HP is having another crack at cloud computing, announcing that from May 10th it will progressively roll out an infrastructure, then platform as a service public cloud. It will couple this with tools to allow enterprises to build their own internal clouds, and offer a range of managed cloud services.
EMC (NYSE: EMC) is enhancing and expanding its Velocity Service Provider Program. The changes, effectively Jan. 1, 2013, could help (A) VARs to transform into cloud services providers and/or (B) VARs to find partners that offer EMC-certified cloud storage services. So, how many VARs will embrace the initiative?
Members of the cloud computing industry this week announced the Open Cloud Initiative, a non-profit organization to advocate open standards in cloud computing, at the OSCON 2011 open source convention in Portland, Ore. The organization maintains a set of Open Cloud Principles, adherence to which will determine whether a given product or service can indeed bear the open cloud label.
AT&T wants to break into the cloud storage business with their new AT&T Locker service, a cloud-based file storage that’s marketed as an easy way to share your personal files. The service is available only to AT&T customers and offers features and pricing fairly similar to Dropbox and Google Drive.
PeakColo, an enterprise-class IaaS cloud service provider for channel partners, has partnered with data center services provider NYI, to expand its VMware (NYSE: VMW) vCloud-based services platform into the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area.
PeakColo’s channel partners white label its cloud services as their own, enabling them to sell under their own brand at minimal expense and making it
A newly rechristened Cloud.com on Tuesday unveiled its CloudStack Platform, an integrated software solution that lets enterprises and service providers quickly and easily build, manage and deploy Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing solutions.
A newly rechristened Cloud.com on Tuesday unveiled its CloudStack Platform, an integrated software solution that lets enterprises and service providers quickly and easily build, manage and deploy Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing solutions.
VMware (NYSE: VMW) this week launched a hybrid cloud strategy — which will ultimately include a public cloud that competes with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, Rackspace, and other cloud services providers (CSPs). The big question: Should VMware’s own CSP partners be concerned? The VAR Guy votes no.
Sources have told GigaOM that Google will likely be launching a cloud services platform next week at Google I/O to compete with Amazon’s EC2 and Microsoft’s Azure services.
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