Here’s a cautionary tale of what can happen when your connection to that data is pulled because of accusations that you violated Terms of Service. Google Apps user Dylan M. was a happy user (and evangelist it seems) of numerous Google services — until the company disabled his Google account. On July 15 he received [...]
written by Gwen Davis of Web Hosting Search 2011 showed us that the cloud is here to stay but for those who are cloud host skeptics there is a massive growth in hybrid cloud computing to help you test the waters. So what is hybrid cloud computing? Hybrid clouds is a combination of private and [...]
Were there ever a near-ideal case study demonstrating the merits of cloud computing, the United States government would provide exhibit 1A. Since moving portions of the national data infrastructure to the cloud, federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra says the government has saved $3 billion in less than five months. This and other IT streamlining [...]
You’d have to be living under a rock to have escaped the buzz being created by cloud computing. For businesses the cloud can offer tremendous benefits. But it also presents significant challenges for both clients and service providers. To the IT fraternity, it’s the biggest thing since portable hard-drives. Cloud computing – the industry darling [...]
Infrastructure management is becoming more important in a dynamic business environment, but it is also becoming more time-consuming and complex. Despite this growing complexity, though, the right business infrastructure can help you optimize your IT efficiency, minimize costs, and help you respond quickly to industry changes. There has been a growing trend to use off-site [...]
Silicon Valley startup Tilera says the new chip design it intends to unveil later this year will deliver 10 times the capacity and be more energy-efficient than Intel’s best microprocessor. Its design, which will pack 100 microprocessors, or cores, onto a single thumbnail-size piece of silicon, will result in faster, energy-efficient computers capable of performing [...]
Red Hat, Inc. on Thursday announced that NTT Communications has expanded its Biz Hosting Basic cloud computing and hosting service through the expanded deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Raleigh NC based Red Hat first partnered with NTT Communications in the cloud in April 2010, with NTT joining Red Hat’s growing cloud [...]
Just as the widespread adoption of the Internet and the World Wide Web have brought their risks alongside their rewards, so the explosion of cloud computing also presents its unique challenges to individuals and organizations signing up for cloud based services. The decision to outsource part of an organization’s IT department to a cloud-based service [...]
The Obama administration unveiled plans to shut down more than 100 of its 2,094 data centers by December 2011. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told a Senate subcommittee today that this year the U.S. government could shut down 100 of the 800 data centers it intends to close by 2015. Mr. Kundra who is [...]
Microsoft has announced that it will be spending 90% of its $9.6 billion research budget on improving cloud computing technologies. In a statement by President Jean-Phillipe Courtois, the company outlined its strategic vision to engage with more small and medium-sized enterprises and boost its market share and make gains on its rival providers Salesforce.com, Oracle [...]
UC San Diego Health System trauma patients are experiencing the benefits of cloud computing in the form of expedited care via an electronic, cloud-based approach to sharing radiology files with other medical institutions. The method is now being used to expedite the diagnosis and treatment of patients sent to UC San Diego Medical Center-Hillcrest from [...]
The TechAmerica Foundation has appointed Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier and Salesforce.com CEO and Chairman Marc Benioff to its commission on the leadership opportunity in US deployment of the Cloud. The Commission, known as CLOUD2 seeks to make recommendations on how the US government should deploy cloud technologies and “address policies that might hinder US leadership [...]
Online retail giant Amazon has built a top-500 supercomputer in its cloud. Amazon’s cluster contained 7,040 processing cores and achieved speeds of 41.82 teraflops ranking it as the 231st fastest supercomputer in the world. The cluster ran the Linux OS on Intel Xeon X5570 processors with a 10 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect, and was de-provisioned soon [...]
The National Institute of Standards (NIST) and the General Services Administration (GSA) have announced that they will release concrete information to assist agencies in adopting cloud computing technology, before the end of 2011. In an April 7 announcement at a cloud computing workshop at the agency offices in Gaithersburg, MD, Dawn Leaf, senior executive for [...]
FiberMedia, the Secaucus NJ data center operator, on Thursday announced the successful launch of its Managed Cloud Platform. The new product launch came shortly after FiberMedia announced major upgrades to its data center facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey and Westchester, New York. Michael Bucheit, CEO of FiberMedia, while making the announcement said, “We realize that [...]
