Managing Mobile Devices Connecting To The Cloud
Grazed from Cloud Tweaks. Author: Deney Dental.
As new innovations continue to fill the technology marketplace, a shift in how business and the IT consumer alike utilize technology is shaping the face of a more connected. We are becoming more streamlined in our day to day processes, thanks largely in part to the power of mobile computing. Computing technology available off the shelf is pound-for-pound, far more powerful and as such more sustainable, than ever before. Take into consideration the power of virtual computing and it would seem that the journey is just beginning.
Like a Lightning Bolt
Mobile devices are quite powerful. Take into consideration that most large enterprises haven’t done much in the way to overhaul the average workstation, many mobile gadgets rival and often surpass the power of these nearly legacy devices. This makes the beauty of the cloud all the more appealing. Existing workstations can use these services without breaking a sweat as can mobile devices with the appropriate applications, creating a dynamic working environment…
Cloud Computing With Benefits Of PaaS Cloud Model
PaaS or Platform-as-a-Service also serves a great purpose for businesses to grow and expand virtually in the cloud environment. Moreover, the foremost thing that should be taken care of before constructing a PaaS environment is the fact that IT professionals as well as the system provider should follow a more unifying approach for both technical and operational aspects of an organization.
PaaS facility is enjoyed by two category of professionals that include end-users that are business professionals and developers and Independent Software Vendors or ISVs. Listed underneath are few advantages and benefits of PaaS that these segment of people enjoy…
Garantia Data Unveils First In-Memory NoSQL Cloud at LaunchPad 2012
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Garantia Data today announced the beta release of the first fully-automated, in-memory NoSQL cloud service offering reliable Memcached and infinitely-scalable Redis data store systems. Garantia Data is one of 11 finalists for the GigaOM Structure LaunchPad competition, which recognizes emerging startups in the cloud computing industry, and will present its new In-Memory NoSQL Cloud on stage at the event today in San Francisco, CA.
Web companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, rely on Memcached and Redis to support high-performance and rapid growth. However, Memcached lacks reliability and Redis is limited in scalability – a dataset cannot grow beyond a single Master server. In addition, both require constant operational care. Garantia Data’s breakthrough dynamic-auto-sharding technology virtualizes multiple cloud servers into an infinite pool of memory, enabling datasets to scale autonomously and continuously from gigabytes to terabytes and even petabytes based on their actual size. This zero-management service completely frees developers from dealing with nodes, clusters, server lists, configuration, scaling and failure recovery, while guaranteeing absolutely no data loss…
Cloud computing disrupts software pricing
Grazed from Financial Post. Author: Mitchell Osak.
The delivery of software is not the only thing being impacted by the rise of Cloud Computing. Moving to the Cloud is also disrupting the traditional software pricing model with the potential to dramatically change customer behavior and impact market dynamics. In the future, CC leadership will be as much about getting the pricing model right as it will be about technical excellence.
The ubiquitous cloud
With CC, software applications are delivered as a subscription-based service over the Web much like a utility delivers power over a grid. This scheme allows a user to purchase only what they need, when they need it, for as long as they need it. Not surprisingly, customers are embracing this powerful value proposition. Forrester Research estimates that over 33% of companies now get some of their software delivered as a service. The market for Cloud-based services is growing over 20% per year.
‘Instead of big suites, lightweight applications will become the norm’…
Cloud Computing: Amazon Rival Rackspace Evokes Dot-Com Era Deal
Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Editorial Staff.
Rackspace Hosting Inc. (RAX) is tempting buyers that covet a foothold in the cloud to tackle the largest U.S. Internet takeover since the dot-com bubble.
Rackspace has more than tripled since its 2008 initial public offering as it evolved into Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)’s biggest competitor in cloud computing, which allows businesses to save money on data centers by storing information on remote servers and accessing it via the Web. While the $6.1 billion company has a higher valuation relative to earnings than almost two-thirds of Internet software and e-commerce firms, it’s less than half as expensive as Amazon, according to data compiled by Bloomberg…
Enterprises to cloud: Ready or not, here we come
The number of diehards who resist the notion of running business apps in the cloud is dwindling. More than a third of end users polled recently feel that the cloud is safe for mission-critical applications, according to new research.
The 2012 Future of Cloud Survey, sponsored by North Bridge Venture Partners, shows acceptance of cloud computing for important business workloads is growing — the overall percentage of respondents feeling comfortable with this notion was actually 50 percent, but that figure included tech vendors as well as end users and since most vendors have a vested interest in cloud computing, that may skew the numbers. According to last year’s survey, in which North Bridge did not separate out the two types of respondents, just 13 percent of the aggregate respondents were comfortable with the cloud model…
Cloud creating ‘trickle-down’ effect for employees at all levels
Cloud computing is becoming less hype and just part of the norm as more business employees learn to trust it and depend on it for difficult workloads.
As GigaOM Structure 2012 unfolds in San Francisco today, GigaOM Pro has published a new report analyzing several sectors of the current cloud market about which business and IT leaders should know more.
In Cloud computing infrastructure: 2012 and beyond, GigaOM analysts discussed new developments in chip and hardware architectures, more energy efficient data centers, regulatory concerns and simplifying data analytics…
FortaTrust’s Latest Offering Enables Private Cloud Computing for as little as US$59 per month.
Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.
FortaTrust, a leading provider of dedicated and cloud computing services is pleased to announce its latest Dedicated Server offering based on SGI Rackable Servers. “This offering is designed to allow our customers to build private cloud services at costs that emphasizes the maximum possible profit in relation to end-user services”, said Chris Rivera, FortaTrust’s Director of Product Development.
The latest dedicated server offering is highlighted by several new packages:
X8a Package. A Rackable 1U Dual Quad-Core Opteron Processor with 8GB RAM, 500GB Storage, and 10TB of traffic with a monthly price of US$59.95.
C16a Package. A Rackable 1U Dual Quad-Core Opteron Processor with 16GB RAM, 1TB Storage, and 20TB of traffic with a monthly price of US$119.95
C32a Package. A Rackable 1U Dual Quad-Core Opteron Processor with 32GB RAM, 2TB Storage, and 20TB of traffic with a monthly price of US$219.95…
IBM supercomputer claims the lead on Top 500 list
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
We’re number 1! The U.S. (well IBM anyway) has taken the top slot of the semi-annual Top 500 biggest super computer list.
Sequoia, an IBM BlueGene/Q System using 1,572,864 processor cores, scored 16.32 petaflop/s on the Linpack Benchmark, the yardstick used to measure such things. The incumbent top dog, Fujitsu’s “K Computer” in Kobe, Japan, came in second with a 10.51 Pflop/s score using 705,024 SPARC64 processing cores. Another IBM BlueGene/Q system called Mira, which scored 8.15 petaflop/s using 786,432 cores, was ranked third. (See chart for the top ten or here’s the complete list.)…
How Countries Tax Cloud Computing Services
KPMG has created an online resource regarding taxing of cloud computing services by tax authorities in various countries. Called as Country Perspective on Taxing the Cloud, the online resource aims to aid providers and users of cloud services in planning their activities and operations as well as work in order gain tax benefits from the cloud computing technology. As an online tool, member firms of KPMG around the world provide insights on how cloud computing services are analyzed by tax authorities all over the world. The tax provisions of each country are examined and interpreted so that potential cloud computing taxes can be generated in order to help the public.
KPMG has studied tax provisions of the United States of America, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, Mexico, Luxembourg, Japan, Italy, Ireland, Indonesia, India, Germany, France, China, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Other countries will be included in the resource as these countries come up with clearer tax treatments for cloud computing transactions…