Rackspace is now taking names for their beta program for Cloud Servers for Windows. They plan to launch the beta in early 2010 with competitive pricing (vs their Linux servers):
Cloud Servers for Windows Server Size
Hourly Charge
512 MB
$ 0.04
1 GB
$ 0.08
2 GB
$ 0.16
4 GB
$ [...]
As I’m sure most of you are aware by now… VMware has finally released vSphere 4, the first cloud operating system.
From VMware’s site:
VMware vSphere delivers the cloud OS through the following essential components:
Application Services provide built-in controls over service levels to all applications running on the cloud OS, regardless of application type or operating system.
Infrastructure [...]
Unless you have been in the clouds for about the last year, you know that cloud computing is a hot topic right now in IT. It is defined in Wikipedia as “a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources are provided as a service over the Internet.” Notice it says often [...]