Posts Tagged ‘private cloud computing’

Eucalyptus Cloud Software Supports Windows Virtual Machines

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Eucalyptus launched Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0.  This is a major upgrade to the commercial edition of the open source Eucalyptus software for private and hybrid cloud computing.

Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition 2.0 includes new support for Windows virtual machines, enabling users to integrate any application or workload running on the Windows operating system into a Eucalyptus private cloud. Eucalyptus EE 2.0 also provides new accounting and user group management features to further enhance its usability for large-scale enterprise deployments.

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“Eucalyptus EE 2.0 is built on the core Eucalyptus open source platform, with additional functionality designed to optimize building and deploying massively scalable, high performance private clouds in the enterprise,” said Marten Mickos, Eucalyptus Systems CEO. “Over the past year, Eucalyptus has become established as the standard for private cloud computing, and we believe that Eucalyptus EE 2.0 will accelerate its adoption in mainstream

businesses to improve agility and reduce IT costs using secure, controlled on-premise infrastructure.”

In the newest version Eucalyptus EE 2.0 has optimized it for highly scalable private clouds that support applications running on all major enterprise operating systems. Eucalyptus EE 2.0 Delivers Windows, User Management, VMware & SAN Storage.

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By 2014 Cloud Computing Server Sales To Reach $12.6B

Monday, May 10th, 2010

The International Data Corp (IDC) said in a report earlier today that “Server revenue for cloud computing in the public sector is projected to rise to $718 million in 2014 from $582 million in 2009.”  IDC analyst Katherine Broderick later said in a statement “Now is a great time for many IT organizations to begin seriously considering this technology and employing public and private clouds in order to simplify sprawling IT environments,” server revenue for private-sector cloud market is expected to increase to $11.8 billion from $7.3 billion in the same period, IDC said.

What does this mean for top cloud hosting providers? You estimate that out  and you see that server sales for  cloud computing are expected to jump to $12.6 billion in the next five years.  As many new companies embrace “the cloud” their cost of virtualized computing will go down, leaving room for growth.

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3PAR, First Storage Vendor to Join Cloud Security Alliance

Monday, April 26th, 2010

3PARutility using their Cloud-Agile Program for storing data across cloud servers, announced today that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member.

“3PAR’s incumbency in the global service provider market — with many of the world’s top service providers relying on 3PAR Utility Storage for their cloud-based service offerings — makes it a valuable addition to the CSA,” said Jim Reavis, founder of the Cloud Security Alliance. “In addition, experience working with enterprises and service providers on cloud security challenges through the 3PAR Cloud-Agile Program has given 3PAR specific expertise that is valuable to the alliance as we continue to develop cloud security standards and best practices.”

3PAR’s new storage tools are dynamically tiered storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing which should address the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures.

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