infrastructure

Joyent will use the cash to fund expansion of its cloud services and take on Amazon, the behemoth in that space.

The company hosts its own public cloud services and sells infrastructure that customers use to field their own public or private cloud services.

For anyone who doubts that cloud computing is driving IT check out new numbers from IHS which predicts that unit shipments of "cloud servers" -- computers that run public and private cloud computing infrastructure -- will grow 35 percent to a whopping 875,000 this year, up from 647,000 in 2011.

Windows Azure is Microsoft's platform-as-a-service offering, typically thought of as a public cloud because of its multitenant approach of using shared infrastructure for multiple customers.

However, Windows Azure is also available under a dedicated subscription plan for some Microsoft customers.

If you have a website or a network, it is quite wise to keep tabs on it and fix any issues as soon as they occur.

The most easiest and handy way of doing it is by using any server/network monitoring tool that will monitor your infrastructure for any problems that may arise.

LWN: Gentoo is a source-based distribution that is unlike the more common binary distributions because packages are compiled on your machines rather than remotely on the distribution's infrastructure.

The H Open: Six years later than originally expected, the kernel now contains all the essential components for Xen Dom0 operation.

Behind the cloud are thousands of servers, switches, appliances both physical and virtual, and any number of complicating bits of machinery and software all just waiting to cause a problem.

Understanding and monitoring that massive infrastructure is the world of LaunchPad finalist Real-Status.

In five short years, cloud computing has gone from being a quaint technology to a major catch phrase. For the first time, we've decided to condense our knowledge into The Structure 50, a list of the 50 companies that are influencing the way the cloud/infrastructure evolves.

This white paper outlines important developments in storage for virtual server environments, along with considerations for executives and IT staffs tasked with implementing and managing this infrastructure.

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