Infrastructure On Demand

Barb Darrow recently published one of the latest opinions on HP’s long-term strategy in the wake of fresh announcements around the HP cloud coming out of beta. Darrow doesn’t outright slam the tech giant but I detect a slight snicker or two. Marred by some serious write downs after getting the shaft in two big acquisition deals, questions are no doubt coming from all angles at HP.   However, we should not be so quick to toss the HP baby out with the cloud bath water. I for one am quite bullish about the prospects of HP in a utility computing world. My outlook for HP is a little rosier than most because I see the cloud for what it really is:  the underlying IT infrastructure utility for the next great commodity market. From my perspective any company with the capability to see straight into the design, manufacture and delivery of compute, network and storage infra... (more)

CloudSigma's Membership to The Linux Foundation Reinforces its Position as a Customer-Centric Public Cloud Provider

Zurich, Switzerland - November 9, 2012 - CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has joined The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. CloudSigma's membership to The Linux Foundation not only confirms the company's commitment to maintaining a flexible and user-centric cloud offering, but also as an open source technology supporter and Linux cloud IaaS provider. With its open software layer, CloudSigma allows customers to easily install and ru... (more)

10gen & SoftLayer Tie Up on MongoDB

10gen, the company commercializing MongoDB, and SoftLayer, the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider in the world, have just launched MongoDB Cloud Subscriptions. It's a unique pay-as-you-go managed cloud subscription pushing certified pre-engineered and orchestrated MongoDB systems through a highly scalable, automated cloud platform. The idea is to make the open source NoSQL database more available through the push-button provisioning of high-performance, production-grade, highly scalable clusters at SoftLayer's portal or API. It's supposed to be easy to ... (more)

Asigra Backs Up All Data End-to-End Even in the Cloud

Asigra, the Toronto-based cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider, just unveiled Asigra Cloud Backup v12, a secure, single end-to-end data protection software suite that protects data across physical, virtualized and cloud operating environments. It claims the widgetry is the first and only backup solution to back up all enterprise data into a single repository - that means physical and virtual environments, everything from servers and storage to desktops and on to endpoint devices - laptops, tablets and smartphones as well as databases, enterprise apps and c... (more)

Cloud Brokers: The eHarmony of Cloud Infrastructure?

A long-lived match made in the cloud will require more detail than providers and brokers are currently offering Buried in blogs around the Internets are references to a research survey conducted by research firm ESG earlier this year on behalf of VMware. While obtaining the full contents require more than my meager pockets contain, the summary data held several nuggets of gold, among them this one on compatibility across cloud and on-premise infrastructure: Importance of compatibility: 78% of respondents reported that it was also important that their cloud service providers’ infr... (more)