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CloudVelocity Releases its Cloud Migration Product – Cue the Rainbows of Cloud migration

July 16, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, CloudVelocity, data center, Infrastructure, linux, Microsoft Windows

Cloudbursting – that oft-told urban myth that sees workloads magically move across infrastructure like wisps of smoke. It’s a provocative image and one that never fails to get the back up of seasoned IT folks who wrangle this stuff…

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Another Hybrid Cloud Startup – RackWare Raises $3M

June 27, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Hybrid cloud, Infrastructure, OpenStack, oracle, PayPal, Structure 2010, VMware

At Structure last week a real theme that was apparent was the rapid maturing of the perspective of enterprises when it comes to the multi-cloud opportunity. As I explained in my review post of a panel I took part…

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OneNet Rolls Out LiveVault Service Provider Tools

April 12, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, cloud computing, data center, Infrastructure, Monte Carlo, New Zealand, Service provider, Solution

Perhaps one of the least sexy, yet most important parts of building a strong service-provider ecosystem is ensuring that all the infrastructure and tools needed for service providers to… provide their service, are in place. OneNet, a cloud vendor…

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Private Clouds Must Be Agile

October 12, 2012

Business

Chief information officer, cloud, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Infrastructure, Scalability, Self-service, twitter

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can…

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If IaaS is Going to be Heterogeneous, PaaS Will be Even More So

September 25, 2012

Business

appsecute, Business, cloudcomputing, Future, Infrastructure, management, Organization, PaaS, platform services, Solution

The other day I came across this awesome post from Peter Sonsini from NEA. I’m actually loathe to critique it – Peter has gone to lengths to present a coherent thought leadership piece on the future of PaaS and…

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On TOSCA and Cloud Standards. MyPOV

January 20, 2012

Business

cloud computing, Infrastructure, OASIS, Open source, OpenStack, TOSCA

Recently OASIS standards body started work on the proposed Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (or TOSCA) for short, standards specification. The standard aims to deliver on the long-heralded, but much disputed concept of cloud bursting – the…

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Nodeable Closes $2 Million Series A Funding

July 26, 2011

Business

Big data, cloud, cloud computing, Infrastructure, San Francisco

In yet another example of cloud infrastructure analytics being a hot area, San Francisco startup Nodeable, who is “adding a social layer to systems data” is announcing a funding round led by True Ventures. Nodeable uses big data analytics…

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Forklifting Apps to the Cloud – Realistic or Not?

March 30, 2011

Business

Business, cloud computing, enterprise, Infrastructure, Netflix, Organization

A few weeks ago, the shock du jour was the (slightly tongue in cheek) resignation by Christian Reilly from his (very tongue in cheek) position of President of the Private Cloud. There needs to be a little background to…

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