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Linux Vendor Red Hat Slips into the OpenStack Cloud Community

February 1, 2012 — A really interesting Monday post by Joe Brockmeier on ReadWriteWeb points out that open source giant Red Hat, while it declined to participate in the community around open source cloud computing platform OpenStack, citing problems with the governance model and, later, reservations about the activity of participants, has been quietly contributing to the project.

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ScaleMatrix Opens 50,000 Square Foot Data Center in San Diego

August 17, 2011 — Cloud hosting and colocation provider ScaleMatrix announced on Tuesday that it has opened a 50,000 square foot data center in San Diego, California. ScaleMatrix has access to 11 additional data centers throughout the country through a partnership with Forsythe. According to the press release, the facility will create more than a hundred new jobs in the region.

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Cloud Host ElasticHosts Updates its ElasticStack Cloud Platform Tool

July 28, 2011 — ElasticStack released version 2 of its cloud software platform on Thursday, addressing both scalability and hardware cost, which the company says makes it a good solution for web hosting providers looking to compete with Amazon EC2 or Rackspace cloud servers.

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UK Web Host DediPower Launches New Mobile Apps

February 24, 2011 – UK Web hosting provider DediPower announced on Wednesday that it is launching new iPhone and Android mobile apps to enable convenience for its cloud and managed hosting customers.

Irish Cloud Firm Dediserve Buys Web Host AventureHost

November 8, 2010 — Irish cloud hosting provider Dediserve announced last week via its blog it has acquired Belfast-based hosting firm AventureHost for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is predicted to bring Dediserve’s annual revenue to $1.4 million by 2011. AventureHost has been trading for seven years and is the second largest hosting firm in Northern Ireland. The acquisition is part of Dediserve’s strategy to develop a strong position in the UK cloud computing market.

Cloud Hosting: The lean, Thin and Green IT environment

Cloud hosting technology is the next big thing that has happened to the Information technology scenario and it has transformed the way enterprises and individual access IT services. But nowhere is this more visible than the small and medium enterprises. The reasons are not far to find. In all aspects, whether it be IT infrastructure …Read More

Fujitsu Unveils Global Cloud Strategy, Deploys Global Platform

April 23, 2010 — Technology services and solutions provider Fujitsu has launched its global cloud strategy, rooted in Fujitsu’s view of cloud computing as having four modes of consumption: infrastructure, application, activity and content. Customers will be offered non-disruptive ways of joining any, some or all of the four modes.

IT cloud | what exactly is IT cloud hosting services?

IT cloud or the cloud hosting services refers to a platform formed by the juxtaposition of technologies like virtual computing, distributed computing, and flexible networking processes. Thus IT cloud is better conceptualized as a service architecture where in IT infrastructure, software and even application platforms are offered as a service.nNeed for cloud computing arises for …Read More

Fujitsu Debuts PRIMERGY CX1000 Cloud Computing Platform

March 18, 2010 — With the promise of revolutionizing data center economics, technology provider Fujitsu has launched the PRIMERGY Cloud eXtension server, a new massive server that the company said provides unprecedented levels of scale-out capability, and is ideal for cloud computing environments.

eUKhost Launches Cloud VPS Hosting with 100 Percent Uptime SLA

February 8, 2010 — After thorough testing, UK web hosting provider eUKhost has launched its new Cloud VPS Hosting service, powered by its new cloud environment that is based on VMware virtualization platform.