Observation of the Cloud Provider market and the market of server, networking and storage equipment, makes us reflect on the farsightedness of some strategies. The well-known Moore’s Law: “The number of transistors per chip doubles every 18 months”, which corresponds to an increase of about 60% in the RAM and CPU of our servers, has […]
On December 3rd, a Radio in Pisa (RadiologiaLive) interviewed us for an opinion on the infrastructural evaluation of the platform that we hear a lot about today WikiLeaks, in the broadcast “WikiLeaks, transparency or terrorism?” Below is the recording published on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr8Qjk1UgSA
Today, Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that it has achieved Level 1 compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). Merchants and other service providers can now run their applications on PCI-compatible AWS technology infrastructure to store, process, and transmit credit card information in […]
On November 23rd, an event of the Microsoft tour was held in the Byte room of Città della Scienza in Naples to bring to the attention of companies the reality of Azure, Microsoft’s Cloud Computing of the PaaS and SaaS type and soon also IaaS. The first part was presented to us by Fabio Scotti, […]
After the Cloud Camp, thanks to the invitation of the NOI Association (Napoli Open Innovation) we participated in two broadcasts of the “Widespread Innovation” recorded at Denaro TV. An article describing the episode was also published in the November 4 issue of Denaro. “We discuss “cloud computing”, i.e. the set of software that uses the […]
From 2 to 3 December at the Environment Park, Turin’s congress center, the Top-IX consortium, (Turin Piedmont Internet Exchange) organizes the CloudCamp and the Consortium’s Annual Conference. This year the conference (on 3 December) will focus on Open Data as a tool to create value and promote innovation. http://conferenza.top-ix.org At CloudCamp on December 2, 2010 […]
For days we have been hearing about Swisscom’s takeover bid for our Fastweb, while a desktop and application virtualization project between Swisscom and Citrix is underway. Maybe soon we will have a serious offer of virtual office in Italy? The project with Citrix currently operates with 25 Citrix XenApps for 25000 concurrent users, provides XP-based […]
We continue with the large acquisitions. This is the turn of EMC on Isilon, a large entity known to most as a storage system vendor, acquires Isilon, which we talked about in 2008, a strong reality in cluster storage systems. The growth in the demand for scalability in storage, not only in the amount of […]
The Ban Campania (IBAN – Italian Business Angels Network), sponsored by the Young Entrepreneurs Group of Confindustria Campania and the Consulate of the United States of America, has promoted the first edition of the Seed Camp… ania Investment Forum, a program for innovative start-ups in Campania and Southern Italy. The aim of the initiative is […]
VMengine organizes the CloudCamp in Naples for October on the 28th. The CloudCamp will be hosted in the largest event in Campania of technology and innovation, the TechnologyBiz, the second edition, this year richer in ideas than last year. One of the most forward-looking goals of our AWS user group was to be able to […]