Lunacloud was a proud sponsor of Google DevFest in Lisbon, last Friday and Saturday (1st and 2nd March). Hugo Tavares, CTO of Lunacloud, was also present as a speaker… he grabbed the audience with its “Underneath the cloud: unleashing infrastructure” presentation!

200 top developers worked day and night on their projects and some have used Lunacloud’s Cloud Servers and Cloud Storage… and the winners were:

Paulo, with a “Hack on AWS Java SDK” to work with Lunacloud’s Cloud Storage, part of a bigger project to index and search documents. Quite a promising work, let’s keep a touch with the development! Luís and Igor, with “Remote app control with [...]

The Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers offer businesses all over the world server and storage resources, that follow the Cloud Computing concept as defined by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). Cloud is nowadays a very generic and over-hyped term, but it is important to summarize what a pure Cloud offer must include: On-demand self-service (the ability for you to decide when you need the resources available), Broad network access (available everywhere, through the Internet), Resource pooling (the providers computing resources are shared amongst multiple customers), Rapid elasticity (scale up or down, quickly, when needed), Measured service (pay only for what you use in terms or resources units, like GB, CPU, …).

From these characteristics, I would emphasize three: On-demand self-service, Rapid elasticity and Measured service. When you choose your provider, make [...]

It’s official! Dell released a class study with Lunacloud.
Aiming to provide better price, performance and flexibility, Lunacloud relied on Dell servers, storage and networking technology, on which it developed its virtualization, automation and simple user-interface layers, to provide competitive cloud infrastructure services, such as Cloud Servers (compute capacity from less than €0.02 per hour) and Cloud Storage (unlimited virtual disk for €0.07 per GB per month).
We’re happy to announce that, recognizing its importance on Lunacloud’s offer, Dell recently described in more detail the use of its technology to deliver a scalable cloud service, in a case study entitled “Dramatic growth for cloud service with scalable solution“.

As technology makes the world a smaller place, it also makes it a more competitive one; developing countries are making good use of cloud computing to earn their spot in the global markets and prove worthy competitors. The accessibility and affordability of cloud computing is unprecedented in technology and business, thus providing enormous opportunity for growth, profit and influence.

Affordability

Cloud computing is cost efficient across continents, enabling a third world country the same opportunities as those available in the developed world. With scalability and data leveraging capacity virtually unlimited, new players are emerging and holding their own against the most recognized and formidable industry regulars. Long-standing barriers in operating costs are vaporized by the ease of availability in cloud based models and the opportunities are being seized readily.

Poorer countries have usually been denied access to new technology and [...]