Archive for March, 2010

Twestival 2010

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Twestival™ (or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good. Cities around the world will be throwing parties and hosting events to raise money for Concern Worldwide, at the same time on the same day.

Join your local Twitter community and support the efforts of Concern by buying a ticket to Twestival. Below is a (very incomplete) list of the cities hosting Twestival parties and events tomorrow with links to where you can find more information. To see if your city is participating this year, browse the interactive world map on the Twestival homepage.

Unites States
Seattle – seattle.twestival.com
Sacramento – sacramento.twestival.com
Fresno – fresno.twestival.com
Palo Alto – paloalto.twestival.com
San Francisco sanfrancisco.twestival.com
Santa Barbara – santabarbara.twestival.com
Los Angeles – losangeles.twestival.com
Las Vegas – lasvegas.twestival.com
Pheonix – pheonix.twestival.com
Salt Lake City – saltlakecity.twestival.com
Denver – denver.twestival.com
Austin – austin.twestival.com
Houston – houston.twestival.com
Des Moines – desmoines.twestival.com
Columbia – columbia.twestival.com
Fort Madison – fortmadison.twestival.com
Fargo – fargo.twestival.com
Chicago – chicago.twestival.com
Nashville – nashville.twestival.com
Atlanta – atlanta.twestival.com
Wilmington – wilmington.twestival.com
Charleston – charleston.twestival.com
Tampa – tampa.twestival.com
Southwest Florida – southwestflorida.twestival.com
Richmond – richmond.twestival.com
Philadelphia – philadelphia.twestival.com
Rochester – rochester.twestival.com
Newark – newark.twestival.com
Boston – boston.twestival.com

Canada
Vancouver – vancouver.twestival.com
Toronto – toronto.twestival.com
Montreal – montreal.twestival.com
Qubec – quebeccity.twestival.com
Calgary – calgary.twestival.com
Edmonton – edmonton.twestival.com
Victoria BC – victoria.twestival.com

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)

Abiquo in the Cloud Business

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

A recent piece of cloud news:

Abiquo Launches A New Generation of its open source cloud management software. The abiCloud version 1.5, which is being announced at the company’s US launch today, supports Microsoft’s Hyper-V and allows users to convert a running VMware hypervisor to Microsoft’s Hyper-V via drag and drop.

CEO Peter Malcolm says, “The platform represents the next generation of virtual management. It shares some of the same capabilities of VMware’s Virtual Center but additionally offers vendor neutrality, workload management and resource management of physical servers, storage management and the ability to scale applications.”

Read Full Article

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)

Cloud Servers by Rackspace

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

You manage & control it all… Rackspace allows you to scale from 1 cloud server to 50 cloud servers in a minute, depending on what you need, and you only pay for what you use. Accessible via an online control panel, it is super easy for the user to access his servers from any location.

Pricing with Rackspace.com starts at $10.95 per month or 1.5¢ per hour plus bandwidth.

Check out more about the Rackspace Cloud

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)

Call us at 801.384.0032