The analogy goes that with more organizations hosting applications in the cloud, and with data volumes skyrocketing, the data center takes the place of the on-premise server. If that’s the case, the cloud computing management software must be the new operating system, so scalability is critical. Read More »
Data Centers
Google’s recent push into tablets and mobile along with offering new search services such as Google Instant are pushing up company’s Capex which is slotted to grow almost 184 percent in 2010. Next year will be even higher. And all this spending is a good thing. Read More »
Regulated industries like health care and financial services deal with large quantities of sensitive data many deem unsuitable for cloud storage. But for those prepared to invest in understanding and meeting the requirements of such heavily regulated environments, there are many opportunities to offer premium services. Read More »
Open Cirrus, an open source test bed for advancing cloud computing based research, has attracted new organizations including two telecommunications firms. China Mobile Research Institute, the Supercomputing Center of Galicia in Spain, China Telecom’s Guangzhou Research Institute, and Georgia Tech University have all joined the project. Read More »
The action in the data warehouse/analytic database space has been hot and heavy over the past couple weeks, with new funding, acquisitions and partnerships announced seemingly every day, and this trend is unlikely to slow. I predict a few more acquisitions coming down the pike. Read More »
Massive electrical equipment giant ABB isn’t a name commonly associated with young startups. But this morning, the company said that it’s invested a small sum through its VC arm into Valley startup Power Assure, which makes an on demand data center power service. Read More »
Design inspiration can come from unusual places — for Yahoo it was chicken coops, which utilize outside air and can reduce cooling power and costs. On Monday Yahoo announced that the first data center to mimic this fine-feathered design is up and running. Read More »
Google, owners of the biggest web infrastructure projects, is building a massive data center in Hamina, Finland. The mega datacenter is going to cost $260 million and will go live in spring 2011. It is housed in a paper mill, and will cost over $260 million. Read More »
Dunking servers in a bath of oil sounds like the fastest way to break some very expensive hardware. But not for startup Green Revolution Cooling, which builds energy efficient liquid-cooled servers and its first customer collocation firm Midas Networks will implement the technology later this year. Read More »
Jamcracker and Eucalyptus announced at VMWorld today that they are partnering on an integration aimed at enabling users to self-provision their private and hybrid clouds. This announcement comes hot on the heels of last weeks announcement of a technology partnership between Eucalyptus, newScale and rPath. Read More »
One area where VMware did not disappoint this week is breadth of vision. In just a handful of years, the company has gone from the defacto hypervisor provider to an all-encompassing software infrastructure vendor for virtualization and cloud computing. The volume of announcements can be overwhelming. Read More »
VMworld is still going on but we’re going to let some other news into the roundup today with a few stories about the future of data centers and job opportunities in the cloud. There’s also a post on the difficulties of choosing between scaling out vs. … Read More »
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