Dell is trying to sell its factories – strategic when direct-order desktops were king, now uncompetitive in a laptop world – to contract manufacturers that would then make its PCs, according to the Wall Street Journal. HP has already outsourced a lot of its gear.
When you boil it down to brass tacks, cloud computing is just a new take on an old idea. Businesses are drawn to the facilities that cloud computing has to offer because the availability of our resources dictates our current needs…and our needs always expand beyond the capacity of our resources.
Cloud Computing isn’t just another buzzword: this session will look at what the industry is up to, Amazon is up to, and especially how people are innovating in the cloud. Buzzwords aside, virtualized (cloud) computing is a disruptive game changer at both technical and business levels, as you’ll learn. Amazon Senior Evangelist Jeff Barr will review Amazon’s multi-year effort to provide software developers and entrepreneurs with the technical and business innovations which allow them to build cost-effective, highly-scalable web applications.
It’s simple and minimalistic, has a small memory footprint and is easy on the CPU. Flash player works fine on my Windows XP box. JavaFX developers should like it too.
Cloud computing is changing the ground rules for startup companies – both in their infrastructure choices and in the bar for technology development prior to funding. In a breakout session at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo, Lars Leckie - a Principal at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners - will walk through the venture capital perspective of the cloud computing market covering both consumer and enterprise usage. Leckie’s session will cover the tools for cloud computing as well as the leverage that portfolio companies are achieving with cloud computing.
Anyone allowing their search engine of choice to filter through the googols of bytes of data on the Web relating to “cloud computing” has during 2008 been rewarded with an exponentially increasing number of hits. But who are the companies currently most involved and what are their current offerings? SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal zeroes in on the facts and the faces behind this white-hot Enterprise IT technology trend.
Sick of trying to justify its data retention policies to the privacy police, particularly the European privacy police, Google’s lawyers said late Monday on the company’s official blog that it was cutting the time it holds user-identifiable information from 18 months to nine. When the new policy will take effect is unclear. Google’s only making the concession because its “engineers developed methods for preserving more of the data utility while also anonymizing IP addresses sooner.”
Skytap announced the availability of an API that enables customers to blend Skytap’s cloud-based Virtual Lab platform with their existing onsite IT infrastructure. Rather than using cloud resources in a silo, Skytap’s Web services API and one-click VPN functionality allows organizations to create a “hybrid” IT model whereby cloud resources can be used as an extension of existing onsite IT environments.
Anyone allowing their search engine of choice to filter through the googols of bytes of data on the Web relating to “cloud computing” has during 2008 been rewarded with an exponentially increasing number of hits. But who are the companies currently most involved and what are their current offerings? SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal zeroes in on the facts and the faces behind this white-hot Enterprise IT technology trend.
Some of the recent bumps in public clouds are inevitable (and unenviable!) in the early stages of a new technology, but they do shine the light on the management of the data center. And, as may be obvious, the people that lost their data in one case most likely have no recourse with the holders of that data. In the case of outages, “well, gee, so sorry” is a pretty weak excuse at the moment for problems in managing the public cloud.