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3Tera Partners with Citrix

Monday, September 15th, 2008

3Tera, Inc. announced today a partnership with Citrix Systems, Inc. to make enterprise grade cloud computing solutions available to customers of all sizes in external hosted clouds, or as a platform that can be deployed in corporate datacenters behind customer firewalls.
By combining the new Citrix Cloud Center (C3) solution with 3Tera’s AppLogic Cloud Computing Platform, […]

Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)

Cloud Computing and the Enterprise

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

The more I learn about cloud computing, the more I think that it’s going to affect the enterprise more quickly than most people expect. Some enterprise customers are already working on cloud prototypes, and I recently heard a Forester analyst say that he thought that cloud computing initiatives could affect the enterprise within […]

Demystifying Clouds

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

force ma·jeure - noun Etymology: French, superior force
Date: 1883 1 : superior or irresistible force 2 : an event or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled — compare act of god

I’ll admit it: I am caught up in the cloud hype. The caveat, however, is that I truly believe that this […]

What if I only had a hour to live?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I was flipping channels this evening in my hotel room and heard a very touching story about a man who wrote a short Xen like essay about all the things he would do if he had only one hour to live. By the way, he dies shortly after completing the essay. Then, I started […]

Sun Microsystems gets into virtualization with xVM

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Sun Microsystems gets into virtualization with xVM

Let’s Party 2008 - Utility Cloud Computing

Monday, November 19th, 2007

So if 2008 is the year of the utility cloud space computing then why don’t we play the “Gartner Predictions” game on 2008 possible cloud mergers? They never get their predictions right so why can’t we play? The assumption is that a “Tipping Point” has occurred with IBM’s announcement to compete with Amazon’s S3/EC2. […]