Monthly Archives: May 2011

LibCloud and DeltaCloud Lead the Charge Toward Cloud Inter-Operability

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

Apache LibCloud’s May 19 graduation from the Apache Incubator signifies that the race toward cloud inter-operability is firmly underway. Libcloud provides an open source Python library of back-end drivers that enables developers to connect to APIs of over 20 cloud … Continue reading →

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Top 3 Cloud Computing Market Trends for 2011

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

2011 has been an extraordinary year for cloud computing so far. Amazon Web Services (AWS) set the pace with an aggressive roll-out of products such as Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, Amazon Cloud Player and Amazon Cloud Drive. Just when AWS seemed … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing Law and the Co-Implication of Amazon Web Services with the Sony PlayStation Outage

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

Last week’s report by Bloomberg that the outage on the PlayStation Network was caused by a hacker using Amazon Web Services’s EC2 platform raises interesting questions in the newly emerging field of cloud computing law. Can Amazon Web Services be … Continue reading →

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Google’s Blogger tight lipped about reasons for outage as service is restored

Posted on May 13, 2011 by

Google’s Blogger service experienced a major outage on Thursday May 12 that continued until service was finally restored on Friday, May 13 at 1030 AM PDT. Users were unable to log-in to the dashboard that enables bloggers to publish and … Continue reading →

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Red Hat Enters IaaS and PaaS Space with CloudForms and OpenShift

Posted on May 8, 2011 by

At its May 2010 summit in Boston, Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced the launch of CloudForms and OpenShift, two products that represent the company’s boldest entrance into the cloud computing space so far. CloudForms … Continue reading →

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The Amazon Web Services Outage: A Brief Explanation

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

On Friday, April 29, 2011, Amazon Web Services issued an apology and detailed technical explanation of the outage that affected its US-1 East Region from April 21, 1 AM PDT to April 24, 730 PM PDT. A complete description of … Continue reading →

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