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Highlights From CloudSlam 2011

May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The third edition of CloudSlam, a virtual annual conference about cloud computing presented by CloudCor, was held from April 18 to 22. The conference provided a fresh outlook on cloud computing, covering all the latest trends and innovations in the space. Since the first event in 2009, CloudSlam has been growing in prominence with partners like Microsoft, CA, Rackspace, AMD and many more endorsing the conference. The conference hosted many innovative demonstrations and interesting … [Read more...]

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What is a quasi-private cloud?

October 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
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It's not surprising that interest around private clouds and their implementation inside corporate firewalls is increases as many enterprisesreckon that public clouds are not secure or trustworthy enough for migrating their IT systems and/or data to. VMware, HP and others have been introducing private cloud solutions lately that are intended for enterprises that want to obtain the primary benefits of cloud computing, like auto-provisioning, self-service, cost granularity, breakdown pricing and … [Read more...]

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Will virtualization become less important in cloud computing?

August 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
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It' generally acknowledged that VMware are the leaders in virtualization technology. Products like the the vSpere has probably been installed in more data centers than any ofther virtualization platform. Not to minimize the importance of other platforms, like the Citrix XenServer and Linux KVM, the vSphere is the market leading virtualization platform that together with its strong installed base and head-start set VMware in a comfortable position for developing its cloud computing strategy. And … [Read more...]

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Status of the cloud computing hype!

December 17, 2009 By 2 Comments

It seems that cloud computing is nearing the top of the hype-cycle according to "Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report for 2009". Gartner claims that within the next 5 years, most enterprises will utilize cloud computing as a more economical alternative for running their IT resources, compared to on-premise resource management. Not only does this apply to migrating IT resources like network servers, databases and storage to the public cloud utilizing "Infrastructure-as-a-Service" (IaaS) services, … [Read more...]

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