models.

Cloud Expo, Inc. Names Carmen Gonzalez CEO

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:15:00 EDT

SYS-CON announced today that "Cloud Expo, Inc." has spun out of SYS-CON Events, Inc. as a startup events management company effective March 1, 2010. Carmen Gonzalez begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting was named president & CEO of Cloud Expo, Inc. Carmen served as the co-founder, president, and chief operating officer of SYS-CON Media since 1994. In this capacity, Carmen was in charge of SYS-CON's sales and marketing functions. Under her leadership, the company was named by Inc 500 as among the fastest-growing 500 privately held companies in North America three years in a row.

Adaptivity’s Mike Tardif to Discuss the Science Of IT Design in the Cloud

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:30:00 EDT

The “root cause” of IT delivery limitations is directly linked to how systems are designed, built and implemented. Transforming IT Design from an Art to a Science is a critical success factor to enabling the Enterprise Cloud. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Mike Tardif, Chief Strategist for Adaptivity, will describe how to take the aspects of IT Economics, IT Physics and IT Supply Chain Management and create a systematic design discipline that will enable you to create higher performing and more cost-effective IT solutions for the Enterprise Cloud. You wouldn’t build a building without a blueprint, right? So why would you build a Cloud for IT without a blueprint?

Symbian Foundation Builds Cloud Platform on Red Hat

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:30:00 EDT

Not to mix metaphors or anything but the Symbian Foundation, which is trying to foster a new open source community around the old Nokia-proprietary mobile phone operating system, is basing the private cloud platform that hosts its developer web site developer.symbian.org on Red Hat’s Linux. Red Hat also runs most of Symbian’s servers, which have been licensed through IBM Services.

Red Hat's REV to Support Desktop Virtualization

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:00:00 EDT

The first beta of the KVM-based Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV) 2.2 – a rev of the stuff IBM is using for its test & dev cloud – was pushed out the door Monday and for the first time the widgetry supports both virtual servers and virtual desktops. The desktop stuff isn’t standalone anymore. The SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) protocol that Red Hat got when it bought Qumranet about 18 months ago renders the desktops. There’s a connection broker and a web portal where users go to access their desktops. The beta can also do other tricks like import and export virtual machine images and templates from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft using the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and automatically convert VMware or Xen virtual machines into KVM virtual machines complements of its V2V tool – well, it can if they were Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 or 5 virtual machines to begin with.

Red Hat’s Michael Ferris to Present at Cloud Expo East

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:30:00 EDT

Interest in cloud computing has been growing rapidly over the past year, with the advent of both new technologies and innovative business models. With many enterprises looking to deploy cloud solutions, there is a growing need for a comprehensive ecosystem of both service and technology providers to properly enable the cloud. Only by marrying the technical, business, and legal dynamics of cloud computing across a robust ecosystem will enterprises be able to achieve the reduced costs and increased operational efficiency at the scale that can be delivered by the cloud. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Michael Ferris, Director of Product Strategy, Cloud Computing at Red Hat, will illustrate both the requirements as well as a strategy for building a robust open cloud ecosystem that will stay true to the promise of cloud computing and reinforce the value that open source is already bringing to the enterprise.

Red Hat $252 Million Short of Its Bogey

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EDT

Red Hat still can’t call itself a billion-dollar company. A billion dollar is its “milestone revenue goal” and it look like it’s gonna be a few more years before it gets there. Revenues for the fiscal year ended February 28 totaled $748.2 million, up 15%, with subscriptions coming in at $638.7 million, up 18%. Earnings totaled $87.3 million or 45 cents a share (59 cents non-GAAP). On the other hand, Red Hat’s rocky competitor Novell, whose future is currently uncertain, just broke even in the Linux business in January. The company’s Q4 numbers were up but there was something about them that caused Wall Street to pull back on the news. Reuters, quoting Jefferies, suggested it was the deferred revenue of $645.9 million, up 19%, rather than the $672 million looked for.

