Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds

Google Chrome OS: Dawn of the Cloud Computing era!

Tarry Singh — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:14:03 +0000

I guess you may have read our research paper where we describe the fundamental shift from Daap–>IaaP. This is what Google is bringing to us. This is perfect timing from Google. When founders Sergey and Larry approached Eric Schmidt on their grand plans to develop an operating system for the internet, he was a bit [...]

Riverbed buys competitor Expand Networks

Tarry Singh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:57:09 +0000

Both companies have technology to speed the transmission of data across wide area networks (WAN). Riverbed is publicly-owned, led by CEO Jerry Kennelly, and on a roll with its Steelhead WAN optimising appliance. It earned $102m in its third 2009 quarter, a 12 per cent increase on the second quarter and 18 per cent up [...]

RightScale to support Microsoft Azure!

Tarry Singh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:47:31 +0000

MICROSOFT PDC09, LOS ANGELES – Nov. 17, 2009 – RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced planned support for the Windows Azure platform. This support will enable customers to deploy RightScale-managed applications to Windows Azure and take advantage of the unique properties offered by the Windows Azure platform. RightScale’s intent to [...]

Storage vendors beware: Meet the biggest DRAM Flash storage on the planet!

Tarry Singh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:29:55 +0000

The revolution has started and spinning disks will die. As large storage vendors will clamor for space and try to retain the existing customers, these customers would have kicked every spinning disk out of the data center. As Cloud comes along, we’ll have all those flash and stuff going into the large data centers. [...]

CapGemini about to lose a €230 Million contract; Unstable Data Center the main reason!

Tarry Singh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:34:41 +0000

Unstable Data Center was the main cause for this possible reversal of the large contract. Before anyone jumps to conclusion I must say this at the defense of all large outsourcing parties that these are truly difficult times. We really need to hire quality staff very soon. Large outsourcing firms have double challenges when they [...]

Cloud Computing Survey: IT shops don’t want to buys servers anymore!

Tarry Singh — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:14:16 +0000

This is very consistent with my experience with many customers lately I am talking to directly where IT managers and even system engineers are happy to have the stuff consolidated and have it shipped and packing to some cool managed sourcing party like Rackspace or Amazon. Of the IT shops that LoudHouse chatted up, 51 per [...]

Data Center Build Out is hot in Europe; Trend to stay hot until 2015!

Tarry Singh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:51:34 +0000

Not surprisingly though, although that research firm is missing out on some really big sector, especially emerging markets where both U.S and Europe based companies are investing heavily in Data Center Build Out. Not only that many local operators and especially Telco’s are ramping up capacity like never before in these markets. Firstly, the amount of [...]

Google’s Director of Enterprise Solutions Interviewed; Cloud Computing plans unveiled

Tarry Singh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:24:46 +0000

Interview is kind of corporate like and boring and thus interesting to the black/white corporate guys Q: Does Google have a name for its cloud computing platform? Glotzbach: Where we really started in terms of a commercialized offering, in what I would call “cloud computing,” is our product suite that we refer to as Google [...]

RWW explains Cloud Computing in plain english

Tarry Singh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:09:46 +0000

Funny and nice. Cloud computing is one of those topics that confuses and confounds people. Larry Ellison loves to poke at it. It’s the hot topic so it is refreshing to see Lee once again explain the topic in simple terms that pretty much anyone can understand. It makes everyone’s job a bit simpler. Which takes us [...]

Verizon mocks At&T with Misfit Toys Ad

Tarry Singh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:56:02 +0000

Watch it yourself