Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Editorial Staff.

Companies should be aware that the networking impact of cloud computing can be severe, with staff accessing databases, applications and other material over the internet from a corporate network, or from any alternative remote location where they can get a good connection.

This report explains the effects that cloud computing can have on corporate networks and the external networks between those companies and their cloud providers, and how to avoid bottlenecks. Whilst the cloud can be used to store company data and deliver applications without the overheads of dedicated in-house servers and other hardware, the third party hosting the data or applications is often not responsible for the network links from the customer to its facilities…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Toby Wolpe.

SAP is hoping HANA in-memory technology and software as a service will make up for declining licensing revenue but its customers seem to have only a hazy idea of SAP’s SaaS strategy and one in two has no plans to move to HANA, according to a study from research firm Forrester.

Persuading customers to run core ERP applications on HANA is a key strategy for SAP, yet 52 percent of survey respondents say they’re not planning to use it, with 54 percent of them citing high costs and 37 percent saying they can’t see the benefit…

Grazed from Peak10. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud Computing is here to stay. Sixty nine percent of companies with cloud computing budgets will increase spending in 2013 and 2014. While businesses focus on efficient and agile IT infrastructure, there has been a shift away from Internal Private Clouds to Cloud Strategy/Planning, IaaS, and SaaS. This shift in attention is expected to result in a worldwide cloud computing market of $19.5 billion by 2016. Peak 10’s third data center in the Greater Atlanta region will be a valuable asset for companies looking to solidify their Cloud Computing future!

The new 75,000-square foot facility will provide customers worldwide with 24/7/365 guarded security and SSAE 16, PCI, and HIPPA compliances. Peak 10’s standard of redundant power and redundant network infrastructure will ensure the maximum uptime businesses require…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Cloud computing integration is easier than ever, according to new research that found more businesses are confident about the adoption and use of cloud services within their information infrastructures.

Less Concern

Both business and IT professionals don’t have as many concerns as they had in the past about integrating the cloud with their operations, according to Saugatuck Technology’s "2013 Global Cloud IT Adoption, Use and Benefits Survey," featured in Information Management. Half of respondents reported being concerned about security and privacy issues…

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Dan Worth.

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has said it is “inevitable” that business of all sizes will eventually move to the cloud. Writing in a blog post the Google chief said that, while only a few years ago cloud computing was greeted with doubt, it has now fully established itself as a legitimate way to run a business.

“In 2010, the suggestion that a company could move all of its employees to the cloud was often met with scepticism. People relied on desktop computers and Exchange servers because that was what they’d used in the workplace for the past two decades," he said…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Del Lunn.

With the adoption of cloud computing, and more specifically cloud storage, on the rise, companies can now easily look to reduce the cost and complexity of their applications and associated data. The economies of scale and shared infrastructure allow service providers to deliver cloud-based storage at a very low cost, compared to traditional on-premise storage platforms.

Currently, the popular cloud storage use cases tend to be infrequently accessed data scenarios such as archiving, backup, DR, and offsite data protection. But what happens when a company decides it wants to move its data and applications back to the on-premise storage platform? Del Lunn of GlassHouse Technologies talks us through the biggest challenges…

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: John Martin.

What can the experience of managing IBM mainframes teach us about designing storage for public or private cloud computing? Plenty, it turns out… In my previous post, Designing Cloud Storage? Ditch the LUN!, I pointed out the challenges of using LUNs for virtual and cloud storage environments that need to scale.

That post, and my thinking around storage management in general, were both influenced by a nine-year-old blog post by John Tyrrel: The Next Step In Virtualization. When Tyrell wrote that, the next step in virtualization was to ditch the LUN, virtualization was still pretty cutting edge. Yet, here we are, almost a decade later, and we’re still using LUNs as the storage container for most server virtualization infrastructures…

Grazed from Investors.com. Author: Reinhardt Krause.

Cloud computing services providers backing the OpenStack software standard aim to build momentum with the upcoming release of Havana, an upgrade aimed at speeding up OpenStack adoption by the biggest companies.

Due this month, Havana is expected to iron out some of the technical issues uncovered by enterprises that have been testing OpenStack in data centers. Cloud services providers rent servers and storage to enterprise customers via the Internet cloud. Open-source software licensed freely, OpenStack connects data centers to cloud services…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Datadog, the SaaS-based monitoring and data analytics platform that provides a unified view of IT infrastructure, announced today monitoring for auto-scaling Amazon Web Services (AWS), HP Cloud and OpenStack cloud environments. Modern cloud infrastructures adjust to application demand by auto-scaling. It guarantees IT resource capacity, for applications, but has also created difficulties for legacy monitoring tools which require system administrators to continuously update these systems manually.

Additionally, legacy tools have not been built to monitor collections of servers working together as a single unit. The modern cloud environment requires aggregated data analysis and automated monitoring adjustments that instantly reflects the infrastructure that is being monitored…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Carol Sliwa.

Open source, software-based OpenStack Block Storage, also known by the code name Cinder, takes a different approach from the traditional block storage products that enterprise IT shops are intimately familiar with. Ashish Nadkarni, a research director in the storage systems practice at Framingham, Mass.-based International Data Corp., likened OpenStack Block Storage to storage virtualization from vendors such as Hitachi Data Systems and IBM in its ability to provide an abstraction layer to integrate third-party arrays and pool storage resources, but in an open source format.

In this interview, Nadkarni also explained the provisioning model, hardware options and the role OpenStack Block Storage plays as part of the open source OpenStack cloud computing and management platform…