OnDemand Speed Links 23 February 2010

February 23, 2010
Written by Ameed Taylor

SAP Launches 12Sprints Beta
SAP launches its Cloud Based Collaboration tool, months (and in some cases years) behind similar tools by IBM , 37 Signals and a host of other cloud providers

Cloud Computing Revenue Predictions
Interesting article from Linda Leung that estimates revenue from Cloud Computing operations for a few major cloud providers

The IPad and Desktop Virtualization
How the IPad could become the must have thin client for Desktop Virtualization in 2010.

Private Cloud Adoption Models
EMC Global Marketing CTO Chuck Hollis describes the 3 primary adoption models he has seen companies adopt with private clouds.

Category: Apple, Cloud Computing, SAP, SaaS, Speedlinks, Virtualization

Red Hat OpenSource Cloud Computing Forum

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February 11, 2010
Written by Ameed Taylor

Below are three of the more interesting/promising presentations from the recent Red Hat sponsored OpenSource Cloud Computing Forum.

Category: Cloud Computing, Conferences, OnDemand Software, Open Source, Red Hat, RedHat

Oracle + Sun Cloud and Virtualization Strategies

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January 28, 2010
Written by Ameed Taylor

The tech industry has been abuzz the past week now that the Oracle acquisition of Sun has cleared the last hurdle from the European Union and is officially complete.

Oracle and Sun executives have begun addressing a number of questions about how Oracle will integrate Suns various hardware, system and software stacks into the Oracle ecosystem.

Two areas of integration that hold quite a bit of interest to this blog’s readers are Oracle + Sun’s Cloud and Virtualization Strategies. In the following prerecorded videos Richard Sarwal SVP of Product Development and Edward Screven; Chief Corporate Architect, give insight into Oracle’s future strategy.

Category: Cloud Computing, Europe, Mergers and Acquisitions, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Virtualization

IBM rolls out Beta Cloud to Developers

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January 21, 2010
Written by Ameed Taylor

IBM last month rolled out its Beta Cloud to the general public. The Beta Cloud is IBM’s dynamically provisioned runtime environment that includes tools to develop and test application code on IBM software.

With this new offering on the market it will be interesting to see who dominates amongst Amazon, IBM, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure and Force.com as the environment of choice for Cloud development.

The following video shows developers how to create environments on the Beta Cloud.