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Below is a talk on CloudComputing from the University of California Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program, by Michael Crandell. I think you will be surprised by what the CEO of this industry-leading cloudcomputing has to say about the future of the Cloud.
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Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the cloudcomputing software firm headed by former GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo, said Tuesday that it has inked a deal with Alchemy Communications. According to the firm, Alchemy Communications will use its products to provide hosted, private cloud environments to its customers.
Two Los Angeles cloudcomputing firm have joined the new Openstack Foundation , an industry group looking to promote the open cloudcomputing system spawned out of Rackspace. The foundation said it will help the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud software. Intel, NEC and VMware.
Los Angeles-based private equity firm The Gores Group has acquired cloudcomputing consulting and systems integrator Astadia , Gores said Monday. Astadia serves enterprise customers, helping them build cloud-based software; the firm says it has 2,600 clients using its services.
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Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh , a developer of cloudcomputing management software, announced today that it has raised $15M in a funding round. ServiceMesh provides software to help enterprise business units self-provision cloud infrastructure and enterprise apps. The round came from Ignition Partners.
For all of the consumer adoption of the cloud, enterprise users are still not as bought into the vision of cloudcomputing as one might think they would be. So, how do you help ease enterprise customers into the cloud--or at least, help them use cloud technology to help them with their business goals?
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Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , which develops software for managing public and private cloudcomputing infrastructure, said this week that it has launched a new product called mCloud On-Demand. The firm said the new product allows users to use Amazon's EC2 cloud service to deliver enterprise applications over the public cloud.
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Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , the developer of cloudcomputing software which is backed by Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates, said Thursday that it has named Ning Wang as its Chief Financial Officer. Eucalyptus develops software to help companies deploy on the public, private, and hybrid cloud.
Santa Barbara-based cloudcomputing management software firm RightScale is linking its products into IBM DB2, one of the major enterprise database software packages, the firm said today. RightScale devleops products which help in deploying applications across Amazon EC2 and other cloudcomputing environments.
Ninja Metrics uses social analytics and cloudcomputing software to calculate "social value" of users in an online gaming environment, helping companies to predict what their users will be purchasing or doing, and helping them to better monetize their games. The company is led by Dr. Dmitri Williams.
First, realize that no individual in your organization, including yourself, is as effective alone as with collaborative help from peers. Explore and implement one of the many collaborative environments available through cloudcomputing, products from Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others. Test the system.
How do you use the new tools for collaboration to enable people and computers to be connected so that collectively they act more intelligently than any individual? Help from your peers. First, realize that no individual in your organization, including yourself, is as effective alone as with collaborative help from peers.
Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloudcomputing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Pricing on the new product was not announced.
Santa Barbara-based RightScale , a firm which develops cloudcomputing management software, has linked its products with New Relic, a developer of application performance management software, the firms said this week. RightScale said that its CloudComputing Management Platform can be used with New Relic's RPM software.
Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloudcomputing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid.
CloudCamp is an unconference where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloudcomputing and related technologies.
Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloudcomputing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloudcomputing platform and storage. At UC Santa Cruz.
The hype surrounding cloudcomputing is not easily dismissed, especially considering how many businesses are adopting it for their operations. The benefits of the cloud are by now well-documented, helping companies become more productive, reach news levels of capabilities, and save on costs in the long run.
The era of cheap cloudcomputing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. Not really helping you do something better. As with the late 90′s the answer is “Yes. Then you stop.
3) Cloudcomputing offerings as an enabler to lean startups. This incredible wave of capital-efficient web-based businesses launches is due in no small part to the lower cost of entry provided by cloud-based offerings. It's been really gratifying. There are lots.
According to Xilinx, the deal will help the company accelerate its "data center first" strategy. Solarflare's network interface cards are used in cloudcomputing, fintech, and other data center applications, where applications require low latency network access. Financial details of the acquisition were not anounced.
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Clio , a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. Newton said his vertical SaaS company helps legal professionals be more productive, grow their firms and “make legal services more accessible.”
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