Archive for May, 2010

May 20: Microsoft to detail more of its private cloud plans

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

So big cloud server news for the day is Microsoft and it’s announcement about an announcement to detail more of its private cloud plans.  This will all take place on May 20.  They didn’t say what year but I am assuming that it’ll be this year!  Read more at “Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event” for May 20.

Microsoft officials have been articulating the company’s private-cloud play in pieces over the past year or so. Microsoft also is planning to provide enterprise customers with customized cloud-computing containers, at some point. There’s also Project Sydney — technology that enables customers to connect securely their on-premises and cloud servers.

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$40 million investment round in Virtustream’s cloud service

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Intel Capital along with other VC’s have invested $40 million into Virtustream.  Virtustream is a data center co-location and services company that recently launched cloud computing services into their main business.

Virtustream is undergoing a large expansion with the purchase of two data centers in California and Virginia, and the release of xStream, a cloud computing platform aimed at midsize enterprises.

According to Business Week “The funding will help further develop Virtustream’s infrastructure and expand the xStream cloud platform.xStream provides I/O, CPU, RAM, disk and network resources, giving enterprises access through a self-service management portal, which lets customers manage both internal and external computing resources from the same screen. XStream capacity can be purchased as either dedicated or shared physical resources, and as either a managed or unmanaged service.”

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Cloud Computing Customer Hacked. Guess Who? The US Treasury

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

The Treasury Department blamed a cloud computing provider for the disruption of its website that provides the Internet face of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the agency that prints United States currency.

On Monday a blog reported that the Gov Treasury cloud hosted sites were hacked. Wednesday morning, the bureau’s website was still down.

On Tuesday, Treasury issued the following statement:

“The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) entered the cloud computing arena last year. The hosting company used by BEP had an intrusion and as a result of that intrusion, numerous websites (BEP and non-BEP) were affected. On May 3, the Treasury Government Security Operations Center was made aware of the problem and subsequently notified BEP. BEP has four Internet address URLs all pointing to one public website. Those URLs are; BEP.gov; BEP.treas.gov; Moneyfactory.gov and Moneyfactory.com.

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