Archive for January, 2011
CSC To Offer New 'Cloud-In-A-Box'
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) wants to grow its small cloud-computing business by building cloud systems at its customers’ offices. On Feb. 2, the Falls Church, Va.-based IT consultancy plans to unveil BizCloud, cloud-computing hardware and software it will assemble in about 10 weeks at a client’s facility. Like data-center-based cloud services, BizCloud [...]
CSC To Offer New ‘Cloud-In-A-Box’
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) wants to grow its small cloud-computing business by building cloud systems at its customers’ offices. On Feb. 2, the Falls Church, Va.-based IT consultancy plans to unveil BizCloud, cloud-computing hardware and software it will assemble in about 10 weeks at a client’s facility. Like data-center-based cloud services, BizCloud [...]
Effectively Manage Storage and Protect Data in the Cloud
Organizations of all sizes have to deal with an economic reality when it comes to cloud computing: cloud computing requires storage. These budgets continue to remain relatively flat even as demand for cloud storage capacity grows at a rate of nearly 60 percent per year. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Stephen Wojtowecz explains how organizations can [...]
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Amazing Amazon S3 statistics
Amazon Web Services said this week that its S3 cloud storage service housed 262 billion objects at year-end of 2010, more than doubling in size from 102 billion objects at the close of 2009. The peak request rate for S3 is now in excess of 200,000 requests per second, according to Amazon’s Jeff Barr. Read [...]
Database Gurus Tackle Cloud Computing Challenges
The challenges cloud computing presents to database technology came into focus Friday during the New England Database Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One talk by University of Massachusetts researcher Emmanuel Cecchet centered on Dolly, a system focused on dynamic provisioning of database resources in the cloud. Cloud-based deployments work particularly well for Web [...]
Take your app security with you to the cloud
Great article from Bill Pennington Cloud computing is becoming a fundamental part of information technology. Nearly every enterprise is evaluating or deploying cloud solutions. Even as business managers turn to the cloud to reduce costs, streamline staff, and increase efficiencies, they remain wary about the security of their applications. Many companies express concern about turning [...]
Former Salesforce.com Execs Form Cloud Startup, Okta
Former execs from Salesforce.com have launched a startup in the enterprise cloud computing business, with initial clients Pandora and Enterasys. Based out of San Francisco, Okta provides an enterprise solution intended to make it easy for companies to manage cloud computing apps and users; particularly useful as a company grows in headcount and adopts more [...]
How Cloud Computing Changes IT Staffs
A good friend who spent years selling to CIOs once commented about CIO priorities “They can only focus on three big things, and two of them are budgets and people, so don’t expect that it’s easy making your widget a top priority within the organization.” There’s a lot of wisdom in Abbie’s and my friend’s [...]
Video:UP2010 Virtual Cloud Conference – Microsoft’s PaaS Solution
Get a tour of the Platform as a Service offering from Microsoft, shared at the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event by Niraj Nagrani Director in the SQL Azure team. You will learn of the fundamental building blocks such as compute, non-relational storage, relational storage, identity and access control
Video: UP2010 Virtual Cloud Conference – Windows Azure Security Essentials for Technology Decision Makers
Security is a huge topic in any discussion regarding the public cloud. This session from the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event is led by Distinguished Engineer Yousef Khalidi. It provides a terrific walk thru of how to think thru security considerations in general and for the Windows Azure Platform specifically.
Hewlett-Packard Co. launches portfolio of private cloud services
Hewlett-Packard Co. this week stepped up its cloud computing effort by launching a portfolio of private cloud services, hardware and software and indicated plans to jump into public cloud hosting. The company has lacked a strong cloud computing focus but now intends to move forward more aggressively, HP officials said. HP will do so by offering various [...]
Verizon to buy Terremark for $1.4 billion
Verizon is set to buy Terremark, an information technology services company, for $1.4 billion, part of an effort from the wireless carrier to boost its cloud-computing abilities. The purchase offer of $19 a share in cash is a 35% premium over Terremark’s Thursday closing stock price of $14.05 a share. In a filing submitted to the Securities [...]
Cloud Computing: Start-up Promises Free Elastic Cloud Security
A year-old Silicon Valley SaaS start-up called CloudPassages broke cover Wednesday claiming that it can do what other security companies have failed to do and that’s protect elastic cloud servers. It’ll get off the ground by offering its base technology for free. The company’s purpose-built widgetry is supposed to work with anybody’s cloud – public [...]
HP cloud computing comes to the UK
HP is making its biggest move into cloud computing with the introduction of private and public cloud infrastructure and services hosted in the UK. Unveiling Enterprise Cloud Services-Compute, the company said the new technology allows UK businesses to store and process data in HP datacentres in hosted private clouds or in a multi-tenancy public cloud [...]
