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Microsoft Brings Azure Cloud OS to China

'Net Features : wm-webhosting — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:38:00 GMT

China’s increasingly important role in the future of the Internet and Web hosting just got a major seal of approval from Microsoft, who recently announced that it was going to bring its Windows Azure cloud-based operating system to the Asian nation. This launch, which follows the release of Windows Server 2012, will bring multi-tenant public and private cloud services to millions of the businesses that operate in the world’s most populous country, giving owners a choice in how (and when) they will move to the cloud. Thanks to both Server 2012 and Azure, Windows customers can find the cloud that best matches the needs of their businesses, from on-premises datacenters to a public cloud. According to a report from Forrester Research , the public cloud market in China is set to grow from $297 million in 2011 to an astonishing $3.8 billion in 2020. Microsoft has signed a memorandum of understanding with the municipality of Shanghai and inked a deal to license its technologies with the company 21Vianet , which will provide Windows Azure services from its local Chinese datacenters to provide the best performance for its customers in the country....(read more)

Nimbula Offers Free Cloud Operating System Software

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Cloud Operating System Nimbula announced that its Nimbula Director product is now available for free and as a public beta. If you ever wanted to run your own cloud computing service then today is your luck day.

The software delivers a cloud operating system software much like Amazon EC2. Nimbula Director features include policy based authorization (enabling secure multi-tenancy), topology-independent distributed network security and monitoring and metering. Nimbula Director also provides automated deployment and cloud management to scale and facilitates easy migration of existing applications into the cloud by supporting multi-platform environments and flexible networking and storage.

"We are fortunate to have a strong community of IT professionals who have helped us shape Nimbula Director over the past few months,” said Willem van Biljon, Co-Founder and VP of Products at Nimbula. “We look forward to a greater number trying out the public beta of Nimbula Director and providing valuable input so we can deliver the best final product possible. Nimbula Director is the first example of Nimbula delivering on our mission to provide an industry leading Cloud Operating System."