In the run-up to the two next Cloud Expos, 6th Cloud Expo (June 21–22, 2010) in Prague, Czech Republic and 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010) being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem. I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endea... (more)

The Next Chapter in the Virtualization Story Begins

Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo West $800 Savings here! Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010. Malcolm is keynoting at the event. His theme will be "An Open Cloud Ecosystem - the Gathering Storm." Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Abiquo was also Platinum Plus Sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Expo held April 19-21, 2... (more)

Cloud Expo Europe: Private Clouds for Developers

Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo West $800 Savings here! Traditionally, infrastructure resources have been at the mercy of the IT system administrator. Development teams using Agile Development Methodologies are made rigid by this dated and inefficient system. "What if" scenarios are generally never attempted because the upfront cost of IT resources needed to reallocate the necessary infrastructure is too high. Unfortunately, Agile development efforts often fail because the development team does not control the management and deployment of the artifacts they develo... (more)

Ubiquitous Corporation Launches "Ubiquitous QuickBoot", as a Break-Through Booting Innovation for Various Embedded Devices

Ubiquitous Corporation, a Tokyo based leading embedded software company (JASDAQ NEO:3858) has announced public availability of QuickBoot Release 1.0, with ARM® currently being the primary platform supported. Ubiquitous will be showcasing Ubiquitous QuickBoot technology on ARM platforms this week at CCBN in Beijing and ESC 2010 Silicon Valley in April. By using the epoch-making Ubiquitous QuickBoot on ARM platform, Android or Linux can boot in 1 second, after turning on the power as a "cold" boot. "The Ubiquitous QuickBoot enables various devices such as TVs, STBs, automotive info... (more)

Penguin Spreads Its Wings

With the euro in freefall and the European economy pretty much frozen, this might be a heck a time to do it but HPC house Penguin Computing, which would much rather simply be called Penguin like Apple is now just Apple, is cautiously tiptoeing into the market, mostly through third-party service representation such as Life Technologies and regional resellers like Klassic Computers in the UK and IPS in Germany. It has also built one of the biggest supercomputers ever for Georgia Tech, a Top 100 quad-socket blade system called Myriad with more than 10,000 Opteron cores and 100 teraf... (more)