Introducing Company Profiles: Highlighting Today's Cloud Computing Leaders

Cloud computing is defined as much by the companies delivering these new services, as it is by technology or anything else. Our company profiles highlight the leaders in this emerging market, with new ones added weekly.

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Cloud Computing: What everyone should know

Cloud computing is an evolutionary step in the delivery of information technology as a service. This transformation will impact every organization. And make no mistake, its time is here.

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Featured Article: The "Cloud" Is Not Outsourcing

Cloud computing is much more than outsourcing. Moreover, internal clouds are where some of the biggest game-changing will be this year. In short, internal clouds will allow CIOs to remain relevant.

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Google Launches Enterprise App Store

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - John Panagulias

Google is looking to extend its cloud computing footprint within the enterprise with the launch of the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store for business software. The business applications are integrated with Google Apps, the company's suite of software as a service (SaaS) productivity and collaboration solutions. Google says they already have 50 partners offering solutions in the Google Apps Marketplace including Intuit, Manymoon, Concur, Jobvite and eFax.

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Impact of Virtualization on Cloud Computing (Part 3)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - John Panagulias

Today's guest blog is part three of a three part series by Mark E. Hill, Chairman, BlueLock, a cloud computing provider of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and a VMware vCloud Express Service Provider Partner.

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New Article: What If Users Cloud Specify Their Own SLAs?

Monday, March 8, 2010 - John Panagulias

On the surface, Infrastructure 2.0 seems to have very little value to the end-user. It is, after all, about collaboration at the infrastructure layer. It is under the covers, as it were, of the application blanket with which end-users actually interact. But it may end up that Infrastructure 2.0 will have a direct impact on the control the user has over the way in which applications are delivered. Which is to say they might one day have some.

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Steve Ballmer: The Cloud Crusader or The Anti-Larry? Take Your Pick.

Friday, March 5, 2010 - John Panagulias

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, declared "For the cloud, we're all in." Later he added, "Literally, I will tell you we are betting our company on it." And every tech publication from CIO.com to InfoWorld picked up the story. And why not? No one questions Microsoft's resources. Execution? Well, that's another thing. But, clearly, Ballmer is rallying his company around cloud computing and positioning Microsoft as a crusader for the cloud. It's quite a contrast from Oracle's Larry Ellison.

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New Article: Amazon's EC2 Generating $220M Annually

Friday, March 5, 2010 - John Panagulias

Today I’m going to tell you how much revenue Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is generating. After all, you, my regular readers, come to this blog for its insight, original thinking, and gems of wisdom. Today I have something particularly juicy for you: real-world numbers on Amazon’s EC2 size and revenue.

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New Article: Cloud Federation And The Intercloud

Friday, March 5, 2010 - John Panagulias

Last week’s post explored federation in the cloud, allowing enterprises to move workloads seamlessly across internal and external clouds according to business and application requirements. Advances in federation are good news for companies considering a move to the cloud since deployments no longer need to be custom projects and applications no longer have to be tightly coupled to a particular cloud.

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Movement of Co-location Facilities to the IaaS Cloud Services Business (Part 2)

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - John Panagulias

Today's guest blog is part two of a three part series by Mark E. Hill, Chairman, BlueLock, a cloud computing provider of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and a VMware vCloud Express Service Provider Partner.

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New Contributor Lori MacVittie Explains The Devil Is In The Details

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - John Panagulias

We're pleased to announce that Lori MacVittie, technical marketing manager at F5, will begin offering her insight into cloud computing to our readers.

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CloudSwitch Officially Launches Beta With Free Version

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - John Panagulias

CloudSwitch has opened its beta program to the public with a free version of its appliance that allows a company to move their existing applications to the cloud without re-architecting the application or changing management tools and policies. Initially, CloudSwitch is targeting customers with VMware-based applications looking to move apps to Amazon's public cloud computing infrastructure environment with additional public clouds to follow later in the year.

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Rackspace Targets Growth With New Partner Program

Friday, February 26, 2010 - John Panagulias

Rackspace, looking to drive additional growth via indirect sales, launched a new partner program based on feedback from its existing partners. The new program has two levels and associated volume-based discounts. The Rackspace Cloud Reseller Program offers up to a 12 percent discount for large volume resellers, whereas, the RackSpace Cloud Affiliate Program offers participants a 5 to 7 percent discount depending on the number of referrals they make.

Jamal Mazhar, CEO of Kaavo, a provider of on-demand application deployment and management solutions, commented:

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