Monthly Archives: January 2009

TBR Report: Google’s march towards Cloud; Enterprises and SMB getting interested

This represents “slow and steady progress in attracting enterprise and SMB [small and midsize business] customers to [the] Google Apps suite of office and communication tools,” according to the TBR report.
“Right now we have more than 3,000 businesses every day [...]

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Amazon Cloud Case Studies: Last call for the “shameless” spenders

These are some cool and yet very down-to-earth [As Jeff Bezos likes it, so I hear] case studies. These studies will tell you, or at least help you understand that there is a lot of reality out there while you’re [...]

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Open Source Virtualization & Cloud Computing group exceeds 800 members; even after LinkedIn’s 50 Groups restriction

I lost a couple of hundreds of “marketing and recruiting” connection hungry lurkers after LinkedIn limited members from joining more than 50 groups. I’m still happy to see the members joining in great numbers. Great thing is that we can [...]

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Cloud Computing and Compliance: Watch out for surprises!

“As enterprises start to run their entire networks on the cloud, existing certifications [such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley, etc.] start to break down,” added Jonathan Bryce, co-founder of Mosso, the cloud division of Rackspace Inc., a hosting firm in San Antonio. “The [...]

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Confirmed:Open Source Storage Project Aperi is dead!

Very very sad, just when we needed some storage freedom, we get to hear this. I see Google silently making it all history with its community storage drives we all are hearing lately called, GDrive.
Like Monty Python’s famous dead parrot, [...]

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Amazon, the Cloud god, books profits; surpasses expectations

Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, gained as much as 19 percent in Nasdaq trading after sales and profit topped estimates, signaling that the company is outpacing EBay Inc. and its e-commerce rivals.
Fourth-quarter net income rose 8.7 percent to [...]

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LightReading Report: Cloud Computing still confusing

Cloud computing is still evolving, but certain ideas are strongly associated with it. When cloud computing supports “on tap” consumption of IT and network infrastructure, it is also known as utility computing or infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Software as [...]

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Appirio connects friends in the Cloud to Salesforce

When we talk about cloud computing, we often talk about a monolithic cloud in the sky. But in fact there are many clouds. There is the Salesforce cloud, the Google cloud, the Amazon cloud, the Microsoft cloud, the Facebook cloud, [...]

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Download my BrightTALK “Cloud Computing : The New New Deal” here

I hope you were able to enjoy a little bit of what I could say. I’ve had a long day today and was kind of exhausted but hopefully was able to keep you guys excited.

I am deeply grateful for having [...]

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3Tera double-whammy Cloud awards: Best Services and SaaS provider

3Tera, Inc., the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, announces HostReview, a top-rated online resource for the Web hosting industry since 1998, named 3Tera to both its 2008 Top 10 Web Host Awards’ Best Cloud Computing [...]

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