HyperLINKS have been going strong for officially one month now and we hope you have enjoyed reading them! Now, without further ado here are today’s top stories:
In his wrap-up from last week’s Structure Conference, Dennis Barker writes about cloud computing, and mentions Hyperic’s CloudStatus as one of the best management tools around to help with the cloud
In an article for Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes about the main hurdle with cloud computing—the inability to move things around
In a fun blog post, Matt Aslett posts results from his own “European Open Source Championships,” comparing the respective “openness” between all countries
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TGIF! As another week comes to a close, here our today’s HyperLINKS:
Hyperic OEM partner, SpringSource, receives $15 million in funding from Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital
Gartner claims that cloud computing will be as influential as when the internet was being leveraged for e-business
Upon Yahoo’s creation of their “Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Group,” many analysts wonder if this means that Yahoo! will be entering the hosted IT space
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Hyperic CEO, Javier Soltero explains the cloudy nature of distributed computing during his Velocity keynote. When there’s an outage, and there will be, is it your application? Or the Cloud? Javier unveils CloudStatus.com and takes the audience on a test drive.
The Velocity Conference was a sold out show with many of the sessions being standing room only. We met face-to-face with many of our customers and community members, some of which came all the way from Europe for the event.
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GigaOm’s Structure Conference took center stage today and lots of interesting stories are coming down the pipeline. Here are today’s top picks:
While participating on a panel at Structure titled “Working the Cloud: NetGen Infrastructure for New Entrepreneurs ,” Google’s Christophe Bisciglia, was forced by several other panelists to defend the openness of BigTable, Google’s internal database system
Alistair Croll of BitCurrent offers 5 reasons why cloud computing isn’t just hype: power and cooling are expensive, demand is global, computing is ubiquitous, applications are built from massive and smart parts, and clouds let us experiment
The Velocity Conference wrapped up yesterday. It was a sold out show - and just the kind of crowd that we like to see! The whole conference was based on web operations, and the conference goers were very enthusiastic. Many of the sessions were standing room only. It was personally great for me to be able to meet face-to-face with many of our customers and community members which I normally don’t get to see - some of which came all the way from Europe for the event. Quite exciting!
It’s been a very exciting day today with the launch of our new service, CloudStatus, but we couldn’t forget about HyperLINKS. Here are today’s top picks:
Speaking of CloudStatus, TechCrunch’s Nik Cubrilovic, posted about today’s launch
In other cloud news, InformationWeek’s Richard Martin and J. Nicholas Hoover provide a comprehensive outlook on cloud computing, including information on the vendors and their offerings
TechTarget’s Pam Derringer writes about Red Hat’s release of its MRG platform, which includes a grid component that allows companies to expand their computing capacity on demand
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