Today Dell jumped the shark and announced a new specialized line of cloud computing hardware. Dell – seriously!? What makes this line of hardware any different from the servers your selling by the thousands to all the cloud vendors out there now? From their press release they state: New integrated cloud infrastructure solutions comprised of pre-tested,...

Today Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released Ubuntu 9.04. What makes this release stand out from previous Ubuntu releases is the new Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services is the first commercially-supported Linux distribution that enables businesses to build private cloud environments inside their firewalls. Companies will now be...

Today, Amazon annouced the availability of it’s newest web servrice – Elastic MapReduce. Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic...

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a commercial web service offering that allows you to rent your own server in which to deploy your applications. The infrastructure is highly scalable and allows you to increase or decrease your computing horsepower based on demand. Think of it as your own elastic data center where you only pay for the resources that you use. EC2...

While startups, consultants and individuals are rushing to put their applications in the cloud large enterprises are, for the most part, are still sitting on the fence. What is preventing adoption of cloud computing for enterprises. It basically comes down to a few issues – security, accountability and standards. Most cloud vendors, but not all, are mum...