Cloud Computing Magazine

SYS-CON Events announced today that Geoff Tudor, Co-Founder and Senior VP of Strategy & Business Development for Nirvanix, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe (www.cloudexpo-europe.com) May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, the first industry-leading international Cloud Computing event outside the USA. His session will be entitled "The Benefits of Cloud Storage." Geoff Tudor is Co-Founder & Sr. VP of Strategy & Business Development at Nirvanix. He most recently served as CEO of Advent Networks, Inc. At Advent, he created the cable industry's first... (more)

IBM Helps with Social Networking

Addressing the rapid pace of information technology transformation across all industries, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new social technology enhancements to developerWorks, to help software developers more easily work together on open standards-based innovations. While developers have access to a wide variety of IT resources scattered across the Web, many are struggling to maximize thei... (more)

Amazon Offers Schools Free Use of Cloud

Amazon is offering universities free use of its cloud for research, advanced courses and possible new projects under a new AWS in Education program. Its eye on eventually replacing conventional academic investments in infrastructure, it's offering grants of $100 per student applicable to the use of its AWS infrastructure services in eligible courses at accredited universities. Amazon says ... (more)

Building Private and Hybrid Clouds with Ubuntu 9.04

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) has been released today bringing highly interesting new features, specially in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization area. The new Ubuntu server distribution includes two complementary cloud tools, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus, so providing the technology required to build the three types of Cloud architectures, namely private, hybrid and public clouds. Euca... (more)