Intel To Open Cloud Computing Research Center At Stanford, Will Invest $100M In University Research
Intel Labs is opening up its deep pockets once again today, announcing a $100 million cash investment in U.S. university research over the next 5 years. The company plans to develop and open several branded “Intel Science and Technology Centers” at a number of universities for sponsored research and innovation throughout 2011. The first Center [...]
Amazon Launches Bulk cloud computing E-Mail Service
Amazon Web Services Jan. 25 launched a bulk e-mail service for businesses and developers, providing a messaging option for the cloud computing provider’s arsenal of Web-based services. AWS intends Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) as an alternative to the thorny work of building a custom messaging platform or licensing an e-mail service from a [...]
Ireland could create 8,600 jobs with cloud computing adoption
Thousands of IT jobs could be created in Ireland if the country takes advantage of the rise in cloud computing, according to a new report published by Microsoft. Around 8,600 new roles may be generated if Ireland acts now to be a part an industry that could be worth around 40 billion euros (£34.22 billion) [...]
IBM slated To Build Asia’s Largest Cloud Computing Data Center
International Business Machines’ ever-expanding cloud computing services will continue development in Asia. The company announced it is collaborating with Range Technology Development, out of China, to build a state of the art cloud computing data center in Langfang City in Hebei province. It will be the largest cloud computing center in Asia, says IBM. “This [...]
More Businesses are Spending money on Cloud Computing
Cloud computing and managed hosting spending by U.S. businesses will surpass $13 billion in 2014, up from less than $3 billion, according to a new In-Stat report. “Although spending across all sectors and size of business is projected to grow, there are some segments where growth will be staggering,” said Greg Potter, research analyst. “The [...]
Six Ways To Fail In The Cloud
Our 2011 InformationWeek Analytics State of Cloud Computing Survey shows a 67 percent increase in the number of companies using cloud services, up from 18 percent in February 2009 and 30 percent in October 2010. IT now has a choice: Grab ownership of what’s poised to be a core part of the enterprise technology toolset, or [...]
FedEx CIO Explains The Power Of Cloud
Leave it to Rob Carter, the CIO of FedEx, to clarify what’s really powerful about cloud computing. Carter, the company’s CIO since 2000 and an InformationWeek advisory board member for almost as long, has a knack for discussing technology in a way that cuts to the business payoff, but without leaning on buzzwords that whitewash the [...]
Rackspace brings the cloud to the UK
Rackspace today officially announced the extension of its cloud computing infrastructure into the UK, with several services provided from datacentres in the country designed to reassure organisations with strict data protection and service level requirements. The hosting firm, which is Amazon Web Services’ main rival in the cloud computing space, will be offering its cloud-based [...]
Cloud Computing: Is China a Friend or Foe?
The state visit to Washington DC by President Hu Jintao last week was the first by a Chinese leader since 1997, and closes a long loop that began almost 40 years ago–when President Richard Nixon visited Chairman Mao Tse-Tung-in a way that Chinese President Jiang Zemin’s 1997 meeting with President Bill Clinton did not. In [...]
Microsoft Moves Against Salesforce
Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM Online, the cloud version of its Dynamics CRM 2011 and a Salesforce competitor, has finally escaped its North American boundaries and is now available worldwide. Well, in at least 40 markets at any rate. Microsoft is apparently expecting a good deal of switching to go on, or it’s hoping so. To egg [...]
'Lighter-weight' technologies favoured as research reveals flat global 2011 IT budgets.
Cloud computing and virtualization are the top two technology priorities for CIOs in 2011, according to the results of a survey published on Friday by Gartner that revealed global IT budgets are likely to remain largely flat this year. Networking, voice and data communications – traditionally the domain of telcos – ranks sixth in the [...]
‘Lighter-weight’ technologies favoured as research reveals flat global 2011 IT budgets.
Cloud computing and virtualization are the top two technology priorities for CIOs in 2011, according to the results of a survey published on Friday by Gartner that revealed global IT budgets are likely to remain largely flat this year. Networking, voice and data communications – traditionally the domain of telcos – ranks sixth in the [...]
Amazon releases Elastic Beanstalk
Beanstalk,” a new free service to make it easier for application developers to use the company’s suite of cloud-based computing services. “Developers simply upload their application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring,” the company said this morning in announcing the service. “At the [...]
New Enterprise paradigm is Cloud + Apps
A growing storm of enterprise apps is blowing in wind bringing with it new provisioning models. “We’ll see a move away from the ‘build’ to the ‘buy’ mentality, as many enterprises move away from custom to packaged applications,” said Rikke Helms, managing director of the Global Telecom division and vice president of the EMEA region [...]
Speculation is rampant that Microsoft Server Chief was fired over Cloud Strategy
This is getting interesting to watch. The latest speculation about Microsoft and Azure… Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have dismissed Bob Muglia from his role as head of the company’s $15 billion Server and Tools Business unit because he felt Muglia was not the right individual to lead Redmond into the cloud computing age, according [...]
