Tag Archives: cloud computing

IBM Acquires Green Hat, Cloud Based Software Testing Company

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

IBM announced its first acquisition of 2012 on Wednesday by purchasing Green Hat, the software quality and testing company based in Wilmington, Delaware and London, England. Green Hat delivers a cloud based testing environment that enables developers to test software … 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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Rackspace Targets Startups With its Rackspace Startup Program

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

Rackspace formally announced a program designed to target start-up companies as customers for its cloud computing products and services on March 11. Titled the “Rackspace Startup Program,” the strategy makes available Rackspace’s cloud computing offering to startups that are part … Continue reading →

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The Case for Cloud Computing in Large Scale Enterprises

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

With IT budgets increasingly stretched thin, CIOs in large scale enterprises are considering cloud computing because it offers an alternative to data centers containing expensive servers that need to be constantly maintained by expensive technicians and periodically replaced. Alongside IT … Continue reading →

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Company Profile: Joyent and Application Virtualization

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

Joyent is a cloud computing vendor based in San Francisco. Founded by David Young (CEO) and David Hoffman (Chief Scientist) in 2004, Joyent is an Infrastructure as a Service vendor whose business model targets large scale enterprises, particularly in the … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services and the Large Scale Enterprise Space

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

In a December 2010 article titled “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting”, Gartner positioned Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a visionary within its Magic Quadrant in the Cloud Computing Space. Within the “Visionary” category, Amazon … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services (AWS): A Brief Introduction

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Although Amazon.com began as an online retailer of books in 1995, it was not until 2002 that it entered the market for technology services with its Amazon Web Services (AWS) product. Today, Amazon Web Services is most pertinently known for … Continue reading →

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