Category: Cloud Computing News
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
The Cloud 2 Era – Cloud computing enters a new growth phase
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″ [...]
Cloud Computing model cannibalizes traditional vendor revenue streams
The marketplace has witnessed a burgeoning demand for cloud computing as companies seek out computer infrastructure, software and storage to be provided as a utility service. With the market for cloud computing services growing rapidly, vendors face the challenge of reworking their revenue models so as not to lose profits to the new paradigm. However [...]
Ninefold launches public beta of its local cloud-based storage
Ninefold, a subsidiary of Macquarie Telecom, has launched its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, which will be offered free until the end of March 2011. While aimed primarily at entrepreneurs, start-ups and developers, managing director Peter James said that the company is also making the service available to storage hungry ‘mums and dads’. Pricing [...]
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 [...]
Sktyap To Offer Hybrid Computing Services To Customers
Skytap, a cloud computing firm based out of Seattle, Washington has recently developed a program that will allow their customers more flexibility and autonomy in using the company’s infrastructure. Called the Skytap Hybrid Cloud, this revolutionary product allows users to interface their own data with Skytap’s data management infrastructure. In addition, users also have the [...]
Cloud Computing and Patent Trolls: How To Prepare Now
Here’s the scenario: Your IT team writes a web service, and part of its WSDL interface includes a hash algorithm the team came up with on their own. You publish the API and your business partners use your clever little hash in integrating with across cloud services. Years later, you get a letter from a [...]
A great Cloud Computing Industry synopsis
I love this bunch of paragraphs from Phil Wainewright of ZDNET. He captures the essence of the Cloud dilemma perfectly… The further that SaaS vendors penetrate into the higher echelons of enterprise computing, the more they’re accused, like the pigs running the show at the end of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, of becoming just like [...]
Softbank Telecom partners with VMware
TOKYO (Nikkei)–Softbank Telecom Corp. said Tuesday it has formed an alliance with U.S.-based cloud computing giant VMware Inc. The telecommunications operator will adopt VMware’s technology to offer cloud computing services to corporate clients starting in July. Softbank Telecom is the first Japanese firm to offer cloud services certified by VMware and the seventh overall, following [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health’s Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
VMware Streamlines Electronic Medical Record Delivery Through Spectrum Health's Cloud Computing Environment
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – February 22, 2011) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Spectrum Health has chosen VMware ThinApp™ to provide fast and efficient access to point-of-care applications, electronic medical records (EMR) and patient data from their cloud computing environment. Spectrum Health, a premier national [...]
Why Aren’t More Businesses Embracing The Cloud?
There’s a lot of confusion today about cloud computing and the supposed cost benefits that it offers. According to an interesting piece by Alok Misra in Information Week, many companies don’t seem to understand where these reduced costs come from. The reason is that many enterprises right now are not able to distinguish between on-site [...]
Why Aren't More Businesses Embracing The Cloud?
There’s a lot of confusion today about cloud computing and the supposed cost benefits that it offers. According to an interesting piece by Alok Misra in Information Week, many companies don’t seem to understand where these reduced costs come from. The reason is that many enterprises right now are not able to distinguish between on-site [...]
Virtualization Can be key to Cloud Security, RSA Chief says
Virtualization technologies can help enable better security and control in cloud computing environments, RSA chief Art Coviello said today. In a keynote address at the RSA Security Conference here, Coviello struck an optimistic tone on cloud security issues. While he acknowledged some of the concerns enterprises might have about moving data and applications to the [...]
Bold Claims From Google But Are They Real Foresight Or Just Empty Threats?
Recently, Google Apps, the web-based operating system product from Google, ran a four page ad in the Economist magazine, in an effort to stir up more interest from users and businesses all over. Since its inception in 2007, the company boasts a subscription base of more than 3,000,000 users that continues to grow by 3,000 [...]
Cloud Computing Predicted To Become Mainstream Soon
IDC, a recognized analyst firm, is predicting that cloud computing will become mainstream in just a few years time. This prediction is based on their collected data of buying trends and computing patterns. IDC is forecasting that during 2011, cloud computing services will outpace other IT products and offerings by up to five times. They [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
