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Cloud Data sponsors 'Storage Virtualisation' Award

Cloud Data is proud to be sponsoring the 'Storage Virtualisation Product of the Year' category at this year's Storage Awards, which take place at the Tower Hotel in London on Thursday 11th June.  Awards are voted for by readers of Storage Magazine, produced by BTC.

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Mon, 08/06/2009 - 09:48

Virtual Servers overtaking Physical Servers

Interesting news article on Microscope which shows that virtualisation is really here to stay.  Analysts IDC are predicting that the virtual/physical server ratio will be 3:2 by 2013.

This clearly demonstrates that virtualisation is now mainstream - no longer an experimental technology only used for development and testing, but a production ready technology which is widely adopted.

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Fri, 15/05/2009 - 07:26

A big week for Cloud Operating Systems

This week has been a big week for the world of Cloud Computing, with 2 leading software companies announcing the release of their ‘Cloud Computing’ focused products.

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Fri, 24/04/2009 - 14:04

Cloud Computing Explained

There’s a whole lot of hype and hot air surrounding Cloud Computing at the moment, lots of new buzzwords and acronyms like SAAS, PAAS, IAAS etc - but what actually is Cloud Computing?

The answer to this question really depends on who you are speaking with, and to some extent what they are trying to sell!

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Fri, 27/03/2009 - 13:13

London Cloudcamp 3

I attended my first Cloudcamp last night at the QE2 conference centre in Westminster.  I was actually pretty impressed, both with the format of the event and the quality and variety of attendees.  The hosts stuck rigidly to the 5 minute time slots for the ‘Lighting Talks’ which ensured that the first half of the event ran to time.  The most interesting lightening talks for me were William Fellows, principal  analyst from The 451 Group who pres

Submitted by Karl Robinson on Fri, 13/03/2009 - 10:03