Category: Resources
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Salesforce buys Radian6 for $340 million
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 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″ [...]
HP’s Apotheker pushes company’s new growth strategy
At the Tuesday AlwaysON OnDemand conference at their headquarters, Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Leo Apotheker continued to outline his strategy to outperform rivals including IBM and Oracle. HP intends to increase its involvement in the rapidly expanding cloud computing market by running next-generation data centers for large enterprise customers. According to Apotheker, his goal is “to [...]
Cisco to bolster cloud offerings through acquisition of newScale
Cisco plans to build its cloud services capabilities by its acquisition of newScale, a cloud portal software developer with about 2 million users worldwide. NewScale is a privately held company that develops software which enables businesses to more efficiently provision resources across their IT environments. Through its service catalog and self-service portal, newScale enables IT [...]
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 [...]
Federal Risk and Authorization Program (FedRAMP)
The Federal Risk and Authorization Program, or FedRAMP), is a “risk management program for large outsourced and multi-agency information systems used by the U.S. government. The program was created by the Federal Government in response to the unique security demands of the cloud computing environment. The main purpose of FedRAMP is to facilitate the [...]
Close to forty percent of small businesses planning cloud computing – Microsoft.
According to Microsoft, 39 percent of small businesses intend to buy one or more cloud computing services over the next three years. This is a conclusion from Microsoft’s third annual worldwide study into how small and medium businesses plan to use cloud-based resources in the next three years. The study indicates that SME’s will [...]
More Healthcare Providers Set To Embrace Cloud
Healthcare is slowly moving into the cloud computing technology space, with experts predicting that it’s just be a matter of time until the off-shoring of content, data, and applications in this industry become the norm. Hospitals and medical care providers have not been that quick in the uptake of offsite data management systems due to [...]
Is Box.net The Facebook Of Cloud computing?
A relatively new player in the cloud computing business, Box.net, is making big waves these days, with many drawing parallels between the company and Facebook. Like the most popular social networking site in the world, Box.net is the brainchild of a college dropout, 26-year old Aaron Levie, who was previously enrolled in the University of [...]
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 [...]
