| Zenoss Announces Monitoring for VMWare's Cloud Director It may well mark another milestone in cloud computing that we have been hearing so much buzz lately about cloud monitoring. No longer is it simply questions of "should we move to the cloud," but questions of "okay, we're committed to the cloud. How can we tell what works?" Along those lines, Zenoss announces today that it will be the first company to offer an independent monitoring and service... Continue Reading » 3 Vendors on the Relationship Between Cloud Computing and Virtualization VMworld starts in the morning and all eyes will be on what gets announced and how virtualization is extending its reach into the realm of cloud computing. We sometimes find that during big events there is such a blur of jargon that it can be helpful to do a bit of homework for a grasp on how companies view the actual technologies and the ways they relate. In that context we went to YouTube and... Continue Reading » How Facebook Scales with Open Source When it comes to having to scale your service to handle ever-increasing data demands, there may be no better example to look at than Facebook. The social networking giant has grown from a service for Harvard students to some 500 million users. But that number doesn't adequately capture the company's scaling and storage demands. So here are a few more statistics: All told, users spend 8... Continue Reading » Weekly White Paper: A New Generation of Apps and the Power They Require The demanding throughput requirements of large databases and transactional applications requires better virtual machine performance than previous generations. Intel and VMware deliver enterprise virtualization platform designed for these extreme workloads. "New Power for Data Center Virtualization," is a white paper by Intel that explores the ways mission-critical applications can be scaled with... Continue Reading » A Community-Based Framework to Evaluate Cloud Service Providers When we wrote last week about "4 Tools for Assessing Cloud Performance," we asked for suggestions about other resources that can help companies monitor and evaluate cloud services. And we asked for suggestions as to what factors, in addition to cost and performance, might be important to weigh when making business decisions. Jeffrey Abbott, Senior Product Marketing Manager in the Cloud Customer... Continue Reading » Coalitions and Communities - 3 Cloud Initiatives from the Summer of 2010 As we wrote yesterday, the summer of 2010 has been marked in the cloud computing world by open-sourcing technologies and multi-vendor agreements. We started the summer with OpenStack, the Rackspace and NASA open-cloud initiative. Earlier this week, Red Hat open-sourced its Deltacloud API. Also this week, newScale, rPath, Eucalyptus Systems and Momentum SI teamed up to begin offering a... Continue Reading » | 
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