Vanessa Alvarez


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EngineYard Chooses TerreMark: What Does this Mean for Enterprises?

The recent announcement between Terremark and Engine Yard got me to thinking this past week, just what this means for enterprises. Terremark has been quite aggressive in providing its Enterprise Cloud to the market. With VMware’s vCloud, they are delivering private cloud services to their enterprise customers. With roughly 50% of enterprises considering a move ...

VMware Acquires Zimbra: The Bigger Picture as the Path to a Platform Begins

This week, VMware officially announced its acquisition of Zimbra, an open-source e-mail vendor from Yahoo!. The acquisition would give VMware an open-source enterprise collaboration platform, including e-mail. Many collaboration vendors, such as Cisco with its acquisition of PostPath, have filled out their portfolios with e-mail to offer a more end to end collaboration solution. IBM ...

Amazon Web Services: Where Is It Going in 2010?

The last few weeks of 2009 have proven to be quite productive, for cloud computing in general, and for Amazon specifically.  In general, many of the market players have made necessary acquisitions and/or partnerships this past year in order to further their cloud strategies.  Furthermore, organizations such as OCCI and Cloud Security Alliance are undertaking ...

Public Vs. Private Clouds: Which Cloud Wins?

First, I just want to say that it’s a pleasure to be blogging for SiliconANGLE’s community.  I hope to pass on some of my insight and knowledge in hopes that you will read it and either put it in practice, challenge me, or simply make me see another point of view. This past year has ...