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Nimbula Raises Another $15 Million in Funding

Nimbula, one of the LaunchPad finalists in this year’s Structure conference, today said that it has secured $15 million in funding from Accel Partners. The funding is set to continue Nimbula’s investment in hybrid cloud computing technologies but also to fund sales and marketing efforts in order to gain greater market adoption.   Founded by [...]

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Cloud.com bear hugs VMware vSphere

Cloud.com – the outfit that offers a platform for transforming your existing data center setup into a so-called infrastructure cloud – has introduced support for VMware's vSphere 4.1 hypervisor and its accompanying vCenter management console. The CloudStack platform already dovetails with other hypervisors, including open source mainstays Xen and KVM. "You'll be able to go [...]

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Cloud offers speedy path to business innovation, report says

Computerworld – Cloud computing isn't just a way to try to save money on IT infrastructure; it's a way to accelerate business agility and innovation, according to a recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Traditional, rigid IT infrastructures get in the way of innovation because they take months or years to deploy when a business decides to [...]

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Novell Now Offers SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 & 11 on Amazon Web Services

BOSTON, Aug. 12 – LinuxCon – Novell today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will offer hourly based pricing and support for SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server. Customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) of all sizes will have the ability to run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) [...]

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Telcos Will Be Big in Cloud Computing

Telcos Will Be Big in Cloud Computing

AT&T, BT, Orange Business Services and Verizon Business (News – Alert)have "can now compete with established players from the IT industry" in the cloud computing arena, say researchers at Ovum.  “The major telcos have a long heritage in providing managed data center services and hosting and have combined this with their networking and security expertise to [...]

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