Data Center buildout continues - Amazon is building another one in Oregon
By Tarry Singh at 24 June, 2009, 2:14 am
Amazon buys a large volume of servers to support its cloud computing operations. It was the top customer for Rackable Systems/SGI in 2008, buying more than $86 million of the company’s cloud-optimized servers and storage.
Amazon is known to already operate a major East Coast data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The company has disclosed that it [...]
How Google and Amazon’s Clouds will kill Data Centers worldwide
By Tarry Singh at 22 June, 2009, 10:39 am
The Elephant in the Room: Google
Google has been using the cloud as one of its strategies to poach in areas that Microsoft has traditionally owned. Gmail and Google Apps are quietly pecking away at Microsoft Office, and no one seems to mind – or even notice – that these are cloud-based applications.
Of course, these are [...]
VMlogix: Hypervisor agnostic Lab Manager firm readies itself for the Cloud with Amazon
By Tarry Singh at 21 June, 2009, 10:13 pm
PALO ALTO, Calif. – June 22, 2009 – VMLogix, Inc., a provider of virtual machine management solutions designed for software companies and IT organizations, today announced the beta release of VMLogix LabManager™ – Cloud Edition, a new product that enables software teams to run virtual labs within cloud computing environments. The only offering on the [...]
Read More >>Is Amazon AWS APIs for EC2, S3 etc poised to go Open Source? I don’t think so.
By Tarry Singh at 30 May, 2009, 4:44 am
I am not sure if that will help Amazon get its feet inside the enterprise customers. Enterprises have heard of those open source start-ups but won’t do any business with them unless there is some sense of security and trusted advisory role of the vendor.
Although it’s only a rumor, Reuven Cohen reports hearing from [...]
Report: Amazon to lead the post-recession boom with Cloud Computing
By Tarry Singh at 30 May, 2009, 4:30 am
In the report, which analyzes the forces commoditizing enterprise storage, authors George Gilbert and Juergen Urbanski write that leading storage vendors are planning their innovation around a 3-year time frame, expecting adoption of new storage technologies to coincide with emergence from the current recession. An accompanying survey supports this analysis, as a majority of respondents [...]
Read More >>Will Amazon make a shift from Xen to Citrix’s free XenServer?
By Tarry Singh at 13 May, 2009, 11:02 am
Alessandro is reporting that Amazon may be making its move towards XenServer and given that Citrix is really killing VMware’s game by releasing loads of stuff for free. I was at Vegas and saw my friend’s start-up (XenSource) started dishing out loads of stuff for free.
This truly will impact all the proprietary vendors such as [...]
Citrix Synergy 2009 - Citrix and Amazon tie up to give computing to all consumers
By Tarry Singh at 5 May, 2009, 1:57 pm
LAS VEGAS — MAY 6, 2009 — Today at Citrix Synergy™ 2009, the conference where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), announced a new cloud solution called Citrix C3 Lab that will allow companies of all sizes to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of their standard technology infrastructure. [...]
Read More >>Amazon does Hadoop: Adds Web-Scale Processing Engine to its Cloud
By Tarry Singh at 2 April, 2009, 2:22 pm
Slowly but surely, Amazon keeps adding capabilities to its cloud computing services. What started out as pay-by-the-drink storage (S3) and computational processing (EC2), now includes a simple database (SimpleDB), a content delivery network (CloudFront), and computer-to-computer messaging (SQS). And today Amazon added a web-scale file system data processing engine with Amazon Elastic MapReduce. (It is [...]
Read More >>Amazon gains traction in the enterprise cloud space
By Tarry Singh at 24 March, 2009, 11:35 am
SaaS is usually hosted software that’s shared by multiple customers, which each pay a per-seat monthly subscription fee. Amazon EC2, however, was designed as a platform that lets users easily size server capacity up or down. Software is delivered via what’s called an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), which can contain applications, libraries, data, and configuration [...]
Read More >>Cloud Wars on the horizon: Amazon wants customers to commit long-term
By Tarry Singh at 12 March, 2009, 12:09 pm
Nothing wrong though as Microsoft’s missed train on Virtualization is coming ten times harder with its Azure offerings.
Microsoft’s (MSFT) Azure cloud is launching sometime later this year. But Amazon (AMZN) isn’t letting the new entry into the cloud computing space go unchallenged — the company is today announcing “reserved instances”, guaranteed uptime and a price [...]
