Grazed from PenguinComputing. Author: PR Announcement.

Penguin Computing today announced the immediate availability of new access and management features on its public HPC cloud Penguin Computing on Demand (POD).

POD’s new sign-up automation enables immediate user access to Penguin’s on-demand infrastructure. The sign-up procedure has been reduced to a simple process: After completion of a short web-based sign-up form, new users select an operating system image for a virtual gateway node that is then provisioned instantly for launch. After a virtual gateway server has been launched users can access POD’s HPC infrastructure by submitting compute jobs through a scheduler of choice. The POD compute infrastructure itself executes HPC compute jobs directly on physical compute nodes to ensure optimal performance and enable the use of Infiniband interconnects and GPUs…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Champion Solutions Group, a Boca Raton, Fl.-based virtualization and cloud computing services provider, is building out its Microsoft cloud services through the acquisition of Charlotte, NC-based MessageOps.

MessageOps has focused its core business on being a Microsoft cloud services and utilities company. The acquisition will give Champion Solutions a larger customer base, as well as a broader solutions offering. One of the reasons for the acquisition, according to the cloud services providers, is to provide customers with a migration strategy to Microsoft cloud services, as well as build out its portfolio of cloud management tools…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jack Clark.

The growth of cloud computing will affect the economic nature of the industry as much as its technology. The huge scale at which the hardware and software of the cloud operates is having a significant affect on not only the types of technology being used in the industry, but which companies stand to benefit from its rise.

A round of interviews with executives within cloud companies, hardware vendors and analysts underlines the trend towards the growing influence of the cloud over the structure of the IT industry, and identifies the likely winners and losers among IT suppliers…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Editorial Staff.

You know when you hear someone say, “I swear, you can’t make this stuff up,” well let’s just say I had one of those moments when I came across a national survey conducted by Wakefield Research. Sadly, of the more than 1,000 adults surveyed, the majority of respondents actually believe the cloud is related to weather, pillows, drugs, and even toilet paper.

The good news, however, is that those who may not understand the cloud, do understand its economic benefits and ability to act as a catalyst for small business growth. In fact, 59 percent believe the cloud is the “workplace of the future.”…

Grazed from 4Traders. Author: Editorial Staff.

Symantec today launched its first Digital Information Index highlighting the significant impact that cloud computing and mobility are having on businesses today. The 2012 State of Information Report reveals the benefits but also growing challenges of "information sprawl" as organizations increase the level of information stored and accessed outside of the firewall.

"Businesses are undergoing a transformation unlike anything we’ve seen before. With mobile devices and cloud giving employees access to information from nearly anywhere, we’re also seeing more sensitive information living beyond the traditional IT boundaries," said Francis deSouza, group president, Enterprise Products and Services, Symantec Corp. "This is creating concern about how to best protect this information."…

Grazed from Vitual Instruments. Author: PR Announcement.

Virtual Instruments , the leader in Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments, today announced that its VirtualWisdom platform has been certified on VCETM VblockTM Systems as "VCE Vblock Ready." The VirtualWisdom platform provides real-time, system-wide visibility into the performance, utilisation and health of Vblock systems as well as broader physical, virtual and private cloud computing environments.

Vblock systems integrate leading Cisco networking and server, EMC storage and VMware cloud infrastructure technologies into a single intelligent converged infrastructure system with seamless support. This certification provides customers with the assurance that the Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom platform will interoperate with Vblock systems…

Grazed from The Next Web. Author: Nick Summers.

Only three or four years ago, mentioning the phrase ‘cloud storage’ would produce shrugs and vacant stares from most of the general public. Oh, but how times have changed. With Apple, Google and Microsoft all entering the fray with their own homegrown services, the marketplace for cloud storage has suddenly become very crowded.

SugarSync, however, has experience on its side. The company has been operating since 2008, only a year after one of its most reputable rivals, Dropbox, opened its doors and started making cloud storage a normal part of computing and daily Internet use…

Grazed from CNBC. Author: Jennifer Parker.

Cloud computing is fast becoming as ubiquitous as the clouds circling the Earth. As more and more people depend on “the cloud” to store sensitive data, they also realize it isn’t perfect —and sometimes it fails because of storm surges or human error. The fact is there will be outages. If you only have one server location, you are exposed,” said Bernard Golden, vice president at enStratus Networks, an IT consultant supporting providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Storage, and VMware. “The appropriate response is to operate switch regions,” he said.

Events such as Amazon Web Service’s outage in October, which affected its most heavily used data center in Virginia, support Golden’s claim. Some AWS customers, such as Netflix, have duplicate cloud systems. As a result, their businesses stayed up and running during the outage. Others, including popular sites like Reddit and Pinterest, temporarily went dark…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

C12G Labs announces a new release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of its widely-deployed open-source management solution for enterprise data center virtualization and private cloud computing. OpenNebulaPro integrates the most recent stable version of OpenNebula (3.8) with bugfixes, performance, and scalability patches developed by the community and by C12G for its customers and partners. OpenNebula 3.8 (codename Twin Jet), released one month ago, enhances its AWS and OCCI API implementations and provides a tighter integration with VMware and KVM.

C12G also announces the first stable release of the OpenNebulaApps, a suite of tools for users and administrators of OpenNebula to simplify and optimize cloud application management. OpenNebulaApps provides a service management layer on top of OpenNebula by configuring the software stack in the applications, managing multi-tiered applications, providing configurable services from a catalog, and building your own private market to distribute applications across several OpenNebula instances. Cloud applications consist of complex software stacks, OpenNebulaApps helps to manage their life-cycle and contributes to significantly reduce the time needed to build, distribute, and deploy cloud applications…