Terremark Offers Private Clouds For Enterprises
Terremark is offering "single-tenant cloud computing," which until recently was known as dedicated hosted services–or some other name for outsourced system operation. But the times they are a changin’ and the formerly distinct lines of service providers are blurring.
Terremark will offer Enterprise Cloud, Private Edition, a cookie-cutter copy of its public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), except it has additional isolation and security features. Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, and the Savvis unit of CenturyLink have already launched versions of "private" cloud operation as an auxiliary service of the public IaaS…
Cloud Will Influence Future Datacentre And Operational Models
Continual monitoring of cloud computing trends, with regular updates to the enterprise’s cloud strategy, will be essential to avoid costly mistakes or miss market opportunities over the next few years, according to Gartner, Inc. Although the potential for cloud computing is significant, the breadth and depth of the impact, as well as the level of adoption over time, are uncertain and will require frequent review.
"Cloud computing is a major technology trend that has permeated the market over the last two years. It sets the stage for a new approach to IT that enables individuals and businesses to choose how they’ll acquire or deliver IT services, with reduced emphasis on the constraints of traditional software and hardware licensing models," said David Cearley, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "Cloud computing has a significant potential impact on every aspect of IT and how users access applications, information and business services."…
Red Hat: Amazon love ‘yes’, its own cloud ‘no’
Red Hat won’t spin up its own public cloud service but is getting serious with Amazon on OpenShift.
That’s according to Red Hat’s vice-president for cloud computing Scott Crenshaw who last week said the open-source biz has “no plans” to become a cloud provider.
Crenshaw told reporters in London that Red Hat wants to focus on areas where it believes it can “add value” – operating its own public data centre isn’t one of those areas. “We have absolutely no plans right now to become a cloud provider,” Crenshaw said.
“Red Hat wants to focus its resources in areas where can add the most value and we don’t think we add the most value in the operation of a data centre. We have hard skills in helping people do that but where we put our resources are on things that matter to developers and operations people.”…
Gartner outlines cloud computing strategy shapers
Analyst house Gartner has outlined five key trends that will shape cloud computing strategies between now and 2015.
Included in Gartner’s list is the growing importance of the hybrid cloud model and cloud-centric design. David Cearley, vice president and Gartner Fellow, who put the list together, said cloud will signal a fundamental shift in IT.
"Cloud computing is a major technology trend that has permeated the market over the last two years," he said. "It sets the stage for a new approach to IT that enables individuals and businesses to choose how they’ll acquire or deliver IT services, with reduced emphasis on the constraints of traditional software and hardware licensing models."…
Cisco Joins Forces With EMC to Advance IT Skills in Cloud, Big Data and Data Center Technologies
Cisco today announced it is joining forces with EMC to offer comprehensive technical education solutions in the areas of cloud architecture, virtualization, storage, data center networking and data science. The joint education solutions from Cisco and EMC, which also incorporate courseware from VMware, will offer advanced training and certifications to help organizations acquire the skills required to successfully architect, build, and transform their IT infrastructures, adopt cloud computing, and realize the promise of big data and data science…
Laying the Foundation for Your Cloud
The basic building block of many cloud computing environments is the virtual image. Most IT departments have been using virtualization for quite some time and are comfortable with the technology. This level of comfort is why I believe it is often overlooked as a crucial element of many cloud-based services. And trust me, what may seem like a minor oversight can have significant impacts that reverberate for the life of your cloud environment.
Put simply, poorly designed virtual images are far more likely to increase management overhead, decrease agility, and hamper an enterprise than they are to contribute to achieving the benefits we often associate with the use of cloud computing…
CETC32 and Eucalyptus Sign Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Cloud Computing Adoption in China
Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced a strategic partnership with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation No. 32 Research Institute (CETC32), one of the largest IT solutions and services providers in China. CETC32 will leverage Eucalyptus to provide integrated solutions to customers implementing cloud computing as part of their business strategy. CETC and Eucalyptus will formalize the partnership at a signing ceremony on April 6 in Shanghai.
Under the agreement, Eucalyptus’ on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform will serve as the foundation of CETC32’s Hua-Cloud, which serves the Public Security, Health and Medical, Smart Traffic, Food Security and SME markets. Based on Eucalyptus’ technology, CETC32 will develop specific features to meet local customer requirements under the Hua-Cloud brand. Eucalyptus and CETC32 will also set up a joint lab facility in Shanghai to accelerate local research and development…
Dell acquires Wyse to extend cloud computing offerings
While Dell lost some market share last year to Lenovo, they still hold a strong presence in both the desktop and server market. It looks like the company is hoping to make more inroads into the virtualization market, as Dell this morning announced the acquisition of cloud client computing company Wyse Technology.
Wyse currently offer several thin and zero cloud clients, as well as cloud management and virtualization software. Wyse also offer similar software for mobile devices to enable access to data in the cloud for businesses…
Leveraging Big Data in Real Time
After writing my last blog on the government use of cloud solutions, I attended two events and found solutions that can address the need of leveraging data analytics toimproving business outcomes. The internet of things has been a hot term for a long time and the associated challenge has always been on how to leverage this data. Challenges facing governments in collecting a wide realm of data from multiple sources has been a perpetual challenge but cloud computing and big data analytics makes it a “solvable” problem…
The Cloud is all silver lining
CLOUD computing is a buzzword that seems to be on everyone’s lips. You are forgiven if you imagine that this is some celestial data centre with cherubic technicians playing harps of code, but there’s a reason why engineers chose maths over language!
Wikipedia defines cloud computing as the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing)…