Archive for the 'Cloud computing' Category

More Cloud Computing Players: Akamai, VMware, OpenStack, Heroku, Twilio

Akamai
This company has been in the cloud business for ten years now. They specialize in optimizing the cloud so that the applications that run on it have a significant increase in performance. This in effect would result in a significant savings in operating cost for their clients.
Akamai began in 1995 when an efficient way of [...]

Cloud Computing Basics: Amazon, IBM, Savvis, Joyent and Google Cloud Offerings

Amazon EC 2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud began in August 2006 and is one of the most popular cloud computing companies today. They provide clients with an efficient way of scalable compute capability in the cloud. Clients can instantly scale up or scale down their compute capability based on real time demands.
Clients have various choices [...]

Cloud Computing Vendors

Cloud Computing Whitepapers
Your high school computer teach may have snapped at you for “having your head in the clouds,” but back then he or she had no idea what was in store for future of computing. If you haven’t heard about cloud computing by this point, now is the time to stop hiding under [...]

Free Cloud Computing Publications and White Papers

Free Cloud Computing Publications and White Papers
Availability and the Cloud: Cloud computing offers IT another tool to deliver applications. While enticing, challenges still exist in making sure the application is always available. F5′s flexible, unified solutions ensure high availability for cloud deployments.
Securing the Cloud: Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but [...]

Cloud Computing Companies

Free Cloud Computing White Papers
It looks like 2009 is going to be the year when cloud computing delivers on the promise of commodity computing power that is utility like, as opposed to the less friendly platforms that exist now. Sun tried to deliver with their utility computing platform, but recently closed it (or are [...]