A new report by global market intelligence firm IDC projects an upsurge in the adoption of cloud services in the Asia Pacific region in 2011. The report, ‘Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Cloud Services and Technologies 2011 Top 10 Predictions: Dealing with Mainstream Cloud’ indicates that the use of cloud technologies for IT infrastructure is expected to accelerate rapidly [...]
In 1986, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), with the admonition that “privacy protections must advance with technology, or privacy will gradually erode as technology advances.” The committee again met Wednesday to deliberate over updates to the aging law. Chairman of the committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), said that “while [...]
Dell is jumping headlong into the cloud computing fray with Wednesday’s commitment to spend $1 billion on a global network of ten data centers to host its cloud computing services. With rivals such as Cisco, Amazon, IBM and HP already strongly established in the market, Dell’s strategic plan to up its game will intensify the [...]
CA Technologies April 6th announced it acquisition of Base Technologies, a government IT consulting firm. With this move, CA bolsters its virtualization and mainframe technology offerings as well as services to government agencies and healthcare providers. The move will also add consulting expertise in cloud computing and infrastructure engineering. Base has been a long-established supplier [...]
Microsoft and Toyota have come together in a joint venture to build in-car services that will run on Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. The new features should begin to in Toyota’s electric and plug-in hybrid cars in 2012. Toyota intends to offer a full range of cooud servces to all its automobile customers by 2015. [...]
Cycle Computing had recently provisioned a 10,000 core supercomputer in the cloud using its CycleCloud service. The computational power of the cluster places it in the top 114th of the world’s Supercomputers. Founded in 2005, the company has assisted customers in maximizing their computing resources with its reliable, secure and highly scalable HPC (high performance [...]
The IEEE on Monday launched a cloud computing initiative that seeks to set standards for cloud interoperability. To this end, the organization has announced two working groups, under the chairmanship of David Bernstein. One group P2301, is chartered to draft a standard for establishing portability, or the ability of a workload sent to one cloud [...]
VMware is expanding its presence in the cloud computing market with the acquisition of EMC’s Mozy cloud-based data protection service. The deal was announced Monday by VMWare’s CTO Steve Herrod. According to a blog by Herrod, “VMware will operate the Mozy service on behalf of EMC without interruption”. No financial figures were mentioned for the [...]
Texas Instruments announced Monday that it would buy longtime rival national Semiconductor for $6.5billion in cash. The deal, which is expected to close in six to nine months, sees Texas Instruments paying a substantial 78% premium at $25 a share to acquire National’s portfolio of 12,000 products. The addition will result in a joint portfolio [...]
Security has been one of the major stumbling blocks which has prevented cloud computing from achieving wide acceptance from the business community. Threats in offsite infrastructure are vastly different from the ones that you encounter in traditional onsite management facilities. Different approaches that would involve both vendors and buyers need to be employed when dealing [...]
Storage Guardian Cloud Computing is now offering a new metered service wherein customers will only have to pay for the cloud computing services they use, much like they would do for something like Pay-as-you-go telephone services. This new product that the company has launched in the market will allow businesses to gain access to enterprise-grade [...]
IBM has announced that it will build a new $38 million datacenter in Singapore to provide cloud computing solutions and services to businesses in India. The new data center is scheduled for launch in April, and will deploy IBM’s cloud services and technology portfolio, according to a statement from the technology giant. The new datacenter [...]
Rackspace, Equinix, and Dell on Wednesday announced a partnership to offer an OpenStack demonstration and test environment to customers. This test environment will enable the customers move cloud assets between data centers in different regions, and will be the first implementation of geographically dispersed data centers running OpenStack. In making the announcement, Vince DiMemmo, Equinix [...]
Salesforce.com has announced its fourth acquisition in as many months, with the purchase of Canadian startup Radian6 for $340 million in cash and stock. The deal, according to Wednesday’s announcement, will be concluded by July 31 2011 with the payment of about $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock for the company. The [...]
The switch to the cloud and the mobile Internet marks a “tectonic shift” to a “technology supercycle,” said Mark Murphy, a Piper Jaffray analyst. He sees the cloud software market growing 23.9% annually over five years vs. 4.7% for the broader software sector. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls this the start of the “Cloud 2″ [...]
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