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February 16, 2010  9:20 PM

Two free cloud beta services to check out



Posted by: JoMaitland
Cloud storage, Nasuni, Silverline, Spot instances

Cloud computing services are popping up like daises these days. The good part is many of them are launching with a free beta service, which means you can try before you buy and more importantly, get some valuable experience with cloud-based IT services. The first one to check out is an...

December 4, 2008  6:13 AM

Cloud computing, are you in or out?



Posted by: Rick Vanover
Amazon EC2, Cloud storage, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Storage, Virtualization

While the cloud is a new dimension of technology that IT managers and administrators will bake into the technology landscape, we have to make one fundamental decision: will the technology be in our out of our traditional data centers? This is a loaded question in regards to policy, security,...


November 10, 2008  5:12 PM

EMC takes wraps off Atmos cloud plans



Posted by: JoMaitland
cloud computing, Cloud storage, EMC Atmos

EMC Corp. says that it has a handful of Web 2.0 service providers using its new Atmos cloud-optimized storage (COS) product, but none that were ready to discuss it today. So for now, Atmos is an interesting technology...


November 3, 2008  2:54 PM

Rackable Systems CloudRack designed for cloud computing



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
cloud computing, Cloud storage, CloudRack, DataCenter, Rackable Systems

Fremont, Calif.-based Rackable Systems, Inc. is catering to cloud computing environments with a new server rack designed specifically for cloud environments called Systems CloudRack,...


October 29, 2008  6:12 PM

Cloud storage: What a difference a decade makes



Posted by: Alex Barrett
cloud computing, Cloud storage, Nirvanix, Rackspace, The Planet

When it comes to all the varieties of cloud services out there, cloud storage gets a lot of love from hosting providers such as RackSpace and the Planet, which have both made...


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