In recent months, a number of technology companies have seen their share prices rise on positive news about cloud computing initiatives. To keep up, I’ve compiled a list of publicly traded companies with a significant cloud business. I’m not going to include every company that has made a cloud announcement. If their new initiatives turn [Read More →]
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The directory has been re-designed and re-launched
January 8, 2010 — GusCloudyNews is moving to a more robust directory database. Until now, I’ve been using BizDirectory, a WordPress plug-in that was easy to get going, but it was very restrictive. It wasn’t possible to display products by category and it had no flexibility that would allow for expansion. The new directory is running out of Drupal [Read More →]
A map of the cloud computing ecosystem
November 17, 2009 — GusThe range of solutions coming on the market for cloud architectures is overwhelming. To make sense of it all, a new map is trying to put the entire universe of choices into a single Javascript app. It lays out the solutions being offered, organized by platforms from major vendors like Amazon, Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM, and [Read More →]
Survey says recession has not slowed plans for cloud projects
October 22, 2009 — GusInterest in cloud computing projects has grown by 320 percent within enterprise IT departments over the last year according to a survey by Avanade and Kelton Research. Over 500 CxO’s were surveyed in August and September and they showed a strong interest in cloud projects.
Among the findings:
23 percent of U.S. companies are beginning to plan [Read More →]
Wikipedia: Cloud Computing
August 22, 2009 — GusFirst paragraph of Wikipedia’s lengthy article on Cloud Computing…
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the Internet.[1][2] Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the “cloud” that supports them.[3] Cloud computing services often provide common business applications online [Read More →]
SearchCloudComputing: What is cloud computing?
May 21, 2009 — DorothyFrom TechTarget’s dictionary of technical terms…
Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The name cloud computing was inspired by the cloud symbol that’s often used to represent the Internet in flow [Read More →]
IDC: Defining “Cloud Services” and “Cloud Computing”
September 23, 2008 — DorothyInternational Data Corp.’s research analysts have been following cloud services in their practice. At the analysts’ blog, they summarized some of their findings..
As a company that makes its living analyzing, sizing and forecasting market opportunities, IDC takes market definitions and taxonomies very seriously. We’re pretty good at distinguishing real markets from hypey ones,
well as articulating [Read More →]
