Category: Performance
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Cloud Computing Affects The Real World
There are many cloud computing products in the market right now, however awareness for them is not that yet widespread. Cloud computing may appear intimidating to ordinary computer users, which explains why there is not that much knowledge about it yet. However there are many benefits that can be gained from it. From the ground [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kristin’s Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
Kristin's Top 10 Cloud Computing Blogs
The best way to stay on top of any industry or topic is to read and learn from the best. At Backupify, we do the same in order to share the most up-to-date and relevant information on cloud computing with you and to continuously improve our own service offering. We can’t be selfish about learning [...]
Oracle cloud hardware does incredible numbers
Oracle on September 19 reached for the business computing “cloud,” taking an unabashed shot at Salesforce.com’s winning way of selling applications as services on the Internet. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison unveiled an Elastic Computing Cloud combination of hardware and software that he said offered ten times the capacity of IBM’s biggest machine at a [...]
