Episode 7 - "From the News Desk"
Date: April 22, 2011
Guests: Just Aaron & Brian
We welcomed another sponsor this week (Cloud Concierge - http://www.thecloudbutler.com), offering Cloud consulting to CIOs.
After that, we got right to a huge docket of news:
- Lots of biz related items (some are bought, some go under as the market shakes out)
- Cisco acquires newScale - http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2011/corp_032911.html
- Iron Mountain shuts down public cloud storage - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215679/Report_Iron_Mountain_to_shutter_cloud_storage_service?taxonomyId=19
- Online Poker Sites Sized by Government - Fult Tilt, Poker Stars, Absolute Poker http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=mmaweekly-f0840f6505abada2b184ff9d414b8f72
- http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/04/18/cloud-storage-separating-the-contenders-from-the-pretenders/ - Cirtas in a state of Flux
- Level 3 to buy Global Crossings - http://gigaom.com/broadband/why-you-should-care-about-level-3-buying-global-crossing/
- HP partners with eGenera PAN Manager - http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/data_centers/229401109
- Investment into Cloud (Will there be room for the little guys)
- VMware OpenPaaS announcement - Cloud Foundry - http://cloudfoundry.com/
- Dell announces vStart and $1B investment in Cloud - http://gigaom.com/cloud/dell-pushes-cloud-agenda-with-new-data-centers-converged-system/
- IBM announces “SMART Cloud” - http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/
- Facebook “open sources their data centers” and announces “OpenCompute” - http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-open-sources-its-servers-and-data-centers/
- http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2011/04/is-microsoft-taking-a-risk-by-putting-all-its-eggs-in-the-cloud-computing-basket/ - Microsoft all-in budget on Cloud ($8.6B)
- How cloud may be changing the traditional business models:
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-20052218-240.html - distributors and rocking the boat with a traditional sales model
- http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/?p=3052
