by Lydia Leong | February 4, 2009 | Comments Off
A few tidbits of cloud computing in the press… Sun announces plans for a cloud computing service. No details until March, other than a ZDnet interview comment about delivering SaaS and SaaS infrastructure. Rackspace puts its own spin on cloud. Rackspace now has a “cloud 101″ page, most interesting for the results of a recent [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, news
by Lydia Leong | January 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Another news round-up, themed around “competitive fracas”. Joyent buys Reasonably Smart. Cloud hoster Joyent has picked up Reasonably Smart, a tiny start-up with an APaaS offering based, unusually enough, on JavaScript and the Git version-control system. GigaOM has an analysis; I’ll probably post my take later, once I get a better idea of exactly what [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, hosting, news
by Lydia Leong | January 9, 2009 | Comments Off
A handful of quick news-ish takes: Amazon has released the beta of its EC2 management console. This brings point-and-click friendliness to Amazon’s cloud infrastructure service. A quick glance through the interface makes it clear that effort was made to make it easy to use, beginning with big colorful buttons. My expectation is that a lot [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, CDN, net neutrality, news
