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
$ [...]
Now that vSphere from VMware is officially available, the first thing on many people’s minds is “when can I get it?” Ok, so maybe you aren’t quite that eager to uproot the stability of your virtual datacenter and upgrade to the latest and greatest next weekend, but the new featureset is compelling enough to start [...]
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 [...]