Red Hat’s KVM Virtualization Steals Spotlight

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:30:00 EDT

IBM has launched a new service that lets outside enterprises indulge in software development and testing on its Cloud Platform. IBM currently hosts services on the web like Lotus Live along with a Private cloud option that it launched in 2009. Since then it has steadily expanded its cloud portfolio [...]

Cloud Expo New York, Prague, and San Francisco Sponsors

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Cloud Computing in 2010 will be a paradigm shifting technology trend and Cloud Expo is where the Cloud change will form as the single most significant industry event we enter a new decade. Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New York City, I have been personally working with the companies that are in leadership positions as the Cloud technologies form. We recently presented the 4th International Cloud Computing & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The expo floor was packed for three days. Today, we have close to a 100% resign rate among our sponsors for the upcoming Cloud Expo, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. I would like to take this opportunity to share some tips with all our valued sponsors, exhibitors, our rock start faculty, as well as our delegates.

IBM Uses Cloud Expo Sponsor Red Hat's Cloud Computing Technology

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:15:00 EDT

Red Hat first announced plans to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in February 2009 to help address customer concerns about virtualization, such as performance, scalability and security. In November 2009, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers was released, providing customers with a new, fully featured, cost-effective choice in the virtualization market. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers some of the industry's latest technology, enabling enterprise adoption of virtualization and the deployment of open cloud computing infrastructures.

Chuck Phillips Was Supposed to Become CEO of CA

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST

Oracle co-president Charles Phillips was supposed to become CEO of CA - for all its muddied skirts still one of the world's largest software companies - and then those "soul mates forever" billboards popped up in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco, exposing his near decade-long bi-coastal double life with wife and son in the East and a live-in girlfriend in the West. Six days after Phillips was forced to admit that a picture of him and his ex-girlfriend canoodling was hanging over Times Square, CA named board member and executive chairman Bill McCracken CEO. He's the guy who's been running the company since John Swainson's reportedly forced retirement was announced in September. An ex-IBMer and an ex-Swainson pal, it was no secret he really wanted the job. That was the day after Oracle announced it had closed the Sun deal and Phillips led the victory parade filling in for Oracle's unexpectedly absent other co-president Safra Catz.

Colin Clark Launches CEP Topic on Ulitzer

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:45:00 EST

Colin Clark launched on Wednesday "CEP Complex Event Processing" topic on Ulitzer. Colin has been processing events in event processing for over 20 years and has both founded a couple of companies and held executive positions at others in the space. Complex event processing, or CEP, is primarily an event processing concept that deals with the task of processing multiple events with the goal of identifying the meaningful events within the event cloud. CEP employs techniques such as detection of complex patterns of many events, event correlation and abstraction, event hierarchies, and relationships between events such as causality, membership, and timing, and event-driven processes. CEP is to discover information contained in the events happening across all the layers in an organization and then analyze its impact from the macro level as "complex event" and then take subsequent action plan in real time.

Open Systems Provide Way to Exit Money Pit

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:45:00 EST

Now is the time to examine the TCO migrating from Unix to the more cost-effective open systems platforms. This white paper explores the costs associated with legacy data centers and the benefits of migrating to an open systems architecture.

Cloud Start-up Pulls in $8m A Round

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:30:00 EST

Nasuni, a Massachusetts start-up that’s about to trot out a gateway to cloud storage, has gotten $8 million in Series A funding from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Nasuni founders CEO Andres Rodriguez, an ex-CTO of the New York Times, and Robert Mason pioneered a cloud storage architecture at Archivas, which Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) acquired in 2007 for $120 million.

Tip of the Red Hat - Entrust Updates PKI Platform, Adds Linux Support

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:00:00 EST

Building on the continued success of the public key infrastructure (PKI) platform, Entrust is advancing the technology to bring it to new markets. With the introduction of Entrust Authority Security Manager 8.0, Entrust customers can implement one of the most trusted PKI security solutions available on the cost-effective Linux Red Hat platform. This release introduces Entrust to the open-source platform market and expands the potential overall installation base for the PKI solution.

