Archive for June, 2010

How Much Power Does Cloud Hosting Use A Year?

Thursday, June 17th, 2010
How Much Power Does Cloud Hosting Use A Year? Well, now you can find out with the new Conserve Insight by Belkin. Belkin just started pre-order on this little nifty device below. The Conserve Insight tracks your actual devices’ electrical usage and tells you how much they cost you on a yearly basis. It also calculates CO2 emissions produced by usage of a given device on either a monthly or yearly basis.

Find out how much energy your devices really use—including, the cost of operation, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) produced in generating the electricity consumed, and watts. See at a glance the true impact to your wallet—and the environment. Want on?  Well you can purchase them here, they range in price from $9.99 to $39.99. Gallery of all four devices below.

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Keao Caindec Joins OpSource SVP & CMO

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Keao Caindec has joined OpSource as SVP and CMO. In this new role, Caindec will focus on expanding the company’s presence in the high-growth IT services sectors of cloud hosting and managed hosting.

‘What attracted me to OpSource was its ability to solve the top enterprise concerns associated with cloud computing today: security, control, performance and ease of integration. Additionally, OpSource’s unique experience in billing and integration make it a perfect partner for channel,’ Caindec said. ‘Most of today’s cloud services providers have commodity offerings that are used for non-mission critical applications. OpSource aims to lead the market in enterprise-class cloud and managed hosting services, providing solutions that are high performance, secure and easy to integrate.’

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Savvis Buys Fusepoint for $121 Million

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Savvis completed its $121 million deal to buy Fusepoint today! Savvis originally wanted this deal to gain a strong hold in the Canadian market, a move the company said it’s largest clients had pushed for. Fusepoint, which has more than 300 clients, offers managed infrastructure and hosting services. Fusepoint has three data centers located in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

“The deal is consistent with our strategy to further strengthen our hosting business, to expand geographically and to focus on major financial centers like Toronto,” Savvis chief executive Jim Ousley said in a statement. “Our combined operations are well-positioned within the highly promising Canadian hosting market.”

We’ll see what Savvis can offer in Canada as far as cloud hosting is concerned.  Canadian cloud hosting has not been a hot topic but sounds like it will be in the near future.

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