Enterprise cloud purveyor Virtustream is bringing OpenStack to parity with vCenter/ESX in its latest xStream cloud management release.…
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News flash: The cloud is the computer for enterprises too
Big, traditional enterprises that scoffed at cloud deployment a few years ago, aren't laughing now. They're fully aboard, as we'll discuss at Structure 2014.…
Read MoreIntel expands “Intel Inside” cloud branding beyond Amazon
As some cloud giants consider custom processors, Intel is banking that users do (or will) care about what sort of chip is running their clouds -- and so a logo program is born.…
Read MoreAmazon cloud keeps growing but so do options; the week in cloud
Amazon Web Services continues to sell like hotcakes although it may or may not be the most price-efficient option; and this week's Structure Show.…
Read MoreA heaping helping of Hadoop products just hit the market
It's product-announcement season in the big data and Hadoop world, and this week was full of them. Here are some of the more interesting items you might have missed if you blinked.…
Read MoreThe perks and pitfalls of partnering; the week in cloud
Traditional vendor alliances are under stress (to say the least) but a few partnerships bucked the trend this week in cloud.…
Read MoreWhen “effortless” is anything but: Today’s cloud washing is all about hybrid
As more companies weigh moves to the cloud, vendors have latched onto the "hybrid" label as a sales tool.…
Read MoreVirtustream lands $40M from SAP to build out its enterprise cloud
Already partners in the cloud, SAP and Virtustream tighten ties with SAP's big investment.…
Read MoreIaaS pioneer Reuven Cohen joins Citrix as chief cloud advocate
Reuven Cohen, who founded Enomaly an early IaaS player, is now aboard at Citrix, where he will push that company's cloud agenda.…
Read MoreIs the cloud exchange concept ready for primetime? Deutsche Boerse thinks so.
The Deutsche Boerse Cloud Exchange, which will launch in Frankfurt, New York and Singapore in 2014, aims to make it as easy to trade compute and storage capacity as it is to trade stocks.…
Read MoreHow Amazon’s cloud competitors are trying to find cracks in AWS’s armor
News flash: The public cloud "ain't all that," says every cloud provider in the universe (except for Amazon Web Services.)…
Read MoreJoyent to Amazon: It’s on
Joyent isn't being coy about it: It wants to compete head on with Amazon and that means it will offer many more options including some, it says, are cheaper than analogous AWS services.…
Read MoreHow OpenStack upended the private cloud market overnight
The private cloud world hasn't been the same since OpenStack sucked the air out of the room. Here's a look at the companies doing private cloud before OpenStack and how they've fared.…
Read MoreThis week’s 10 best data stories (so far)
There has been a lot of data news already this week -- some big, some interesting, and some both. Here's a collection of the stuff you shouldn't, or don't want to, miss.…
Read MoreAlready awash in cloud cash, Virtustream raises $15M more
Cloud computing provider Virtustream, a hot player in the enterprise cloud space, with a cloud platform designed for mission-critical and heavy-duty enterprise applications such as SAP, has raised another $15 million in investment capital. The money brings Virtustream's total funding to $75 million.…
Read MoreVirtustream buys cloud pioneer Enomaly
Virtustream, a fast-growing enteprise cloud provider, is buying cloud-computing pioneer Enomaly for an undisclosed amount. Enomaly, which launched in 2003, sells one of the first private-cloud management products, Elastic Computing Platform, and in the last year launched an infrastructure resource exchange called SpotCloud.…
Read MoreLike Zynga, Digital Chocolate pulls back from the cloud
It looks like Zynga's infrastructure strategy is rubbing off on gaming startups. Digital Chocolate, purveyor of social games such as Millionaire City and Pro MMA Fighter, is following in Zynga's footsteps of launching games in the cloud, then bringing them back in house when demand levels.…
Read MoreEnterprise clouds stay hot as Virtustream raises $10M
Virtustream, a cloud computing provider focused on hosting enterprise applications, has raised $10 million in a Series B round. The round was funded by existing investors Intel Capital, Columbia Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners, and TDFunds, which invested $49 million in Virtustream's Series A round last year.…
Read MoreIs There a Real Market for ‘Enterprise PaaS?’
Cloud provider Tier3 announced this morning that it has secured $8.5 million from Ignition Capital and Madrona Venture Group to fund its "enterprise platform-as-a-service" offering, a term that might not be entirely accurate, but that might actually be indicative of a forthcoming trend in cloud marketing.…
Read MoreMo' Money: Life Is Good for Cloud Vendors
Put simply, life is good for cloud computing and big data vendors because there’s plenty of money to be made. Whether it’s from VCs, big IT suitors or (gasp) customers, someone wants to invest in your vision. Want evidence? This week offered plenty.…
Read MoreEnterprise Cloud Adoption Is Changing the Playing Field
Cloud computing has played a starring role in the technology press for two or three years, but it's now moving from the haven of startups or random corporate side projects to the enterprise, so get ready for another round of acquisitions and investments.…
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