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Talkback PC World has an article concerning Ubuntu and private cloud. Canonical is touting private cloud capabilities in an upgrade to its Ubuntu Linux OS being announced on Tuesday. Available for free download on October 29, Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition...
[October 22, 2009, 2:27]
The private cloud is no mirage
Comment According to the narrow definitions laid down by pundits, many IT people are apparently thinking about, discussing and trying to implement something that does not exist — private cloud computing. There is nothing fictional about the private cloud.
[October 15, 2009, 15:12]
EMC, Cisco and VMware take aim at 'private cloud'
News The companies said their collaboration is aimed at the 'private cloud', a term for a virtualised IT infrastructure operated for a single company, whether that infrastructure is located on- or off-premises or combining the two.
[November 4, 2009, 15:01]
Amazon launches Virtual Private Cloud service
News With Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), announced in a blog post on Wednesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that businesses can extend their security services, firewalls and intrusion-detection systems to its cloud.
[August 27, 2009, 12:40]
Consider a private cloud
Talkback Many organizations are leveraging the economies of cloud architectures and the security of enterprise control by building internal or private clouds. You can learn more here: http://www.parascale.com/index.php/library/cloud-storage-technology...
[December 10, 2008, 20:33]
IBM unveils private business analytics cloud
News For more on this story, see IBM launches private business analytics cloud; Eyes 'easily consumable' BI for the masses on ZDNet.com. IBM on Monday will launch Blue Insight, a massive business analytics cloud that will hold more than a petabyte of data.
[November 16, 2009, 7:30]
The private cloud is no mirage
Talkback I gather then that an international business could set up it's own data center, at an unknown location, and have all it's branches sharing and storing information through that center and it will be their own private cloud.
[October 21, 2009, 5:18]
IBM moves into cloud storage
News IBM has launched a system to help enterprises build private clouds to retain their data, its first cloud-based storage product. The best-known cloud providers are public clouds — such as those offered by Amazon or Google — but to date, IBM has...
[October 7, 2009, 17:54]
Xen.org to build open-standards cloud platform
News The Xen.org community has announced plans to build a new cloud platform for service providers, as the basis of an initiative designed to help private and public cloud services co-operate using open standards.
[September 1, 2009, 13:27]
Services launched for Ubuntu-based clouds
News Canonical, the London company that founded the Ubuntu Project, on Wednesday announced professional services to support companies that are building 'private cloud' infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls.
[July 2, 2009, 9:50]
Open-source cloud platform goes commercial
Blog Eucalyptus, an open-source project aimed at making it possible to set up Amazon Web Services-compatible private cloud infrastructures, has established itself as a private company, Eucalyptus Systems. The idea behind the company is support the open...
[April 29, 2009, 13:15]
G Cloud will have an app store
News G Cloud, the UK government cloud computing project, will use both government and private sector data centres and have an app store. Martin Bellamy, the director of the office of chief information officer at the Cabinet Office, told ZDNet UK on...
[December 3, 2009, 15:15]
Novell aims to tighten cloud security
News Novell has unveiled a cloud-computing identity and access management service, designed to extend corporate security policies to hosted facilities. On Wednesday, Novell demonstrated an advanced prototype of its Cloud Security Service, which is due...
[July 30, 2009, 15:13]
Ubuntu cloud-computing components released
News Although Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is compatible with Amazon's EC2, deployments onto a private cloud will not yet move seamlessly onto Amazon's own public cloud. Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, on Thursday announced two...
[April 24, 2009, 16:23]
IBM targets developers in cloud push
News The second, IBM Smart Business Test Cloud, is a private cloud built by IBM inside a company's firewall. IBM is also offering to host virtual desktops in a business's datacentre in a private cloud or on its own cloud.
[June 16, 2009, 15:23]
ParaScale builds storage clouds from Linux clusters
News According to ParaScale, apart from private cloud storage solutions, where companies can build clouds inside their firewall, the PCS can also be beneficial for those who want to offer public cloud storage services.
[March 30, 2009, 14:24]
EMC's Tucci: Next big things in IT
News He sees that private datacentre virtualising all of its servers' workloads, and then being able to move some of those workloads to the cloud. It views these cloud-computing datacentres as connected to private datacentres via VMware products, so...
[May 22, 2009, 12:21]
The Role of Security in Trustworthy Cloud Computing
White Papers In the development of public and private clouds, enterprises and service providers will need to use these guiding principles to selectively adopt and extend security tools and secure products to build and offer end-to-end trustworthy cloud...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?
Comment The first of these trends, cloud computing, wants to run the large commoditised applications (such as mail, groupware and CRM) so IT departments do not have to run them from private datacentres. Cloud computing — applications and services delivered...
[July 3, 2009, 12:01]
Verizon rolls out computing-as-a-service
News Verizon Business has launched a cloud-based computing-as-a-service product for enterprises and government agencies. According to Verizon, a key advantage of cloud-based services such as CaaS is scalability — businesses do not need to buy equipment...
[June 4, 2009, 13:12]
