Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software firm RightScale announced today that the firm is partnering with a number of other software providers to deliver business intelligence software on its cloud management platform. RightScale said its software can automatically configure the software from those vendors, deploy it into the cloud. RightScale said it is unveiling the new product with Jaspersoft, Talend, and Vertica, which integrates technology from those firms for the business intelligence market. RightScale is venture backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital.

Aliso Viejo-based 3Tera , a developer of cloud computing software and services, announced Thursday that the firm has upgraded its AppLogic cloud computing platform. Tags: 3tera cloud computing application According to the firm, the updated platform includes automated diagnostics and self-healing features, including ability to monitor and detect hard drives issues; automatic volume repair; improved server isolation; and soft restarts of the system. 3Tera's software is used to manage virtual data center services, including deploying web applications and

Now entrepreneurs can write some code and purchase bandwidth, encoding, storage and many other services in bite sizes at a fraction of the cost and time. Companies like RightScale (Santa Barbara company recently funded by Benchmark) are providing a critical management console for cloud computing services to insure availability and reliability. I predict a bright future in Southern California for cloud computing software companies who are providing the "picks" and "shovels" to media companies. ...Tags: Encoding, Storage, Load Balancing and many other web infrastructure services are now all accessible to just about any businesses in bite sizes.

Now entrepreneurs can write some code and purchase bandwidth, encoding, storage and many other services in bite sizes at a fraction of the cost and time. Companies like RightScale (Santa Barbara company recently funded by Benchmark) are providing a critical management console for cloud computing services to insure availability and reliability. I predict a bright future in Southern California for cloud computing software companies who are providing the "picks" and "shovels" to media companie Encoding, Storage, Load Balancing and many other web infrastructure services are now all accessible to just about any businesses in bite sizes.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 -- Cloud Computing. In our October 2008 meeting our topic of discussion is "Cloud Computing" with special guest speaker Damon Young, Sales Director of ProjectLocker.com, during this meetup we will briefly cover what cloud computing is and how the hosting industry is currently monetizing such a solution. LA Web Hosting Group Meetup. See [link] (mor

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 -- Cloud Computing : Impact on Business and Architecture. Come for a discussion on how Cloud Computing can be leveraged to create a new class of solutions that are more connected, dynamic, and can allow business to drive cost down, yet enable unlimited potential services. Cloud computing is a disruptive force that has the potential to change everything, but how do we take advantage of it? At Microsoft, cloud computing is a major component of a technology strategy and platform, and a rich and massively scalable cloud platform called the Azure Services Platform was just unveiled at PDC by Ray Ozzie (Ray?s

Thursday, September 24, 2009 -- "Cloud Computing - Balancing Risk and Benefit" TechExecs Los Angeles CIO Panel Forum. Panel: Phil Dixon, VP Engineering, Shopzilla; Alex Godelman, VP Technology, Gorilla Nation; Veronica Caban, Dir Server Ops, Universal Music Group; Brian Wood, Infrastructure Engineering, Jet Propulsion Labs. See [link] (mor

Thursday, January 22, 2009 -- "eDiscovery and Cloud Computing" CTC. Not quite historic as the inauguration, but still ground-breaking -- together we'll Demystify 2 Pertinent Topics: eDiscovery and Cloud Computing. In addition to weighing the facts and engaging the Cloud Computing experts - you'll also hear "Tales from a White Collar Crime Investigator" from someone who examined high-profile matters related to Enron, The Hells' Angels and the Iran Contra scandal. See [link] (mor

Aliso Viejo-based 3Tera , a provider of cloud computing services and technology, said this week that it has rolled out a new marketplace for production-ready software. According to 3Tera, its new 3Tera AppStore will allow enterprise users, software vendors, and others to sell production-ready cloud components, based on its cloud computing services. 3Tera runs a service which allows The firm said the new marketplace will allow companies to offer components such as pre-configured web servers, databases, and applications along with datacenter infrastructure such as firewalls and switches to others.

The financial industry has given a sophisticated name to this new industry and we call it "Cloud Computing". cloud computin Who would have thought 10 years ago when online retailers Webvan, Etoys and Amazon were founded that one of these companies could eventually rival Microsoft, Oracle and Sun? During this 10 year period enterprise software licenses have been reduced by 1/10 from around $250,000 to $25,000 while bandwidth capacity has increased 100X from dial up speeds of 56k to greater than 5GB.