GoGrid announces its Cloudcenter Application Programming Interface (API) under a share-alike Creative Commons license. This allows developers, system integrators among others to copy, modify, distribute and republish their cloud computing API with attribution to GoGrid. This is a big move from GoGrid. However, this was anticipated because of the intense competition from Amazon [...]
James Urquhart of the wisdom of clouds, a popular blog, presents an interesting argument for private clouds. His argument for private clouds cites three reasons which are mentioned below:
“Disruptive online technologies have almost always had an enterprise analog. The Internet itself had the Intranet: the use of HTTP and TCP/IP protocols to deliver [...]
VMware and Citrix announced their cloud initiatives at VMWorld last week. Up until then, the choice to enable an enterprise’s infrastructure as a service was limited to using products from any of these firms: 3Tera, Elastra, and Enomalism (open source).
From an architectural perspective, Citrix and VMware cloud initiatives broadly fall into the following categories:
1. Cloud [...]
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a provider’s network of servers situated around the globe to effectively deliver web content to the end users. A CDN is the best solution in addressing inherent performance and scalability problems associated with delivering of web content on a global scale. While a CDN is an appropriate solution to [...]