Category: Infrastructure
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cloud Computing Attempts To Reshape Communications By 2020
If John Donovan, the current Chief Technology Officer of AT&T is right, then we will all be able to throw away our mobile devices in just 10 years time. According to Donovan, future technology will allow us to store on cloud platforms our personal information, contact numbers, email addresses and many other kinds of data [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Holy Cow! Autonomy private cloud hits 17 petabytes
Autonomy is a software and infrastructure company that was a wide range of offerings including running a private cloud for storing information and other uses for its customers. The company has announced that its private cloud computing platform has hit an impressive milestone. The private cloud now manages more than 17 petabytes of information. That [...]
Minnesota moves e-mail to Microsoft’s cloud
Minnesota said Tuesday that it is moving its messaging and collaboration services to Microsoft’s cloud computing platform in an effort to address multiple issues — including an aging workforce, increasing red ink and a desire for shared services. Approximately 33,000 state workers in Minnesota will be affected by the move, which could be one of [...]
Minnesota moves e-mail to Microsoft's cloud
Minnesota said Tuesday that it is moving its messaging and collaboration services to Microsoft’s cloud computing platform in an effort to address multiple issues — including an aging workforce, increasing red ink and a desire for shared services. Approximately 33,000 state workers in Minnesota will be affected by the move, which could be one of [...]
Microsoft delivers on-premises private-cloud building functionality
When it comes to building private clouds, Microsoft is planning to offer customers two ways to go: One using its Windows Azure cloud operating system on forthcoming pre-configured Windows Azure Appliances; and one assembled of various on-premises components atop Windows Server. On August 15, Microsoft made available the final version of one of the building [...]
Google cloud computing apps get certification for US government use
Google wants the federal government to use its e-mail. The company earned federal certification last week for its cloud-based e-mail, calendar and other collaboration applications after the General Services Administration determined they met moderate-level federal security requirements. It’s the first cloud-based suite to earn such accreditation and serves as an impetus for the Mountain View, [...]
Big Blue will work with governments and academia on “fundamentally new notion” of an interoperation hub.
IBM said it plans to collaborate with European researchers to develop a computing architecture that will allow businesses to more easily blend cloud services from multiple providers. The effort aims to overcome one of the largest obstacles to broad adoption of cloud computing—complex and expensive integration work. “Up until now, organizations have had to invest [...]
Big Blue will work with governments and academia on "fundamentally new notion" of an interoperation hub.
IBM said it plans to collaborate with European researchers to develop a computing architecture that will allow businesses to more easily blend cloud services from multiple providers. The effort aims to overcome one of the largest obstacles to broad adoption of cloud computing—complex and expensive integration work. “Up until now, organizations have had to invest [...]
Guest Blog: The Cloud Understands Geography
***This is a guest blog post from Patrick Jobin of Storagepipe.com. The views in this post do not necessarily reflect the opinions of CloudComputingZone.com. If you are would like to guest blog for us, use our contact form and send us your submission*** I think that, by this point, most of the suspicion and distrust [...]
Smartphones are the Cloud’s Secret Ingredient
A new survey reveals that many experts feel that cloud computing and smartphones go together like vodka and Red Bull. What does that mean for IT managers? Fasten your seat belts, we’re in for a bumpy ride. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project recently conducted the fourth iteration of its “Future of [...]
Microsoft Cloud Computing Center opens in Taiwan
Microsoft opened a joint cloud computing center with Taiwan’s economics ministry on Thursday at the Computex electronics show, and announced a plan to work with two local companies on new designs for servers meant specifically for cloud computing, the growing trend towards decentralized, virtualized computing services. When the project was first announced last November, officials [...]
Cloud Computing in Moscow
I had the privilege of keynoting a data center conference in Moscow this week, speaking on the topic of what cloud computing means to the data center of the future. This is the largest data center conference in Russia, and attracts a mix of internal data center facilities executives as well as hosting providers. The [...]
HP to invest $1 billion in cloud computing and cut 9,000 jobs
The world’s biggest PC manufacturer Hewlett-Packard will cut 9,000 jobs and invest $1 billion to develop the next generation of cloud computing services, according to a statement Tuesday. HP said it will invest $1 billion to create fully automated commercial data centers and expand its enterprise services unit over a multiyear period. The cuts are [...]
