KT, né Korea Telecom, has launched a public cloud that beats Amazon Web Service on price and performance. Additional performance testing also shows that the new service, called ucloud Compute Service (ucloud CS) also beat Rackspace, GoGrid, and Terremark on a number of benchmark tests including CPU, disk, programming language, memory I/O, and encoding performance. KT built ucloud CS with the help of Cloudscaling, a California-based outfit that specializes in building really big clouds using co...Dec. 23, 2010 10:26 PM EST Reads: 257
Companies today are looking to do more with less, while finding new ways to meet growing business demand. Cloud computing is being touted as the cure-all but means many things to many people.
In his general session at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, VMware Group Manager Neela Jacques explored how companies are evolving their virtualized infrastructures to deliver many of the benefits of proprietary public clouds, without many of the downsides – by building focused Private Clouds and leveraging Publ...
Want to go beyond the marketing hype, the brands and the buzzwords, and learn how differences in architecture, infrastructure, security and design can have significant impact on your ability to take advantage of the cost-effectiveness and agility of infrastructure-as-a-service without compromise to availability, performance and compliance?
In his general session at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Chris Drumgoole, Terremark Senior Vice President of Client Services, presented a practical guide to eval...
The difference between cloud and dedicated solutions might not be as big as you think. In many ways, hosting providers delivered the cloud before it was even called that. And even as the cloud has taken on more specific definition, its greatest future is not in further differentiation but in greater integration. A cloud service’s value increases exponentially when, instead of a standalone solution, it seamlessly integrates with dedicated servers and systems. That way, its high flexibility and co...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptivity, the IT Blueprint Company, has been named “Platinum Plus Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 8th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York, New York.
Adaptivity, the IT Blueprint Company, is changing the design and delivery of Enterprise IT as we know it. Adaptivity’s Blueprint4IT Lifecycle Suite allows companies to reduce IT execution risk and more effectively and efficiently satisfy business IT demand. ...
Office 365 is the future of productivity and is the latest cloud service from Microsoft for organizations. Just as Office defines desktop productivity for millions around the world, Office 365 will define cloud productivity for the next generation of workers. In his keynote at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Eron Kelly provided a clear understanding of what is coming in this great new service, partner opportunities, and the overall roadmap.
Eron Kelly is the Senior Director of Product Management for...
Innovation LiveWIRE: This article provides a complete blueprint for designing Enterprise Cloud Outsourcing services. The primary objective of our Cloud Best Practices group (CloudBestPractices.net) is to establish a feedback loop between real-world client requirements and our expertise production process, to develop solutions and services directly in-line with client needs. For example we’re analyzing RFPs from [...]
The golden question in the Cloud computing industry is what role will outsourcing providers play. Enterprise customers adopting lots of Private Cloud is an internal function, it does nothing to stimulate procurement from third-party outsourcing suppliers. The Inter-Cloud One key answer is ‘Inter-Cloud Peering’: Gateway services to inter-connect these private clouds. 
Is there hard ROI to use a cloud IaaS instead of a server in your garage/basement/on-premise datacenter? I think there increasingly is and justifying self-hosting is getting increasingly tough. I would actually go as far as posit that you can now get a server in a public datacenter at price comparable to your electricity bill alone! If [...]
Amazon has announced another important tool in their ongoing platform innovation for EC2 – the VM Import tool. This converter allows you to “bring your VMware images to the cloud.” As we’ve seen extensively at CloudSwitch, this is a primary use case for most enterprises – the ability to take images you’ve already built (likely in VMware) and migrate them into the cloud. It’s great to see Amazon continue to innovate around these gaps in their offering, as this continues to drive the overall marke...
We're probably past early adopter and more into mainstream. I anticipate it will continue to grow and gain momentum.
We are seeing a lot of interest in the market today for SaaS and cloud. I think it’s an extension of what we've seen over the last decade, of companies looking at ways that they can drive the most efficiency from their IT budgets. And as they are faced especially in these trying economics times of trying to do as much as they can, they're looking for ways to optimize on their inv...
First, there was One Tier, and it was good. Back in the eighties, there was one mainframe and users’ dumb terminals were connecting this one and only Big Iron. These 3270 terminals were called dumb because they had only a keyboard and a monitor. No CPU. It was simply an I/O device.
Two Tiers. Thanks to Bill Gates, PC’s with their own CPUs came to masses, and in the end of 80th and early 90th I was developing Client-Server applications with fat clients – part of the calculations was done locally...
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