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Gartner: Only 5% of CIOs Can Authorize IT Investments Alone

According to a new joint study by Gartner, Inc. and Financial Executives Research Foundation, CIOs alone have authorized only 5% of IT investments while the CFOs  alone have authorized 26% of all IT investments which indicates that their influence in IT is growing. Additionally, the survey found that 42% of IT organizations report directly to the CFO, and 33% [...]

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Barron’s — A Private Party: Big companies are quickly adopting new computer networks known as “private clouds.”

October 23, 2010 – Corporate adoption of efficiency-enhancing, virtualized computer networks, known as “private” clouds, is going so well that big companies may be ready for the next phase of cloud computing years sooner than either Wall Street or Silicon Valley expected. Read more. Tags: Barron’s, joyent, private cloud

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OpSource CEO To Discuss Leveraging the Cloud for Frictionless Customer Acquisition at Cloud Computing Expo

Santa Clara, Calif.—October 31, 2010—OpSource, Inc., the leader in enterprise cloud and managed hosting, today announced that it will be a featured speaker at the Cloud Computing Expo, which is being held November 1-4, 2010, in Santa Clara, Calif. The conference is the only enterprise IT event which covers the entire scope of the cloud [...]

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Joyent Releases Reference Architecture for Intel® Cloud Builders

San Francisco, CA—October 27, 2010—Intel announced today that it has selected Joyent, a leading global provider of cloud computing solutions, to participate in Intel® Cloud Builders, which publishes best practices, hardware blueprints and software architectures on how to deploy cloud infrastructures. Among the other program participants, Joyent is the only company that brings the experience [...]

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Intel Selects Joyent for Intel® Cloud Builders

Joyent releases Reference Architecture for Intel® Cloud Builders San Francisco, CA—October 27, 2010—Intel announced today that it has selected Joyent, a leading global provider of cloud computing solutions, to participate in Intel® Cloud Builders, which publishes best practices, hardware blueprints and software architectures on how to deploy cloud infrastructures. Among the program participants, including HP*, [...]

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Webinar: The NoSQL Solution That’s Right For You Wed, Nov 3

The past few years have seen an explosion in the number of NoSQL database management systems entering the marketplace and replacing traditional RDBMS solutions for web and gaming applications. The proliferation of choice has caused confusion, and recent public failures of popular NoSQL systems at such companies as Digg and FourSquare have dampened confidence in [...]

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Dr. Dobbs — Joyent’s Optimized Windows and Linux Cloud

October 22, 2010 — The cloud power behind both Facebook and LinkedIn, Joyent’s new Windows and Linux virtual machines provide a development environment for high-traffic web apps on both Enterprise and Standard editions of the Windows, CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu operating systems. Read more…

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Amazon Free = Oxymoron

Yesterday Amazon announced their “free” AWS service. Welcome to free-land, even if you’re 4 years late to the game. But that is okay, because I am really excited to run something on AWS, just as soon as I can figure out the confusing terms and conditions. Oh, and find a credit card to put it [...]

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CIO.com — Joyent adds Windows, Linux support

The move may put Joyent in direct competition with market leaders like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which also support applications built on Windows and Linux. But customers that are primarily looking for a service that hosts Web applications will find that Joyent is less expensive because of its SmartOS…Read More…

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Webinar: Load Balancing and Traffic Management in the Cloud

Application load balancing and traffic management used to require bulky hardware and expensive licensing fees. Today, however, this is an easily accessible utility in the cloud. In this webinar, we will discuss how you can use a simple load balancer to spread web traffic across multiple servers, add SSL and port monitoring for increased security, [...]

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Joyent Launches New Windows and Linux Cloud Hosting Solutions

Leading Cloud Provider Expands Smart Technology Platform to Support Windows- and Linux-based Applications San Francisco, CA (October 19, 2010)—Joyent, a leading global provider of cloud computing solutions, today announced the launch of its new cloud hosting solutions for Windows and Linux that expands its line of Smart Technologies for building and hosting web applications. The [...]

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OpSource Discusses Why Software Vendors Must Move to SaaS Model and Cloud Computing at SIIA OnDemand Europe

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Santa Clara, Calif.—October 18, 2010—OpSource, Inc., the leader in enterprise cloud and managed hosting, today announced that it will be a featured speaker at the Software Information Industry Association OnDemand Europe conference which is being held October 18-20, 2010, in London. The conference is the European software industry’s most comprehensive independent software vendor (ISV) gathering [...]

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AlertBoot Improves Availability and Saves 75 Percent By Migrating to the OpSource Cloud

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Santa Clara, Calif.—October 4, 2010—OpSource, Inc., the leader in enterprise cloud and managed hosting, today announced that AlertBoot, a leading hard disk encryption and data security company, has improved its service availability and saved more than 75 percent in operating costs by moving its information technology systems to the OpSource Cloud. OpSource Cloud Hosting is [...]

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