Onuora Amobi
Onuora Amobi is the founder and CEO of Nnigma, a leading online marketing firm headquartered in Pasadena, California. A Microsoft MVP with close to two decades of IT experience, he is also the co-author of the Windows 7 Deployment Guide for small businesses and IT Professionals(http://www.windows7deploymentguide.com).
Be careful when you use the cloud…
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 [...]
Hybrids: Crossing the Bridge to the Clouds
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 [...]
U.S. Feds: Ultimate Cloud Computing Cheerleader
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 [...]
Cloudy with a chance of services
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 [...]
5 Components of Effective IT Infrastructure Management
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 [...]
Tilera’s new Chip a Threat to Intel?
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 Firms Up Cloud Computing Collaboration with NTT Communication
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 [...]
Cloud Computing Introduces New Security Issues
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 [...]
Cloud Enables Federal Government to Shut 100 Data Centers in 2011
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 to spend 90% of its Research Budget on Cloud computing
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 [...]
Cloud computing speeds trauma care at UC San Diego Health System.
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 [...]
Rackspace, Salesforce.com executives appointed to US Cloud Computing Commission
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 [...]
Amazon builds top-500 supercomputer in the cloud
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 [...]
NIST and GSA to release cloud guidance before the end of 2011
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 launches Managed Cloud Computing platform
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 [...]
IDC projects Asia-Pacific upsurge in Cloud Services adoption in 2011
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 [...]
US Senate considers changes to Electronic Privacy Law
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 to invest $1 Billion in new Cloud Infrastructure
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 Acquires Base Technologies to Boost Government and Healthcare Business
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 in Cloud Computing Partnership
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 creates top 114th Supercomputer in the Cloud
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 [...]
IEEE works towards cloud interoperability standards.
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 acquires EMC’s Mozy
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 to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5billion
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 [...]
Lesser Known Threats Of Cloud Computing
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 Now Offering Metered Cloud Services
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 announces $38 million data center in Singapore
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 form partnership to deploy OpenStack cloud platform
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 [...]
Cloud Connect To Tackle Enterprise Challenges
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon Web Services, and other leading advocates of cloud computing will be speaking at the second-annual Cloud Connect show, March 7 to 10 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. Whether the cloud has evolved into a secure and reliable adjunct to data center operations is likely to be [...]
Apple North Carolina data center starts this spring
Apple’s ambitions to boost its cloud-computing prowess got a significant push as its $1 billion data center in North Carolina approaches its opening date this spring. AppleInsider which was present at Apple’s annual shareholders meeting reported that the North Carolina data center will be Apple’s second data center. The new data center is five times [...]
