Former Red Hat CTO now head of Google Cloud
During Stevens' tenure, Red Hat prepared itself for the new market of cloud computing. In 2008, Red Hat acquired Qumranet, which brought to Red Hat a number of virtualization technologies, such as the Kernel-based Virtual Machine and the Spice remote …
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Cutting the cloud computing carbon cost
Cloud computing involves displacing data storage and processing from the user's computer on to remote servers. It can provide users with more storage space and computing power that they can then access from anywhere in the world rather than having to …
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Cloud computing under siege
The benefits of cloud computing can hardly be overstated. By pooling computing resources, cloud computing not only offers significant cost savings over traditional software and hardware products, it facilitates innovation by allowing users, businesses …
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Cloud Computing set for massive growth in SA & Kenya
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Overall Cloud Computing Market in South Africa and Kenya, finds that the market earned revenues of $ 114.6 million in 2013 and estimates this to reach $ 288.0 million in 2018. Software as a Service will become the most …
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Business Insider: Google is giving startups 0000 in cloud computing credits …
Google just announced a new program called Cloud Platform for Startups, where it will give away $ 100,000 in cloud computing credits to startups that are less than 5 years old and generate less than $ 500,000 in annual revenue. Read the story here.
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Piston Cloud Computing Boosts OpenStack Security
Piston Cloud Computing today announced version 3.5 of its OpenStack cloud distribution, aimed at providing users with a new secure on-ramp to the cloud. Piston was co-founded by Joshua McKenty, who previously worked at NASA and was one of the key …
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