AbiCloud from Abiquo

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Last month Abiquo announced the release of their “abiCloud”, an open source cloud computing platform for allowing companies to create and manage large, complex IT infrastructures (virtual servers, networks, applications, storage…) in a quick, simple and scalable way.
We had a chat with
Diego Mariño, Co-founder & CEO of
Abiquo , he told us that
one [...]

5May2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

InformationWeek’s Chief of the Year for 2008: Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO)

Amazon’s 50-year-old CTO Werner Vogels has emerged as the right person at the right time and place to guide cloud computing - until now, an emerging technology for early adopters - into the mainstream. He not only understands how to architect a global computing cloud consisting of tens of thousands of servers, but also how to engage CTOs, CIOs, and other professionals at customer companies in a discussion of how that architecture could potentially change the way they approach IT.

23Dec2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Rackspace Acquires Cloud Providers Slicehost And Jungle Disk

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Rackspace Hosting today
announced it has acquired privately owned VPS provider
Slicehost, and storage provider
Jungle Disk. (hat tip to
TechCrunch)
The purchase price of the combined acquisitions is approximately $11.5 million payable in cash and stock, with the potential for up to $16.5 million in additional payouts of cash and stock based on certain performance criteria.
Rackspace [...]

22Oct2008 | Lode Vermeiren | 0 comments | Continued

CohesiveFT Adds Elastic Server Support for Amazon EC2

Tomorrow, CohesiveFT, makers of the Elastic Server platform, will announce support for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) large, extra-large and high-CPU instances.

25Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

ELASTRA Adds Support for Eucalyptus Platform

ELASTRA, which recently raised $12 million from Amazon and other investors, today announced Elastra Cloud Server support for the Eucalyptus platform.

20Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Virtualization.com Contest: Guess What’s on Werner Vogels’ Mind and Win A Book

Guess what Werner Vogels has written in O’Reilly’s “Programming Amazon Web Services S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB” book, and maybe you’ll get it for free!

31Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | Continued