Category: Tools
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Printers A Security Risk?
The modern printer is one of the most versatile bits of office equipment around. New printer models can scan, copy, and print your documents in a flash. Some advanced printers can even be hooked up to the Internet and through cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Print and Hp ePrint, you can use them remotely [...]
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 [...]
Healthcare coming to The Cloud
The cloud is destined to play a much larger role in healthcare than it has so far. That will be especially true as more providers adopt e-health records and other digitized clinical systems. It will also be pushed along by storage-hungry systems like 3-D medical imaging and health information exchanges looking to provide more efficient [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Self Regulation To Greatly Benefit Cloud Computing Companies
Longhaus, a leading analyst firm, is proposing the implementation of self-regulatory controls among cloud computing companies. Its Research Director, Sam Higgins, said that this is essential for the industry to build and maintain a credible reputation. The firm came up with the proposal after discovering numerous bad practices committed by a number of cloud computing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Six Ways To Fail In The Cloud
Our 2011 InformationWeek Analytics State of Cloud Computing Survey shows a 67 percent increase in the number of companies using cloud services, up from 18 percent in February 2009 and 30 percent in October 2010. IT now has a choice: Grab ownership of what’s poised to be a core part of the enterprise technology toolset, or [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Supporting Cloud Open Source Code For Hyper-V
The software giant says its customers don’t necessarily want a single hypervisor cloud, so it’s supporting OpenStack. Cloud computing has progressed on multiple fronts over the past week, and one of the most interesting advances is the fact that Microsoft has decided to support the open source project Open Stack. OpenStack, you may remember, was [...]
CA Unveils Turnkey Cloud Computing Solution, Launches MSP Program
CA has announced a turnkey cloud computing platform for companies looking to deploy a cloud environment quickly and easily. In addition, the company is launching a managed services program around the technology, enabling MSPs to add cloud infrastructure services to their stable of offerings for their enterprise customers. CA 3Tera AppLogic is an end-to-end solution [...]
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 [...]
U.S. army takes cloud computing to Afghanistan
TAMPA — The U.S. military is taking cloud computing into rugged terrain in Afghanistan, where according to Lt. Gen. Richard Zahner, the basic hardware and software technology is being packed into mobile boxes that later this year will start to play a key role in networking for soldiers in the sky and on the ground. [...]
Cloud Computing legal considerations
Legal Issues in Cloud Computing Organizations considering using the cloud computing model should carefully consider a long list of legal issues before taking the plunge, an attorney advises. In an interview, Marilyn Lamar, a partner at Liss & Lamar, advises those considering using remotely hosted applications to: Make sure the cloud computing vendor adequately addresses [...]
India’s cloud computing market worth $1 bn in five years
India’s cloud computing market worth $1 bn in five years NEW DELHI: The country’s nascent cloud computing market, a platform where software applications and related resources can be shared online, is expected to touch USD 1 billion in the next five years, says a survey. “India’s cloud computing market will be around USD 1 billion [...]
India's cloud computing market worth $1 bn in five years
India’s cloud computing market worth $1 bn in five years NEW DELHI: The country’s nascent cloud computing market, a platform where software applications and related resources can be shared online, is expected to touch USD 1 billion in the next five years, says a survey. “India’s cloud computing market will be around USD 1 billion [...]
Setting Up A Private Cloud
As a way to exercise greater control over security and application availability, some enterprises are moving toward building private clouds. With the right approach and expertise in place, this type of setup can offer the best of both worlds: the cost-effectiveness of cloud computing and the assurance that comes with the ability to manage data [...]
Cloud Computing and HPC With Dell’s New Server
With a new range of hardware announced Thursday, Dell’s is targeting high-performance and cloud computing environments that share similar hyperscale characteristics. The company announced the PowerEdge C6105 rack-mount server, which can accommodate up to 48 processor cores in a 2U box. The server can create large clusters to run scientific or math applications, and can [...]
Cloud Computing and HPC With Dell's New Server
With a new range of hardware announced Thursday, Dell’s is targeting high-performance and cloud computing environments that share similar hyperscale characteristics. The company announced the PowerEdge C6105 rack-mount server, which can accommodate up to 48 processor cores in a 2U box. The server can create large clusters to run scientific or math applications, and can [...]
Encryption comes to the cloud…
Trend Micro is blazing a new trail with a service called SecureCloud intended to give enterprises a way to encrypt data in cloud-computing environments. SecureCloud allows you to maintain control over the encryption key used to secure data stored in the Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus or VMware vCloud cloud infrastructures. Other cloud-computing variants could be added [...]
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 [...]
The Benefits of Cloud-Based Anti-Spam Solutions
The architects of the Internet envisioned it as a medium to disseminate information. Data was accessed and often stored on hard disk for later retrieval. At the time, it was probably difficult to foresee the shift spawned by advancements in cloud computing. Many organizations have opted to embrace a hybrid cloud model where some services [...]
