RightScale: How The Cloud Will Scale
RightScale, which was built by ELC on top of Amazon’s EC2 cloud service is featured today in a ReadWriteWeb story that highlights some impressive cloud growth numbers, including an increase in cloud computing usage growth of 1000% in just one year.
Cloudy With A Chance of DNS Services
Here is an idea what to do if you are tired of managing DNS servers. BlueCat Networks’ Proteus Cloud Services is the first managed DNS service to offer IP address management (IPAM) hosted in the cloud.
How To Reduce Your Cloud Hosting Cost
When you are planning hardware resources for a web presence that needs to be available, you tend to assume the worst case scenario, the maximum connections that need to be supported - and then some to make sure you don’t go down when there is one or ...
Cloud Computing To Drive Server Hardware
Cloud computing will be a key force behind hardware sales over the next few years, IDC believes. In fact, the investments are significant enough to be considered a whole new era in IT infrastructures and not just replacements, which highlights the quic...
Dreamworks Big Into Cloud Computing
Future animations from Dreamworks SKG will not be rendered on its own servers anymore, but outsourced to Cerelink, the studio announced. The company said that it will use Cerelink’s supercomputing infrastructure at the New Mexico Applications Centre ...
Government Approves Cloud Apps
If there is a concern about cloud applications that we here of these days, then it certainly is the security of cloud apps. Where is the data stored? How secure is the environment? Can it be as secure as if you were to store the data locally? Of course...
Cloud Moving Into The Enterprise Fast
Savvis this morning posted the results of a new survey, which indicates that decisions makers and executives are more and more looking to the cloud as a way to recover from the global economic downturn.
VMware Embraces Cloud Computing
VMware has just announced a new version of its virtualization platform vSphere. It may not be too surprising that the new version 4.1 is introduced with a focus on cloud computing abilities and benefits, but it is remarkable nevertheless. VMware says v...
Malware Protection Moves To The Cloud
McAfee announced its first cloud-based malware protection software. Called “SaaS Web Protection” the software promises to offer traditional reporting and protection capabilities malware, spam, trojans and other Internet-borne threats. However, ther...
Trendwatch: The Cloud Today And In 2020
Guessing what will happen in tech in the future is often means that you are walking on thin ice. That is especially true when you are talking about a horizon of 10 years. Who would have predicted in 2000 that the tablet can succeed and that we will be ...