Virtualization Expo New York Call for Papers to Expire January 15, 2010

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:15:00 EST

Delegates will leave Virtualization Expo with a full understanding of the interaction between virtual servers and the rest of the data center infrastructure. Indeed our overall aim is to ensure that all attendees leave the Jacob Javits Convention Center with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization in their own corporate datacenter, on the desktop, and elsewhere. If you wish to submit a speaking proposal for the 8th Virtualization Expo, April 19–21, 2010, then you can do so right here

Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers to Expire January 15, 2010

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:45:00 EST

In response to massive demand, the world's largest Cloud event - the International Cloud Computing Expo series - is expanding its number of tracks and sessions for April 2010. The deadline for the very popular Call for Papers, which resulted in a greater deluge of submissions than ever seen before, is being extended to the other side of the holiday period - to January 15. Additionally, SYS-CON Events announces the addition of additional tracks, additional session slots, and a general all-round expansion of the program in line with the expectations of the 5,000 delegates who are expected to register for the event.

Red Hat Continues It’s Winning Streak

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:00:00 EST

One of the top performing areas for Red Hat has been its Subscription revenue which showed a 21 per cent jump. The sore spot though was it's operating income which lagged by more than $1 million due to $8.8 million for a litigation settlement. In spite of that, it has managed to chalk up an income of US$194.3 million with record billings, boosting accounts receivable by US$24 million from the same period last year.

Paragon NTFS for Linux to Support Netgear’s Open Source Router

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:00:00 EST

Storage solutions manufacturer Paragon Software Group says it now supports the RangeMax Wireless-N Gigabit opensource router from Netgear. Paragon NTFS for Linux will provide complete access to a Windows hard drive attached to NETGEAR's WNR3500L open source router allowing all PCs, clients and servers on the network, running Windows, Mac or Linux to access and share files to and from the drive via the WNR3500L router.

Class Action Suit to Cost Red Hat $8.8m

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:45:00 EST

Red Hat says it’s reached an agreement in principle to settle a class action suit pending in the Eastern District of North Carolina that was brought on behalf of shareholders in connection with the restatement of financial results announced in July of 2004. It’s reserving $8.8 million and means to take this one-time charge in the quarter ended November 30 when it announces its results on December 22.

Adaptivity “Platinum Plus Sponsor” of Cloud Expo

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptivity, the IT transformation company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Adaptivity's CEO Tony Bishop will be offering major thought leadership in a Morning Keynote.

Hosting.com Enhances Cloud Computing Portfolio

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:30:00 EST

Hosting.com, a provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions and a strategic VMware vCloud partner, on Thursday announced multiple enhancements to the Cloud Enterprise environment driven by significant market demand. Access to high performance SAN (EMC) storage, increased computer resources (8GB of RAM now 32 and 4vCPU now 8) and support for seven additional operating systems (including RedHat and Windows Datacenter 2008 R2) highlight the enhancements.

Cloud Expo Power Panel Streaming Live From Times Square

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:30:00 EST

Cloud Computing and its ability to process the needs of multiple users with shared resources in a dynamic and transparent fashion doesn’t happen by chance. The underlying technologies and their ability to provide elasticity, scalability, and automation, while protecting data in motion, data at rest and data in process are critical to a successful Cloud Computing implementation.

CloudShare Comes Out of Stealth

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:30:00 EST

CloudShare, formerly IT Structures, has come out of stealth today with marquee customers and a proven cloud-based technology platform for sales engineers and trainers. CloudShare customers have already delivered over one million VM demo, PoC (proof of concept) and training hours to date, representing over six quarters of consecutive double-digit usage growth for CloudShare. This early success demonstrates the practical, revenue-oriented, immediately useful nature of the CloudShare platform. CloudShare's platform gives solution providers and ISVs selling software or appliances a simple way to deploy multiple, independent copies of their existing fully built hands-on demo or training environment in the cloud, in minutes versus the days or weeks typically associated with on-site delivery of such enterprise-class systems.