Amazon Web Services is starting up a new unit focused on getting the Fortune 2000/mid-market segment to adopt its widgetry.
According to Network World, it has also raided VMware for the guy who’s going to be its VP of worldwide commercial sales, Mike Clayville.
Clayville has been VP of product marketing for VMware’s cloud infrastructure offerings for the last year having previously been VP of North American sales.
What’s still unclear is whether Amazon means to chase after VMware’s private cloud business while VMware tries to step on Amazon’s toes and go into the public cloud business.
Cloud Expo NY Interview
Thoughts on cloud, Cloud Technology Partners, and PaaSLane
Cloud Expo NY Interview
Thoughts on cloud, Cloud Technology Partners, and PaaSLane
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Protecting Data in the Cloud
“Intrinsic-ID is a spin-off of the security experts team of Philips Research, and we bring here Saturnus, a secure cloud application that protects data in the cloud,” stated Tony Picard, VP of Business Development at Intrinsic-ID, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Google Apps Status Sorta Takes Responsibility for Today’s Outage
From the Apps Status Dashboard:
7/10/13 10:40 AM
The problem with Gmail should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.
The affected users were located in West Virginia, North Carolina, Nebraska & Georgia
Same message repeated for basically all services.
It’s a little vague and incomplete. Was it Comcast (other services were also down and they ALL came back at once here in Florida)? Or was it actually Google?
Breaking: And We’re Back (Comcast Outage)
As of 10:39 am today (Eastern Time) Comcast has apparently fixed a problem and we can get to all sorts of sites we couldn’t for the last several hours.
Comcast the preferred villain of course (over Google, God forbid!)
How about you?
Voonami Embraces Disruptive Solid State Technology from Tegile Systems
In an era where reliable and scalable computer resources are like air and water to data-centric businesses and the time and cost of building in-house data centers are prohibitive for most businesses, Salt Lake City-based Voonami has developed a strong market position for outsourced data center services with a broad portfolio of services, everything from cloud computing, colocation, managed services, hosting and VOIP. The company focuses on performance and a commitment to disruptive technologies to help it stay a step ahead of the competition and deliver added value to customers.
Voonami’s newest data center is the greenest facility of its kind in Utah and it demonstrates the company’s innovative thinking in pursuing unconventional solutions to maximizing its value proposition for customers. Building out the new data center, Voonami harnessed the climate of Utah to design an environmental cooling system that enables the data center to run 98% of the time without using the power-hungry chillers that are typically required to keep data center operating temperatures at a safe level and slashing energy costs by as much as 80%.
Voonami Embraces Disruptive Solid State Technology from Tegile Systems
In an era where reliable and scalable computer resources are like air and water to data-centric businesses and the time and cost of building in-house data centers are prohibitive for most businesses, Salt Lake City-based Voonami has developed a strong market position for outsourced data center services with a broad portfolio of services, everything from cloud computing, colocation, managed services, hosting and VOIP. The company focuses on performance and a commitment to disruptive technologies to help it stay a step ahead of the competition and deliver added value to customers.
Voonami’s newest data center is the greenest facility of its kind in Utah and it demonstrates the company’s innovative thinking in pursuing unconventional solutions to maximizing its value proposition for customers. Building out the new data center, Voonami harnessed the climate of Utah to design an environmental cooling system that enables the data center to run 98% of the time without using the power-hungry chillers that are typically required to keep data center operating temperatures at a safe level and slashing energy costs by as much as 80%.
Dell Gets More Support for Privatization
No sooner had Michael Dell and Silver Lake gotten the go-ahead for their takeover scheme from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) Monday than Glass Lewis and Egan-Jones, the two other important if not quite as influential proxy advisors, fell into line behind ISS and advised Dell shareholders to take the money and run.
Breaking: Is Google Outage Actually a Comcast Issue?
Many reporting Google down but using an online proxy to originate the web request elsewhere works fine.
This reporter is in Florida on Comcast. Might be a regional Comcast issue.