Items Tagged: Public
Ten questions to help compare cloud storage services
So you've decided to pursue public cloud storage for a particular data set and use case. If you're a developer building a Web-enabled application, then you'll likely be interested in a cloud object store such as Amazon S3 or OpenStack Object Storage.
- Premiered: 01/24/13
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: TechTarget: SearchCloudStorage.com
Many paths to the one cloud - IBM and VMware
IBM is riding a giant wave of cloud-buzz this week after announcing an official strategy of leveraging OpenStack for future private as well as public IBM cloud offerings - just today, March 5th, 2013. This is a significant announcement from IBM, as it declares a future architectural direction and will put OpenStack in the center of focus for a good portion of IBM's 400,000+ employees (a good chunk of who are developers) as well as IBM's tremendous development ecosystem (crossing such brands and products as Rational, InfoSphere, WebSphere, Informix, DB2, Lotus, Cognos, FileNet, etc.).
Cloud gateways morph into cloud controllers market
Call them cloud controllers, cloud storage enablement or maybe cloud-integrated storage. Just don't call them cloud storage gateways, at least not when you're talking to any of the vendors who sell these intelligent cloud storage systems.