Engine Yard, a San Francisco-based startup that makes Ruby on Rails automation and management products, has raised $19 million in its third round of venture capital funding from the likes of DAG Ventures, Bay Partners, and Presidio Ventures (a Sumitomo Corp. venture investment company). Previous investors… Read More »
Infrastructure
EMC is planning to launch a cloud computing service to compliment its Atmos on-demand storage service at the end of this month, according to a vendor working with the storage giant on the project. The computing cloud will be built on Cisco’s Unified Computing System gear,… Read More »
The Central Intelligence Agency “endorses cloud computing, but only internally,” according to an article today at ComputerWorld, which has me thinking it is more likely embracing the concept of delivering IT as a service from a single resource pool espoused by HP rather than the multi-tenant,… Read More »
With Google’s endless projects — from book search to a browser killer to Blogger — you’re probably wondering why I’m so excited about a new partnership deal for the company’s PowerMeter energy management tool. Well, here’s why: For the first time, consumers can now access PowerMeter… Read More »
IBM said today that it now has a storage infrastructure cloud aimed at enterprise customers who need a private, on-premise or IBM-hosted cloud. A public version will follow soon. Sure, everyone has a storage component combined with their infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds, but what’s notable here is… Read More »
Brocade’s hanging of a “for sale” sign shines the spotlight on the one area of cloud and enterprise expansion that up until now has been largely overlooked: the network. Pick your model — cloud or enterprise — and it’s clear that while the list of server… Read More »
Ciena Corp., the Linthicum, Md.-based optical equipment maker, today announced that it’s in advanced discussions to acquire substantially all of the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business. Nortel, which has been selling off its various divisions, first announced its… Read More »
