Archive for November, 2010
Microsoft Supporting Cloud Open Source Code For Hyper-V
The software giant says its customers don’t necessarily want a single hypervisor cloud, so it’s supporting OpenStack. Cloud computing has progressed on multiple fronts over the past week, and one of the most interesting advances is the fact that Microsoft has decided to support the open source project Open Stack. OpenStack, you may remember, was [...]
Guest Post – Security in the Cloud – the way to go?
Estimates by Gartner show that the software as a service (SaaS) market is expected to grow to 18% by 2013, up from 6% of software sales in 2007. This indicates that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which wish to secure their corporate network using the latest technologies but have a tight budget or limited IT [...]
Cloud Computing Defies Lock-In at the Web 2.0 Summit
Interesting… Clouds are amorphous. They don’t have well-defined boundaries. So it is with cloud computing, though that didn’t stop a few leading cloud computing vendors from trying to nail the concept down. On Tuesday at the Web 2.0 Summit, O’Reilly Media founder and conference co-chair Tim O’Reilly plumbed the depths of the cloud with Paul [...]
Important questions about whether you should move your business to the cloud
Interesting article from Phillip Mckinney at Forbes Magazine The world is abuzz over cloud computing–using virtual servers available on demand over the Internet. But the truth is not every small business needs to operate “in the cloud.” Before you make the move, consider these five criteria, care of Philip McKinney, vice president and chief technology [...]
Amazon Web Services Takes Advantage of GPUs in the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows users of its cloud computing platform to take advantage of the extra power graphics processing units (GPUs) can give. The company hopes the move will attract high-performance computing applications to its service. AWS has added a new Cluster GPU instance to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, which provides [...]
Microsoft adds data crunching features to Azure
Big data is the growing field of crunching giant batches of data, such as gene sequencing, interpreting seismic data, streaming 3-D video and financial modeling. People who are trying to build software that makes sense of this data are meeting at the Supercomputing 2010 conference in New Orleans this week. The problem with big data, [...]
Microsoft Finds Cloud Computing Is Good for the Environment
By comparing on-premises business applications to cloud-based equivalents, the researchers found that cloud computing has positive effects on the environment, especially if you are a small company. A Microsoft study bears out what environmentally-conscious companies have hoped for all along: cloud computing has the potential to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions by 30 percent [...]
