Grazed from CloudTimes.org.  Author: Irmee Layo.

There is a new disturbance building up in the cloud as a new wave of computing trends rise to popularity. One of them is the rising audience and user market for Docker. Here is a peek of what to expect in the complicated arena of cloud computing in 2014.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will continue to dominate and retain its title as the Apple of cloud computing. With its vast collection of web services in the forefront of the marketplace, Amazon, with its S3 and EC2 is compared with Apple that gained territory in the mobile apps and gaming industry. There is yet to be an Android of cloud computing that will challenge the position of Amazon in the cloud platform…

Grazed from TheStreet.  Author: Dana Blankenhorn.

There are two primary drivers for our current economic recovery.One is oil, specifically fracked oil and gas. I think we have overestimated its importance, because fracked wells don’t last. Their costs and depletion rates are high. They’re a bridge and not the highway.  Second is cloud, the computing revolution that began in the last decade. I think cloud is the highway, and here’s why.

Back when I started as a tech reporter in the 1980s, one theory held that computers could do just one thing at a time and could run just one operating system. When the Web was first spun, sites could go down if there was a rush of traffic to them…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Michelle Patterson.

Due to the wide variety of advances in communications and information technology, people now have high expectations regarding this different methods of communication that are coming out. A lot of people are also interested in having a look at cloud telephony and seeing how it can help their business. Using cloud telephony often means browsing through the different options and seeing what sort of package will work best in your company. Cloud computing as a whole is becoming more popular and is often seen as a much easier and safer method, though others may fear that it is easier to intercept and steal information from. There are benefits to using your own servers and to using someone else’s, so before you make the decision it is a good idea to take a look at how cloud telephony can help you.

Keeping Down the Costs

There are a lot of cloud telephone systems that actually do not bother with long-term contracts. This means that you can use the system as you need it. A lot of the systems are also scalable so the more information or data that you need from the system, the more you can purchase. This can end up saving you a considerable amount of money…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Companies are often held back by an inflexible and complex IT infrastructure that cannot keep up with the changing needs of business. These restraints result in slow deployment of critical applications and services, limited resources, poor operation management, and unpredictable system integration.

Virtualised servers and desktops hold the key to more efficient IT management. Although virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has historically been deemed too expensive, the recent surge of cloud computing offers a cost-effective, managed platform for VDI that stands to revolutionise the structure of enterprise IT. Operated in a cloud environment, it facilitates the flow of information between corporate offices and increases the productivity of employees who work remotely or from mobile enterprise devices such as smartphones, laptops, or tablet computers…

Grazed from CloudComputingPath. Author: Pravin Anchan.

Cloud Computing is one of the hottest fields offering plethora of job opportunities. Until recently, employers had no yard stick to measure the knowledge of the qualified professionals in cloud technology. As a result , many times they happen to recruit professionals who needed extra coaching to perform thier designated tasks. This involves extra cost and time to the organization. So they prefer to recruit candidates who are certified in Cloud Technology.

Sensing this need, Amazon has come up with AWS Certifications – Amazon Web Services Certification. Possessing a AWS Certification is proof of possessing adequate skill and technical knowledge for designing, deploying and managing applications on the AWS Platform…

Grazed from CNME. Author: J.D. Sartain.

Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. More than three quarters of that data will originate in the data centre, “Largely generated by storage, production and development data in a virtualised environment” and “used in activities that are virtually invisible to individuals,” the report says. An additional 7 percent, “primarily driven by data replication and software-system updates,” will flow between data centres. The remaining 17 percent of this traffic will come from end users’ multimedia and project-oriented cloud services.

Forrester infrastructure and operations analyst James Staten thinks Cisco “under-represented” end-user cloud traffic. “End users will fuel far more than 17 percent of data center traffic,” he says, “Especially if you think about public data centres hosting online and cloud services and not just enterprise data centers.”…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Jamie Hinks.

Over two thirds of companies have deployed business critical apps on an infrastructure-as-a-service [IaaS] platform as cloud usage continues to grow amongst businesses. A survey carried out by Riverbed Technology at the recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas showed that some 80 per cent of attendees have deployed an app in an IaaS cloud for the first time.

When it comes to concerns about the IaaS cloud, 90 per cent stated that reliability is the top concern with performance [88 per cent], security [86 per cent], and costs [84 per cent] trailing closely behind. “Given that reliability and performance topped the concerns for the trail-blazers at AWS re:invent, these are evidently very serious challenges,” added Dormain Drewitz, senior solutions marketing manager at Riverbed Technology…

Grazed from The Silhouette. Author: Rachel Faber.

The recent popularity of cloud email systems has some Canadian universities concerned about the level of security of their email servers. Discourse suggests that with these U.S. based companies, the U.S. government or NSA may be able to gain access to secure information and intellectual property through American cloud services such as those offered by Google and Microsoft.

Richard Godsmark, the senior manager of Security, Technology and Risk at McMaster University pointed out that this is a security concern, however it is a difficult issue to address due to a lack of information on the subject. To improve customer service, Google is attempting to sue the U.S. government, to ensure that they will have to go through actual court proceedings before accessing information. However, in order to really address Internet security, Godsmark believes that it will require a global policy on the matter. “[Information] crosses borders without any kind of passport, and so traffic is always going to end up in other countries,” said Godsmark…

Grazed from CMSReport. Author: Gil Allouche.

One of the most common concerns businesses have when they consider adopting a cloud computing solution is that they will have less control over their IT system. Thus, they worry that their data will not be secure enough, and their concern is understandable. Data breaches are expensive, both financial-wise and reputation-wise, and with attacks becoming more and more sophisticated, security has become a top priority. Luckily, adopting cloud computing does not mean that you have to give up security, but you will want to do your research when comparing options.

1. Dedicated Hardware

One important component to look at when evaluating a cloud database provider is where your data will actually be stored. Will there be a single machine that is dedicated to your data only? Knowing where your data resides is important to ensuring its safety. It is also important to find out what happens to your data should you decide to leave a particular provide or if the provider should go out of business. Be sure your contract addresses all of the possibilities so that you know for sure where your data will be at all times, and that you will have access to it…

Grazed from ProfitBricks. Author: Andy Lurie.

Remember When CPU Performance was Guaranteed? Since the early launch of the PC in the early 1980’s, CPU performance has been defined by the clock speed and front side bus of the processer. It was simple and easy to understand and Intel and AMD battled the MHz and GHz wars over the years.

Server CPU Speeds

This infographic looks at server class CPUs from the Pentium era CPUs of 1993 to today. Along the way, a lot of new technologies totally transformed the way we look at CPU performance. Beginning with the advent of X86 server virtualization in 2001, VMware and other virtualization technologies permitted multiple operating systems, and their related processes, to be run in parallel on a single CPU. Instead of relying on the old model of “one server, one application” which lead to under-utilized resources, virtual resources are dynamically applied to meet business needs without any excess “fat.”…