Monthly Archives: April 2011

CenturyLink Acquires Savvis for $2.5 billion

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Telecom giant CenturyLink has decided to acquire Savvis for $2.5 billion in a move that signals early consolidation within the cloud computing industry. CenturyLink announced a deal whereby Savvis stock would be acquired for $40/share or 11% above the April … Continue reading →

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Rackspace executives invest in Encoding.com

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Rackspace co-founder, Patrick Condon, and its CTO, John Engates, contributed to a $2 million Series B funding raise for Encoding.com led by Metamorphic Ventures. Encoding.com provides enterprises with the ability to encode videos into a number of online and mobile … Continue reading →

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Sony PlayStation Network outage continues as a result of “external intrusion”

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Sony PlayStation’s cloud computing network experienced significant downtime starting on April 21. The outage affected Sony’s PlayStation Network and its Qriocity music service. Sony PlayStation’s cloud based environment allows users to download and use online games, music, videos and movies. … Continue reading →

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Why Amazon’s Cloud Computing Outage Didn’t Violate Its SLA

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Amazon’s cloud computing outage on April 21 and April 22 can be interpreted in one of two ways: (1) either the outage constitutes a reflection on Amazon’s EC2 platform and its processes for disaster recovery situations; or (2) the outage … Continue reading →

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Toyota Plans to Leverage Microsoft Azure for Telematics Services Focused Around Energy Management

Posted on April 16, 2011 by

Microsoft Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation’s announcement that the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform will host telematics applications for Toyota’s electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles marks an important step in the battle for enterprise market share amongst the top cloud … Continue reading →

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Google plans overhaul of YouTube to compete with Netflix

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Google is planning a major overhaul of YouTube that will enable it to provide streaming full length television and video content. The Mountain View search engine giant has reportedly allocated $100 million for the initiative to acquire content, finalize licensing … Continue reading →

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Quotes from conference call between Dell’s Steve Schuckenbrock and Sanford Bernstein

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

Select Quotes from Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell Services (April 5, 2011): “You know the demand for IT and the torque frankly in the system for CIOs, when you balance the huge demand for efficiency with really sort of unprecedented … Continue reading →

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Dell announces plans to invest $1 billion in cloud computing

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

Dell announced it plans to spend $1 billion in cloud computing products and services over the next fiscal year in an attempt to gain market share in an environment currently dominated by Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Rackspace and HP. Over … Continue reading →

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