Amazon, which has been rolling out new features on a monthly basis—further cementing its global leadership and widening the gap between itself and all other players in the cloud computing ecosystem—has recently announced the release of a rather unusual new feature that leaves us a bit perplexed. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances A service associated with […]
The Innovation Group organized the Cloud Forum 2011 at the Westin Palace Hotel, located at Piazza della Repubblica 20 in Milan, on March 29 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The event featured a packed agenda full of content and prominent speakers, as well as an exhibition area showcasing the leading vendors in Italy’s cloud […]
On February 2, 2011, a little over a year after the last draft, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has some news to share. It has published a new draft (Special Publication 800-145, January 2011, by Tim Grance and Peter Mell), a guidance document on security and privacy in the public cloud (Special […]
Yesterday the news of this gigantic acquisition, worth 1.4 billion dollars ($19 per share) As can be seen from this excerpt from google finance, the intention to acquire at a value of $19 has increased its value by 30%. Below is the Verizon news: http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2011/verizon-to-acquire-terremark.html And that of Terremark: http://www.terremark.com/investor-relations.aspx This is configured in the […]
At the kind invitation of Microsoft, we participated in this very interesting three-day Full Immersion course in the classroom at Microsoft’s premises in Segrate, on the Microsoft Window Azure Cloud Computing platform. The course is part of a new and strong marketing strategy by Microsoft on Azure to introduce Microsoft’s PaaS platform to developers and/or […]
I will talk here about a piece of news that perhaps will not interest many, but I feel I must congratulate and make my personal wishes to Alessandro Perilli. Who is Alessandro Perilli : I would say a professional of Roman origins with a respectable curriculum. I would also say a source of pride for […]
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, […]