Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’

Jason Child Heads To Groupon As CFO

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Huge deal for Groupon today, after roughly 12 years at Amazon, Jason Child is joining the red hot social commerce startup as chief financial officer.  Jason was most recently Vice President of Finance for Amazon.com’s $14 billion International business.  Previously, Jason held key finance leadership roles for Amazon in Germany and Japan, also serving in Investor Relations, Technology, Marketing and as Worldwide Corporate Controller.

Prior to Amazon, he spent more than seven years at Arthur Andersen where he was a CPA and Consulting Manager.Here’s Child’s comment on his move:

“Groupon is one of the most amazing businesses I have ever seen. I am thrilled to join a great team that is attacking one of the biggest opportunities in e-commerce today.”

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Rackspace Buys Cloudkik

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Large hosting and cloud hosting company Rackspace has aquired Cloudkick for an undisclosed amount of money. Cloudkick, which opened it’s doors in early 2009, helps to provide detailed graphs on your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing.  This should help the cloud server giant know a little better what is going on with your servers.

Cloudkick has a little over 1,500 businesses that it helps, from Fortune 500 enterprises to small start-ups.  Cloudkick has helped more than 1 million servers know a little better what is going on.

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Hyper-V Cloud

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20081027/Windows_Azure_610x406.jpgMicrosoft announced that the Hyper-V Cloud has a new group of tools designed for businesses that are looking to generate their own Windows Server-based private cloud infrastructures.

This is one of a few private cloud initiatives Microsoft has announced within the past year, following the launch of Windows Azure Platform Appliance.

It’s kinda cool. Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform lets service providers and large customers operate the Azure development and hosting platform as a private cloud from their own data centers so that developers are able to create new applications which they can run in the cloud.

Now users can choose from 70 global service providers that offer hosted versions of Microsoft-based infrastructures.  I wonder how this will change the cloud hosting world that we live in?  Would love to hear from all of you different comments on how you think this will change the world?

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