David S. Linthicum, a well-known pioneer in the worlds of cloud computing and service-oriented architecture, has launched Blue Mountain Labs, a company equipped to take enterprises and technology vendors into the emerging world of cloud computing. Blue Mountain Labs uses a unique methodology called Cloudsizing to analyze their clients’ business needs — thoroughly examining who they are and what they do—before they define a cloud computing solution or strategy that will work for their clients’ enterprises, large or small.
Entries from November 2008
Cloud Computing Pioneer David S. Linthicum Launches Blue Mountain Labs
November 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
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Providing Maximum Efficiency with Virtualization Technologies
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Virtualization is actively being used by Sybase IT to help solve power/cooling issues as well as transform the datacenter into an environment that brings greater benefits to their customers, especially the engineering organization. Average CPU utilization was very low on physical servers and through virtualization this has improved considerably.
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Skytap Publishes ‘Top Ten Reasons Enterprises Will Accelerate Cloud Adoption with Virtual Labs in 2009’
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Skytap has announced the ‘Top Ten Reasons Enterprises will Accelerate Cloud Adoption with Virtual Labs in 2009.’ In 2008, the momentum behind cloud computing increased with many vendors announcing solutions, including Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google AppEngine, and Rackspace Mosso. As enterprises finalize their budgets for 2009, many are now including cloud computing to achieve near-term cost reductions.
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Web Hosting for Virtual Private Server, Expanded at Crucial Paradigm
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Dallas, Texas - ( The Hosting News ) - November 26, 2008 - Shared, reseller, dedicated and managed web hosting solutions firm, Crucial Paradigm, is expanding its Virtual Private Server hosting platform portfolio of offerings. The new Virtual Private Server hosting plans introduce a variety of new high-end and entry-level VPS hosting plans designed […]
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Dedicated Server Firm, SoftLayer, Sponsors Microsoft Developer Network Event
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Dallas, Texas - ( The Hosting News ) - November 26, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, will sponsor the multi-city developer collaboration tour, by Microsoft. The Microsoft Developer Network Conference will feature single day conference events with multiple tracks. These tracks […]
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Cloud-Based Build and Test Automation Tool Now Available
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Exist has announced the availability of Maestro S+, an extension to its open source build management platform, Maestro, fortified to run integrated testing using Selenium. Leveraging Exist’s expertise in build automation and continuous integration tools such as Apache Maven and Apache Continuum, Maestro S+ provides solutions to connectivity across locations, slow overall build, test and release cycles and scalability issues.
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NTT Managed Hosting Firm, to Debut Whitepaper, at 2008 IEEE Globecom Conference
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New York, New York - ( The Hosting News ) - November 26, 2008 - NTT America, Inc. (NTTA), a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation and network integrator, hosting and web services firm, has debuted its newest network security white paper. The white paper focusing on the growing number and type of […]
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Web Hosting, VoIP Firm, Covad, Appoints New Wholesale Division General Manager
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San Jose, California - ( The Hosting News ) - November 26, 2008 - Web host and national provider of integrated voice and data communications firm, Covad Communications Group, Inc., has appointed William R. Ferraiuolo as the General Manager of the company’s Wholesale division. Patrick Bennett, President and CEO of Covad noted, ”Throughout his […]
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Cloud Hosted Desktops
November 26th, 2008 · Comments Off
It’s August 2007. VMware goes public and virtualization, in all its forms, reigns as the leading IT infrastructure megatrend. Fast forward to the summer of 2008 and virtualization is already giving way to the new king of IT media – cloud computing. All of a sudden, the conversations about how virtualization will transform existing enterprise infrastructure shift to talk about how virtualization will enable the adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise.
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Microsoft’s Sky Is Filled with Clouds
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Microsoft plans to build about 20 “super-size” cloud data centers, each with a price tag of around a billion dollars apiece, according to BusinessWeek. The magazine got it from an unnamed source. All Microsoft’s VP of global foundation services Debra Chrapaty would tell was “We’re going to reinvent the infrastructure of our industry.”
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