Articles from Linda Leung

1. How Much Are Cloud Providers Making? Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 22 2010) Cloud Computing How Much Are Cloud Providers Making? February 22nd, 2010 : Linda Leung How much are the major players in cloud computing making from their cloud operations? The answers are all over the map. Many cloud computing providers are private, and don’t disclose their revenue. Most of the leading publicly-held companies see cloud computing as a promising source of future growth, though perhaps not a large percentage of current revenue. And there’s some significant differences between companies providing software as a service (SaaS) and those offering infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Here’s a look at some of the public companies and their cloud computing revenues: (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Oracle   Cisco

2. SGI Cyclone Offers HPC in the Cloud Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 15 2010) Cloud Computing SGI has launched a new side to its business: cloud computing for the HPC crowd. SGI, which was formed through Rackable’s acquisition of Silicon Graphics, launched SGI Cyclone on Friday, joining a number of high performance computing (HPC) providers now offering cloud services. For a list billing price of $0.95 per HPC core hour, SGI Cyclone is offered in two service models: Software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Cyclone will initially support five technical domains: computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, computational chemistry and materials, computational biology, and ontologies. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Interactive Data Corporation   SGI

3. Cloud Monitoring Services: A Resource Guide Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 4 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing The cloud computing market has spawned an ecosystem of third parties that provide tools that monitor the performance of your hosted apps in the cloud, or keep a watch over public clouds (notably Amazon EC2) for breaks in service-level agreements. Some cloud computing monitoring services provide a single dashboard for SysAdmins to check the status of all their different clouds, whether public or private. Below is a list of cloud monitoring companies (in alphabetical order) with a brief description of what they offer. We will continue to update this list as new suppliers come on board. Have we missed someone? (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   IBM

4. Cloud Customers Report Capital Cost Savings Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 26 2010) Cloud Computing Six in 10 cloud computing customers say that they’ve been able to reduce their IT capital costs, according to a recent survey, in which end users also report that cloud deployments have improved service quality, reduced IT operations costs, and reduced IT management complexity. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) interviewed 159 enterprises with active, or immediately planned cloud deployments, and reports that 75 percent said private cloud is the preferred model. Fifty two percent are implementing both on-premises and off-premises clouds, EMA says in its report The Responsible Cloud. (Read Full Article)

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