Cloud News From Sys-Con

• Eucalyptus Hires Sales Chief
  Open source cloud peddler Eucalyptus Systems has signed up Said Ziouani as senior VP of worldwide sales. He used to be vice-president of sales, vertical markets, at Red Hat reportedly responsible for over $100 million in sales to global strategic accounts. He will now be responsible for growing the sales of Eucalyptus’ Enterprise Edition private cloudware, […]
• SAP VP to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
  SAP's Business ByDesign solution is designed to address its SME customers' specific business opportunities and challenges in building a business set up to successfully scale over time. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Prasad Akella, Vice President, SME Solution Marketing at SAP, will discuss how SAP is addressing the need for an […]
• Nimsoft to Monitor Start-Up GreenQloud
  Nimsoft, CA’s cloud resource monitoring entity, has signed up Iceland’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) start-up, GreenQloud, as a customer. GreenQloud, as its name suggests, claims to have a unique, carbon-neutral compute cloud called Truly Green that takes advantage of Iceland’s renewable hydro and geothermal energy sources – as well as its cool […]
• The Answer Is the Cloud – Now What’s the Question?
  In Lewis Carroll’s classic story “Through the Looking Glass,â€� Humpty Dumpty remarked: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.â€� It seems that the same principle applies to almost any industry expert and IT vendor when they talk about Cloud Computing. So, in an effort not to fall into the same trap as Hum […]
• InfiniteGraph Launches Program for Startups through GoGrid Cloud Hosting
  InfiniteGraph has developed an exciting new program through its cloud partner, GoGrid, to provide its technology at no cost to qualified startups. The InfiniteGraph Startup Program allows developers to build highly scalable and distributed systems and services around social networking, business intelligence, scientific research and more, at no cost beyond Go […]
• SAP to Present on Cloud Infrastructures at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
  Customers using SAP applications are looking toward virtualization and cloud technologies as well as application management tools to help increase business agility and reduce costs in the datacenter. To help customers address this challenge, SAP is currently developing enabling technology as well as management tools and value-added services to help customers […]
• Chuck Phillips Surprised To Be Out
  Who's kidding whom? Oracle co-president Chuck Phillips was fired. Not only is that utterly obvious through the thin veneer of the "resignation" twaddle Oracle handed out but a source proverbially close to the situation says he was asked for his resignation on Saturday. Reportedly Phillips was sandbagged, gulled into believing that ex-HP CEO Ma […]
• The Data-Driven Decade
  Expect a vendor slugfest on the lower end of the data warehousing and BI market in the next few years. It will be fascinating to see how these vendors will both enter the entry-level markets, while also seeking to maintain the high-end pricing for the largest users. There could be a value sweet spot in the middle. We're only in the first years of the da […]
• Cloud Computing, SOA and Windows Azure - Part 4
  The following section demonstrates the creation of a simple “Hello Worldâ€� service in a Windows Azure hosted application. Note: If you are carrying out the upcoming steps with Visual Studio 2008, you will need to be in an elevated mode (such as Administrator). A convenient way of determining whether the mode setting is correct is to press the F5 key in or […]
• VMware’s Allwyn Sequeira to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
  The massive transformation of IT, driven by virtualization and cloud computing initiatives, is compelling a rethink of the way enterprises protect their critical assets. The most critical resources are typically the applications and their data, plus their supporting systems, i.e., servers, storage and databases. Good security design employs a defensive in-de […]