Recent Posts Tagged With 'cloud computing'

• Don’t Trust Your Computer.. Or Anyone Else’s

  Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 00:41 in performance, cloud computing, tech trends

  Last week was a bad week for tech people all over the world. There were outages reported at several major datacenter providers, including the likes of Rackspace, Equinix, and Google. As any good system administrator will tell you, what goes up will c...

• Why Windows Needs ‘the Cloud’ To Fail

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 19:02 in Microsoft, Linux, cloud computing, tech trends

  Buzzwords and hype aside, the world is moving towards a web-based future. This future inevitably means that our workstations are no longer our “application servers”, but we are starting to shift that responsibility and that management int...

• Red Hat CEO: Significant Barriers in Switching to Linux on the Desktop

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 00:22 in Linux, cloud computing, tech trends

  Yesterday at the Open Source Business Conference, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst shared his thoughts on why Linux on the desktop is irrelevant to Red Hat. Whitehurst says that financial reasons as well as practical reasons are barriers to the market for ...

• Ubuntu 9.10 Server to Focus on Cloud Computing

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 00:16 in news, ubuntu, amazon, cloud computing

  Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu foundation, announced today the plans for Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”. The server version will focus on developments both in the Amazon EC2 cloud as well as allowing users to build their own ela...

• Sun Builds Its Own Cloud

  Posted on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 09:22 in news, sun, cloud computing

  Sun announced yesterday at SugarCRM’s SugarCon that it is building its own cloud computing platform to compete with Amazon’s EC2 offerings. Sun sees adding a hosted computing platform as a great business opportunity for the suffering comp...

• Microsoft Enters Cloud Computing Game

  Posted on Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 22:30 in Microsoft, cloud computing

  In true Microsoft style, Microsoft has finally (almost) entered the cloud computing arena with its new Windows Azure services. Azure’s offerings are similar to the Google App Engine in that they are storage and processing services rather making...

• Windows on EC2

  Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 15:59 in Microsoft, amazon, windows server, cloud computing

  Amazon has announced support for Windows Server and MS SQL Server running in EC2 coming this fall. The announcement came the same day that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the coming of Windows ‘Cloud’. This functionality was availab...

• Ballmer Talks of Rumored ‘Windows Cloud’

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 16:05 in Microsoft, midori, cloud computing

  Steve Ballmer talked yesterday in London about a new ‘Windows Cloud’ OS that will be announced later this month. The OS has been alluded to in the past as being code named ‘Red Dog’. The OS will be based upon the Windows Serve...

• Stallman Rips Cloud Computing

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 00:49 in software as a service, free software foundation, richard stallman, cloud computing, tech trends

  GNU and Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman last week was quoted in an interview saying that cloud computing was “beyond stupidity”. Stallman has cited potential price increases, loss of control, loss of privacy, and vendor ...