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Tips for Organizations Heading to the Cloud

January 5, 2012

Business

Amazon EC2, Business agility, Business process, cloud, cloud computing, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, Security domain

In my travels speaking with organizations looking to move to the Cloud, I’m often confronted by folks who have an innate distrust of all things Cloud. These folks are easy to deals with; I respect their opinion (despite entirely…

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ControlMyCloud Goes Beta

December 14, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, amazon web services, Business, cloud computing, cloudability, controlmycloud, sensiblecloud, Service level agreement

One of the concerns that many people have when considering a move to the cloud is that of granular control. The last thing an organization wants is to open the flood gates to uncontrolled performance, cost or poor efficiency.…

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Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding

November 15, 2011

Business

amazon, Amazon EC2, chef, DevOps, Microsoft, puppet, Puppet Labs

Whenever technology platforms change, there is a scramble to provide the underlying services upon which the new paradigm sits. The move to the cloud is no different and cloud monitoring is one area where there is a significant amount…

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Xeround Offers DBaaS on Rackspace Cloud

September 20, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Heroku, MySQL, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud, Xeround

Xeround the database service (more on them here) that is brining high levels of flexibility to cloud database users, is today rolling out availability on the Rackspace cloud. Formerly available on Amazon EC2 and Heroku, Xeround is moving in…

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Nimbula for Geographically Distributed Clouds

August 15, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, Citrix Systems, enStratus, Nimbula, OpenStack, Reza Malekzadeh, user interface

I’ve covered Nimbula previously, the company that is aiming to blend the scale enjoyed by public cloud providers like Amazon with the customization and control that private infrastructure enjoys. Nimbula has royal blood behind is with an executive/founder team…

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Xeround Goes GA with Cloud Database

June 13, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, cloud computing, Database, Heroku, MySQL, rackspace, Xeround

Xeround today announced the general availability of its Cloud Database for MySQL Applications. Xeround is a pay-per-use cloud database service that enables customers to only pay for actual resources consumed and not by server/instance size. This can be contrasted…

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Xeround Still Has Faith in Heroku

March 15, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, Database, Heroku, MySQL, Salesforce.com, SQL, Xeround

Late last year salesforce.com announced its acquisition of PaaS product Heroku. At the time there was a smattering of concern from users of Heroku as to what the acquisition would mean for Heroku – would salesforce play nice with…

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Nimbula goes GA and Creates an Ecosystem

March 8, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, enStratus, Nimbula, Opscode, Puppet Labs, Scalr, Skytap, VMware

I’ve written previously about Nimbula (see here) the company founded by the creators of Amazon’s EC2 product to; Blend Amazon EC2-like scale, agility and efficiency, with private infrastructure customization and control Previously only available to beta testers, Nimbula is…

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On Microsoft and the Lack of Startup Cred

January 18, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, azure, cloud computing, gmail, Microsoft, Quora, Software as a Service, Y Combinator

The recent domain profiling of Y Combinator startups was interesting reading from a “how far ahead of corporate IT are startups when it comes to cloud services?” question, but also interesting was a look at Microsoft‘s performance among the…

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