Open Cloud on Ulitzer
Yahoo! has made its second major Cloud Computing announcement in five months,
announcing an open-source version of its Traffic Server at the 4th
International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA.
Company SVP of Cloud Computing Shelton Shugar, who will be keynoting at Cloud
Computing Expo, called Traffic Server "an essential building block," saying
it is "integral to our edge services, on-line storage, and cloud serving."
According to an official release from Yahoo!, Traffic Server enables session
management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing, and
routing for an entire cloud computing stack. It follows the company's earlier
announcement of the open-source Hadoop. Yahoo! has donated the Traffic Server
code to The Apache Sof... (more)
"Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing" will be the topic at hand when
Shelton Shugar, SVP of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, delivers his keynote at the
4th International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA. Shugar will
deliver his speech on Tuesday, November 3 at at the Santa Clara Convention
Center, before 2,000 preregistered delegates.
Shelton Shugar, SVP of Cloud Computing at Y... (more)
Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer
Rex Wang, VP of Product Marketing at Oracle took the audience through a tour
of the company's offerings during his keynote presentation at the 4th
International CloudComputing Expo in Santa Clara Wednesday morning, November
4. He also made the key point that Oracle wants "to offer customers a
choice."
This basic, seemingly simple strategy is exactly how Or... (more)
Zebras and tigers and bears, oh my!
Well, there were no bears on an invigorating Power Panel at the 4th
International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara Tuesday night, but the
subject of the two striped animals mentioned above did come up.
Re-visiting a topic that re-appears during times of seismic change in the IT
industry, panel moderator Jeremy Geelan, SVP of the event's producer SYS-C... (more)
Yahoo! SVP Shelton Shugar, speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing
Expo, outlined some of the detail involved in serving 600 million users per
month while handling hundreds of petabytes of data.
"We are building a private cloud to be used within Yahoo!," he said. Hundreds
of applications have already been migrated to the cloud, he said, noting that
"we are (now) focusing on the ... (more)