Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

WHAT:
The Cloud Computing Conference at the 2013 NAB Show is a two-day event that will demonstrate the new ways cloud-based solutions are providing increased reliability, security and collaboration for broadcasting, enterprise, military and government applications. Experts will provide a senior management review of case studies on cloud-based solutions and how they can positively impact each stage of the content distribution chain.

WHO:
Dave Fellinger, Chief Scientist, DDN

Dave will present at the session titled Cloud-Based Multimedia Storage on infrastructure approaches and the benefits to the production workflow of media/entertainment companies. In his role as chief scientist of DDN, Dave guides the company’s product and market strategy to resolve key customer challenges at acute levels of storage scalability. Dave has more than three decades of engineering experience, including film systems, ASIC design and development, GaAs semiconductor manufacture, RAID and storage systems, and video processing devices, and has architected high-performance storage systems for the world’s fastest supercomputers…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

Several converging trends, such as IT consumerization, increased number of users, more devices and a lot more data, have pushed the storage environment to a new level. Now, these new technologies aren’t only driving the cloud — they’re pushing forward all of the technologies that support cloud computing. At the epicenter of the cloud sits the data center. This is the central point where all information is gathered, and then distributed to other data centers or to the end-user.

Because of these new initiatives and new ways to deliver data, the data center has been forced to evolve to support more agile and scalable platforms. Part of the conversation revolves around unified computing systems, while the other part revolves around something even more specific: storage…

Grazed from BroadWayWorld. Author: Editorial Staff.

ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, now offers the industry’s largest virtual server instance sizes, enabling customers to run true High Performance Computing environments in the cloud for the first time. By offering variable instance sizes, which now tip the scales at 62 cores and 240GB of RAM, ProfitBricks continues to define Cloud Computing 2.0. ProfitBricks customers can now run massive computational processes at a lower cost while taking advantage of better speed and performance. It also enables users of databases and big data software to scale their virtual servers vertically rather than horizontally.

ProfitBricks can offer such large instance sizes due to the fact that its core infrastructure is built on InfiniBand technology, giving ProfitBricks infinite possibilities in how it provides virtual resources. "ProfitBricks offers up the largest instances sizes in terms of both CPU and RAM," said Kenny Li, vice president at Cloud Spectator, a cloud analyst firm. "While competitors like Amazon put up impressive looking numbers by focusing on concepts like ECUs, when it comes down to it they’re truly offering up 16 physical cores even in their Hadoop-focused instances. That’s certainly impressive, but it’s not nearly to the same degree as ProfitBricks."…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Cloud computing poses a challenge, not necessarily to well-staffed, polished and accomplished IT shops, but to those "who didn’t necessarily fully deploy the previous generation of on-premises network and systems management," noted Jeffrey Kaplan, managing director of ThinkStrategies, an IT consulting firm.

Kaplan moderated the opening day workshop, "New Tools and Techniques for Managing Hybrid Cloud," at Cloud Connect, a UBM Tech event in Santa Clara, Calif. The show started Tuesday and runs through Friday. For struggling IT staffs, hybrid cloud computing promises to deploy an additional layer of computing atop the complexity it is already trying to master, Kaplan told about 40 attendees of his half-day workshop…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Jobscience Inc., the leader in Social Relationship Management for HR, today announced that it has enabled Spin Systems to centralize its talent acquisition processes, while simultaneously moving their recruiting system to the Cloud. Spin Systems recruiters can now easily find and access information about a candidate at any point within the engagement process, from any computer at any location.

"Before deploying Jobscience Recruiting, we were using a client-based windows application that required users to go to a computer where the software was installed in order to use the application," said Ms. Carissa Braithwaite, Human Resources Manager, Spin Systems Inc. "We needed a cloud-based application and were using Salesforce.com for CRM, so we were delighted to find that Jobscience leveraged the robust Force.com Cloud platform."…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Erika Anderson.

Ten years ago today, on April 1, 2003, these things did not exist: facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin. Google had not yet gone public, and Wikipedia was in its infancy. The smartphone was just coming into the market with limited capability. The phrase “cloud computing” didn’t come into common usage till around 2006.

It’s really astonishing that all this has happened in such a short period of time. After tens of thousands of years of interacting with each other in pretty much the same way – face-to-face, or through a physical device (pictures, words, smoke signals) – we’ve suddenly become able to communicate over long distances instantaneously. This communication evolved quickly: from telegraph, to telephone, and then to computers. But it’s only over the past 10 or 15 years that our capabilities have allowed us to communicate so seamlessly that we can actually build pretty robust and 3-dimensional relationships – including work relationships – with people we never meet in person…

Grazed from StartupSmart. Author: John Russell.

In my most recent article for Bluewire Media, I argued Steve Jobs was possibly the greatest pull marketer of our time and his influence on cloud computing. It’s funny to me how a lot of the things we use today were conceptualised from the mind of one man. From touch-screen smart phones with beautiful interfaces, to desktop computers with numerous fonts – Jobs’ influence on the idea of the cloud is no different.

The only difference is that I believe if Steve Jobs was still around today to advocate the cloud we would be further along with cloud infrastructure than where we are currently. Why? Jobs commercialised these “crazy” ideas. He validated them by making them not just ideas, but reality. He made them cool…

Grazed from Quartsoft. Author: Editorial Staff.

Many of us are now not only familiar with the concept of cloud computing, but are using it in our daily personal or work lives. For those not familiar with it, cloud computing is the transfer and use of data to a location that exists virtually, versus storing and using that data on a computer’s hard drive or other physical source.

Along with its many benefits, cloud computing is also available in more than one form. Which form is chosen will depend on how you intend to use it. There are three cloud computing models, which are SaaS, IaaS and PaaS. All three types are delivered in four ways, which are publicly, privately, via a community or in a hybrid cloud…

Grazed from Aveksa. Author: PR Announcement.

Aveksa, Inc., the provider of the industry’s most comprehensive Business-Driven Identity and Access Management platform, today announced that it has expanded the deployment of its cloud-based Identity and Access Management solutions by partnering with GuidePoint Security, a leading provider of customized information security services specializing in cloud, mobile and application security.

“Aveksa’s cloud-based IAM solutions provide these enterprises with the ability to not only manage applications in the cloud, but also manage the IAM process using its SaaS offering. By doing so, these companies will have more secure and efficient cloud initiatives.” Aveksa recently announced a number of cloud-related IAM offerings, including MyAccessLive, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Identity and Access Management solution. MyAccessLive provides integrated visibility and control of both cloud and on-premise applications in a single cloud-based solution. With built-in Single Sign-On capabilities, MyAccessLive helps companies ensure that user access to all applications is easy, appropriate and properly managed…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: CJ Arlotta and Joe Panettieri.

Airlock is pitching a new Secure Cloud Platform to start-up businesses and web and app developers that are seeking an easy, secure platform for building and running WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, LAMP, Magento and Ruby on Rails applications. The big question: How can Airlock stand out in a big crowd of cloud services providers?

According to a company press release, the Secure Cloud Platform provides customers and developers with a turn-key environment that features firewalls, malware scanning, vulnerability monitoring, log monitoring, and more. CTO Austin Saucier built the system; COO Peter Lanier oversees marketing and business operations; Communications Director Amanda Lanier oversees community relations…