Cloud Hosting-Why It Is So Popular Now?
Cloud computing is defined as the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. It is in fact a marketing term for technologies that provides computation, software, data access, and storage services. The specialty if this method is that does not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. This means that the end user need not be a computer wiz. The end-users consume service without needing to understand the component devices or infrastructure required to provide the service.
Cloud computing providers deliver the service in such a way that the applications are accessible via the internet, while the actual software and data are stored on servers at a remote location. This concept is called Remote Procedure Invocation…
Google: Digital Music Case Has Cloud Law Implications
In an effort to defend the legal basis of cloud computing, Google on Wednesday asked a New York court for permission to file an amicus curiae, or friend-of-the-court brief, in a record industry lawsuit against ReDigi, an online market that facilitates the resale of digital music files.
A letter from the law firm representing Google, Fenwick & West, warns against granting the preliminary injunction requested by plaintiff Capitol Records. "A premature decision on incomplete facts could create unintended uncertainties for the cloud computing industry," the letter states.
The court, however, denied Google’s request, on the basis that the parties in the lawsuit should be able to address the issues without assistance…
It’s war! Apple, Microsoft and Google battle it out to gain a bigger share of the cloud services marketplace.
The adoption levels of cloud computing are on the rise, driven not only by advancing technology and convenience, but also by the recent downturn in the economic environment. Saving money has been a focus of companies in recent years, and what better way to achieve this goal than to employ cost-efficient cloud computing services.
Catching the worm
Customers won in the early stages of the skirmish will remain with their vendor of choice for some time.
The cloud, with its streaming media services and promise of near limitless storage and other cost-saving functions, has become an arena of extreme interest to both the public and private sectors…
What You Should Know About Securing Your Public Cloud — But Didn’t Know to Ask
While the cloud makes it far easier to procure and deploy computing resources, it also mandates a new set of security requirements that differ from systems running in an organization’s traditional private data center.
Traditional security technologies simply don’t work in these new cloud-computing environments. Without access to the physical network, appliance-based network-scanning can’t see traffic going to and from your servers, and host-based scanning agents usually consume a tremendous amount of CPU time — a resource that customers pay for directly in the metered billing systems popular in the cloud…
Enterprise 2.0 Cloud Computing – Agile Cloud best practices
In compliment to Jon’s headline focus on Enterprise Cloud Computing, my key specialism is where this technology overlaps with social media aka ‘Enterprise 2.0′.
Although it can feel like you’re playing an intense game of Buzzword Bingo, the key way to approach new technologies like Cloud Computing is to marry them up with other hot topics, like social media and big data. Typically these aren’t entirely different domains more so simply different perspectives on to the same system, and so it’s helpful to throw them all in a pot and discuss: DevOps, IaaS, PaaS, web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, .. etc.
Agile Cloud best practices
Ultimately they all point to an evolving Internet ecosystem that favours lightweight, fast-moving, modular approaches to systems design and implementation, whereas the ‘old world’ is one of the enterprise monolith. The big bang IT project costing 10′s millions and taking years to implement…
Contain mining costs by adopting cloud computing services
Being agile in the face of unpredictable volatility will become even more important as pressure increases on mining companies to continue growing while reducing operating costs.
A solution to reducing costs is based in cloud computing, which has become a topic of interest for a variety of industries, specifically in mining, where historically, the preference has been to own and run applications onsite, says Bruce Taylor, Natural Resources Lead, Dimension Data Middle East and Africa.
Cloud computing offers the mining sector the opportunity to consolidate multiple applications by hosting in highly virtualised data centres, and to leverage economies of scale offered by multi-tenancy (ie, sharing) at levels ranging from physical infrastructure, to support personnel, right through to the software applications themselves. At the very least, the highly virtualised nature of a private cloud would ensure efficient use of underlying hardware infrastructure, while offering the business much shorter turnaround times on IT infrastructure requests…
Another Sunny Day for Cloud Company NetSuite
NetSuite Inc., the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced operating results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.
Total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $64.1 million, representing a 23% increase over the prior year. Subscription and support revenue for the fourth quarter was $54.2 million, representing 23% growth over the same period in the prior year. Total revenue for the year was $236.3 million, a year-over-year increase of 22%…
Can Cloud Computing Address Scientific Computing Requirements for DOE Research?
After a two-year study of the feasibility of cloud computing systems for meeting the ever-increasing computational needs of scientists, Department of Energy researchers have issued a report stating that the cloud computing model is useful, but should not replace the centralized supercomputing centers operated by DOE national laboratories.
Cloud computing’s ability to provide flexible, on-demand and cost-effective resources has found acceptance for enterprise applications and, as the largest funder of basic scientific research in the U.S., DOE was interested in whether this capability could translate to the scientific side. Launched in 2009, the study was carried out by computing centers at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Called Magellan, the project used similar IBM computing clusters at the two labs. Scientific applications were run on the systems, as well as on commercial cloud offerings for comparison…
Yubico and CloudPassage Bring Easy and Secure Two-Factor Authentication to Cloud Servers
Grazed from CloudPassage. Author: PR Announcement.
CloudPassage, the leading cloud server security provider, required a strong two-factor authentication mechanism for the CloudPassage Halo platform to protect access to servers in public clouds. Halo users needed a fast, effective, and reliable solution that could be deployed as quickly as Halo itself. After evaluating other authentication solutions, the company chose the YubiKey, Yubico’s unique one-time password (OTP) USB key, as the centerpiece of the Halo GhostPorts two-factor authentication solution.
CloudPassage selected the YubiKey authentication solution for its robust design without a battery and its ease of management. The USB key is a key component of Halo GhostPorts, a security feature that enables GhostPorts users to protect remote access to cloud servers with powerful, dynamic network access control using two-factor authentication.
5 issues affecting cloud service quality and performance
As the industry is slowly changing the way it serves patients, cloud computing has become a way to reduce costs, improve services and simplify management. But with the growing use of cloud service come concerns about its performance and overall quality, said Daniel Joseph Barry, vice president of marketing at Napatech.
“Cloud service providers have established the necessary competence and IT infrastructure to deliver on demands, but there is one potential Achilles heel that can present a challenge: assuring cloud service quality and performance," he said.
Barry outlined five issues affecting cloud service quality and performance…