Cloud News From Sys-Con

• Taleo Buys Learn.com for $125m
  Taleo, the SaaS-based talent agency that just put ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on its board, is buying its SaaS strategic partner Learn.com for $125 million cash to expand its cloud offering, thinking it will be “the world’s largest vertical cloud provider.â€� It says it will make Taleo the only public vendor to offer software across the four critical co […]
• Belgacom’s Hosting Unit Falls to AccelOps
  AccelOps, the three-year-old start-up that monitors data centers, networks and clouds with software delivered either SaaS or as a virtual appliance, has enticed Belgacom ICT, the old Belgian PTT’s pan-European IT arm, into its fold. Belgacom means to use the stuff for its 200 hosted commercial IT services customers. AccelOps, which baby-sits service, perfo […]
• Like “APIâ€� Is “Storage Tierâ€� Redefining Itself?
  There is an interesting bit in high-tech that isn’t much mentioned but happens pretty regularly – when a good idea is adapted and moved to new uses, raising it a bit in the stack or revising it to keep up with the times. The quintessential example of this phenomenon is the progression from “subroutinesâ€� to “librariesâ€� to “frameworksâ€� to “AP […]
• VMworld 2010 Virtual Roads, Clouds and INXS Devil Inside
  This past week I spent a few days in San Francisco attending the VMworld 2010 event which included a Wednesday evening concert with the Australian band INXS. Despite some long lines (or queues) waiting to get into sessions, keynotes or lunch resulting in delays reminiscent of trying to put too many virtual machines (VMs) onto a given number of physical machi […]
• Storm Clouds: Disruptive Technologies Create “New Normal,â€� Dispel Myths
  As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including Physical Infrastructure, Virtualization, Automation, Service Management, and Secur […]
• An Open Cloud Ecosystem - the Gathering Storm
  The last decade saw the growth of Virtualization from its humble beginnings as a developer tool to its increasing adoption in data centers worldwide. It dramatically improved resilience, scalability, portability and utilization, and became one of the key foundations of the Cloud. But the story is only just beginning... In his keynote at Cloud Expo Prague, Pe […]
• F5 Friday: Elastic Applications are Enabled by Dynamic Infrastructure
  You really can’t have the one without the other. VMware enables the former, F5 provides the latter. The use of public cloud computing as a means to expand compute capacity on-demand, a la during a seasonal or unexpected spike in traffic, is often called cloud bursting and we’ve been talking about it (at least in the hypothetical sense) for some time now. […]
• Verizon Builds Hybrid Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter
  Verizon, which is really into this cloud business – against the day when phones as we know them evaporate into the ether – and so means to have clouds for everybody eventually, has added to its very high-end, mission-critical, totally handheld public cloud of last year. It’s taken VMware’s Datacenter widgetry and built a somewhat lower-end hybrid clo […]
• VMworld2010: Interview with Yankee Group’s Zeus Kerravala
  I get some analyst insight during this informative interview with Zeus Kerravala, Sr. VP of Research, of Yankee Group. Zeus discusses virtualization, networking, VMworld, F5 Networks and many other topics surrounding Cloud Computing. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application de […]
• Why the Time Is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing
  You may be reluctant to move your enterprise application workloads to the cloud, fearing a lack of security, compliance issues such as data location regulations, and having to rewrite your applications. In his keynote at Cloud Expo Prague, Sam Gross, Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, discussed the latest technologies an […]