(click image for larger view)Amazon on Tuesday announced the release of cloud services aimed specifically at U.S. government users and contractors, joining a growing list of cloud service providers including Microsoft and Google that also have modified their cloud services to meet the unique needs of government. According to Amazon, the new offering, Amazon Web…
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VMware disrupting the Cloud market with Cloud Foundry – SYS
Ernest de Leon was pleasantly surprised with the newly announced Cloud Foundry from VMware. Cloud Foundry is “a VMware-led project [that] is the world’s first open Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Cloud Foundry provides a platform for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Spring for Java developers, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby…
OpenCompute and OpenStack Span Hardware and Software Cloud Infrastructure and …
by Jeevak Kasarkod Last week Facebook launched OpenCompute in collaboration with OpenStack with the goal of building energy efficient computing infrastructures at a low cost. Yesterday OpenStack announced the Cactus release which includes API extensions, improved features and support for enterprise technologies to enable larger scale cloud deployments. In a separate announcement, GigaSpaces in collaboration with…