Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- Small-business Q&A: The cloud isn’t just pie in the sky
Houston Chronicle With cloud computing, instead of running applications and storing data on your own computer system, you rent space on a remote server where your applications and data reside. [...] it’s all about the data. Data is encrypted, and multiple servers and … (more)
- Amazon Web Services knocked offline; Observers say cloud outage raises …
FierceEnterpriseCommunications A quick-moving catastrophic storm late Friday night knocked Amazon.com’s cloud-computing platform temporarily offline and brought down with it were several of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) marquee customers’ public-facing websites. … server, which … (more)
- cloudstack 3.0 installation always hang on create system vm
secondary-status-2.bmp secondary storage status-1.bmp Our enviroment : cloudstack managent server version :CloudStack-3.0.2-1-rhel6.2 we install cloudstack … (more)
- CloudStack (OpenStack) | .:NICO-LUEDEMANN.COM:.
Quo vadis, Citrix? A Positive View of the Development of a Company. Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco has already been over now for more than four weeks … (more)
- New EU Guidelines to Address Cloud Computing
New York Times The European Commission’s privacy panel will call on companies to offer audits that assure data protection. (more)
- Why performance will help Google steal cloud customers from Amazon
GigaOM And others will no doubt use Compute Engine, even if it’s not the best thing since sliced bread, turning it into a real contender in the cloud computing space but nothing near an AWS killer. The scale and value stories are legitimate, they’re just not … (more)
- Enterprise Cloud Computing 101
Customer Think (blog) If you ask ten people to define cloud computing, you will most likely get ten different definitions. For the purpose of this post, cloud computing is defined as processing capacity, data storage and application software accessed over the Internet … (more)
- How technology companies’ financing needs can be met throughout their life
cycle Smart Business Network A lot of Software As a Service companies will be the host for the software they deploy to their customers, so buying or renting space on servers is a big expense as their customer base grows and uses more bandwidth. Where banks can help is with working … (more)
- Amazon Web Services vs OpenStack: We Need Choice
CloudTimes Rackspace’s President, Lew Moorman, has recently made a statement regarding the cloud market, basically stating that the industry needs to have an open source alternative. (more)
- Cloud Outages Show CIOs Still at Vendors’ Mercy
Wall Street Journal (blog) CIOs would like more visibility, guidance and control from cloud computing vendors. (more)
- NASA and OpenStack not lost in space — or in the cloud
A couple of weeks ago, just before GigaOM Structure (the cloud equivalent of short Indian Wedding), Twitter and the headlines rang out with the news that N. (more)