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  • 'Good enough' Microsoft Hyper-V starts turning more heads

    Posted April 23, 2013 - 2:07 pm

    About three years ago Embotics jumped into developing support in its private cloud management platform for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, hopeful that the VMware virtualization challenger would take off. When that takeoff initially stalled, Embotics curtailed its Hyper-V work to focus resources elsewhere.

  • Nebula - A turnkey private cloud brought to you by NASA

    Posted April 12, 2013 - 8:00 am

    What began as a NASA cloud computing project, and in partnership with Rackspace resulted in the OpenStack project, has now become a turnkey private cloud system for the enterprise. What this means is you can now buy an all-in-one solution to your organization's server needs and be up and running in no time.

  • How Intel built its own private cloud

    Posted April 2, 2013 - 11:52 am

    Intel not only embraces cloud computing and the technology behind it, the company uses it in a big way.

  • Why VMware's hybrid cloud announcement could be a big deal

    Posted March 16, 2013 - 8:06 am

    Perhaps the biggest selling point for VMware's newly announced hybrid cloud strategy -- and the reason it could be a game changer in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market -- is because of the common platform VMware customers will now have between their private cloud internal systems and this new VMware-operated public cloud.

  • Rackspace enhances private cloud offering

    Posted March 6, 2013 - 12:47 pm

    Rackspace, the major public cloud provider, is not ignoring private clouds.

  • JPMorgan Chase deploys private cloud for 2,000 apps

    Posted March 4, 2013 - 8:21 am

    JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) has completed the deployment of what is billed as one of the world's largest private cloud platform-as-a-service (Paas) projects.

  • Forrester: 70% of "private clouds" aren't really clouds at all

    Posted February 26, 2013 - 3:12 pm

    If an enterprise data center has a highly virtualized environment, a web portal for business users to request and access virtual machines and a method for tracking how many of those resources are being used... that's not quite a private cloud.

  • Red Hat doubles down on platform as a service (PaaS)

    Posted February 14, 2013 - 2:04 pm

    In the cloud world of the future, some companies will want public cloud resources while others will want private clouds on their own premises, says Ashesh Badani, general manager of Red Hat's cloud business unit. That's why Red Hat has a cloud strategy that incorporates both public and private platform as a service (PaaS) clouds, and it has big plans for those products this year.

  • 2013: Year of the hybrid cloud

    Posted December 3, 2012 - 11:40 am

    The time for dabbling in cloud computing is over, say industry analysts. 2013 is the year that companies need to implement a hybrid cloud strategy that puts select workloads in the public cloud and keeps others in-house.

  • Eucalyptus: We're the Amazon of private cloud companies

    Posted November 29, 2012 - 3:15 pm

    Late last year Daniel Bozeman, a software engineer at wireless analytics firm Mosaik Solutions, wanted to build a private cloud. The company is a heavy user of Amazon Web Services public cloud resources, and Bozeman had a vision of creating a system that would allow him to seamlessly run workloads either in the company's own data center, or in Amazon's public cloud.

  • Red Hat rolls out private PaaS

    Posted November 27, 2012 - 5:19 pm

    Red Hat is officially jumping into the cloud platform as a service (PaaS) market today.

  • VMware and Microsoft are missing the boat on private PaaS, consultant says

    Posted November 19, 2012 - 9:07 am

    VMware's Cloud Foundry and Microsoft Azure are two of the leading platform as a service (PaaS) offerings from two cloud heavyweights, but one consultant says both companies are largely ignoring the private cloud market, creating a glaring hole for customers.

  • 5 things a private cloud is NOT

    Posted September 13, 2012 - 1:35 pm

    The National Institute for Standards in Technology has a definition of what cloud computing is that's fairly agreed upon within the industry. But research firm Gartner says there's still a lot of cloud-washing, or market confusion on exactly what the technology is. So, the firm released a list of five things the cloud is not.

  • De Vere hotels consolidate online brands through private cloud

    Posted May 24, 2012 - 1:38 pm

    The De Vere hotel group has created a private cloud architecture to help consolidate its online brands.

  • Pogoplug service turns your computers into private cloud

    Posted May 9, 2012 - 9:09 pm

    Pogoplug launched a service today that allows small and medium-sized businesses, as well as home users, to turn their PCs and servers into pools of storage accessible from the Web.

  • Zynga makes dramatic shift from public cloud

    Posted February 15, 2012 - 3:18 pm

    The social games company sees Amazon Web Services as a 'four-door sedan' and its own network as a sports car

  • AT&T aims to ease private-to-hybrid cloud transition

    Posted February 13, 2012 - 7:31 pm

    AT&T has launched a new version of its Synaptic Compute as a Service offering designed to help enterprises access capacity beyond their private clouds.

  • Forget public cloud or private cloud, it's all about hyper-hybrid

    Posted February 12, 2012 - 8:24 am

    Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, CIOs and their IT organizations need to focus on what it means to rethink their business as a collection of services.

  • Former NASA OpenStack researchers enter private cloud market with Piston Enterprise OS

    Posted January 20, 2012 - 6:28 pm

    Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to addressing friends and colleagues at his company's launch party: "Let's finish where we started."

  • Why Mixpanel moved off the public cloud

    Posted October 31, 2011 - 11:42 am

    Mixpanel is a company based in San Francisco that provides sophisticated analytics for online companies. They are a cloud service, in that they host the software. But their cloud history has been anything but soft and fluffy.

  • Private PaaS: Private cloud, enterprise architecture converge

    Posted September 13, 2011 - 6:25 pm

    CIOs carry the tremendous responsibility of organizing their enterprise IT strategy to be cost effective, efficient and high quality. One of the most critically important components of enterprise IT has been applications. Worldwide, enterprise IT departments deploy and deliver third party applications to their end users and lines of business, and in many cases, build new custom applications from scratch that satisfy the business needs of end users that are otherwise unsatisfied by third party packages. Applications are the lingua franca of IT. In fact, a number of practices have evolved around the importance of the application, how they are built and how they are delivered. One of the most important is the practice of enterprise architecture. As the sea-change that is cloud computing washes over the industry, certain aspects of cloud that make their way into the enterprise as private cloud will move enterprise architecture from fairy-tale to reality. The most important of the cloud

  • Leveraging virtual I/O technologies to achieve converged infrastructures: The road to the private cloud

    Posted August 16, 2011 - 6:41 am

    A private cloud architecture leverages the power of end-to-end virtualization so workloads can be fluidly distributed among a pool of servers, but this ideal cannot be achieved with traditional network infrastructure.

  • Gartner: IT should be planning, moving to private clouds

    Posted June 15, 2011 - 11:41 am

    If speedy IT services are important, businesses should be shifting from traditional computing into virtualization in order to build a private cloud that, whether operated by their IT department or with help from a private cloud provider, will give them that edge.

  • IBM aims cloud-computing services at universities, colleges

    Posted June 2, 2011 - 6:08 pm

    IBM today announced a cloud-computing service that will let universities and colleges build custom private clouds that can be integrated into public cloud services. IBM also has a similar initiative underway for K-12 schools.

  • Private clouds hold a wide lead over public clouds among IT pros polled

    Posted June 1, 2011 - 6:46 am

    Public clouds have a way to go if they want to be the top choice of businesses looking to put resources in a shared, centralized computing environment, according to a poll of 1,200 IT professionals.
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