The Cloud Will Force Networking Vendors to Change Their Stripes (10)
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When a company builds a web site in the real world, they assemble servers, routers, switches, load balancers and firewalls, wire them up, configure them and go live. But when that application moves into a cloud environment, things change. In a cloud model, the customer isn’t dealing with physical equipment. So who handles all the wiring? And more importantly, how do networking vendors get paid? Many operational clouds still require their customers to corral their ...
FREE Hosting for Facebook & OpenSocial Developers - Social App Program (3)
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Are you developing Facebook and/or OpenSocial applications ? Would you like to deploy them and monetize before spending any money on infrastructure ? Social App Program is a new collaborative offering from Sun Microsystems and Joyent that allows you to do exactly that! It allows you to leverage Scalability and Cost-effectiveness of Joyent's cloud powered by OpenSolaris on Sun's renowned reliable servers and storage for deploying critical applications. And all this completely FREE for 12 ...
Botchanmics: The Dimmer Switch (2)
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We were able to catch up with Botchagalupe, the international IT man of mystery, and pin him down long enouth to get his thoughts about whats going in IT. Johnmwillis: Hello, Botchagalupe, its good to have you back again. Botchagalupe: Yea, yeah, sure, sure. Johnmwillis: What have you been up to? Botchagalupe: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback. Johnmwillis: The last time you were here you were talking about Botchanomics. ...
In Twitter’s Scoble Problem, a Business Model [GigaOM] (2)
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Twitter, our favorite tool for narcissism and the eponymously named San Francisco company behind the service may not have a business model, but it surely has the buzz. Whether it is their new round of funding or their inability to keep the service running — the blog world loves to twitter about Twitter. After talking to some of sources, I have a theory that could help Twitter solve its scaling conundrum and also help the ...
Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing with Mosso (1)
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Last week’s incident with Amazon Web Services briefly going down may have raised questions about the reliability of cloud computing, but demand is high enough for competitors to keep trying to get into the game. The more companies that enter this space, the cheaper and more competitive that Web-scale computing should become. Today, hosting provider Rackspace is offering a new cloud computing service through its subsidiary Mosso. (Disclosure: Rackspace is a TechCrunch advertiser). The service ...
