Clarifying Cloud Computing
There’s obviously a lot of confusion these days about the distinctions between public and private cloud computing, managed hosting and managed services. In fact, it’s not all uncommon for IT organizations to start investigating cloud computing only to discover what they really want is some form of managed hosting or managed service.
The reason for this comes down to concerns about data security and the nature of the application workloads that the IT organization wants to run. In an ideal security world, many IT organizations don’t want to have their applications running on multi-tenant systems where not only is security a potential issue, but where events such as “noisy virtual machine neighbors” can have unexpected consequences for the applications they have running on shared IT infrastructure…
New Center for Cloud Computing Will Impact Mobile Computing and Internet Security
As part of its research efforts to help create safer and faster computing, the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin has partnered with SunGard Availability Services to improve emerging cloud-based technologies through a new center for cloud computing research…
IBM Report Shows Cloud, Mobile, Analytics Skills in High Demand
To harness the power of the sophisticated, disruptive technologies coming to the enterprise market in the coming years, IBM research suggests that companies will place a premium on talented IT departments…Showdown: Public vs. Private Cloud
Cloud computing is an information technology revolution on par with the advent of the personal computer. Few technology fads claim to deliver so many benefits together with so much cost savings. And as the hype has grown, more and more vendors are rushing into the fray with their own "cloud" solutions. But not all clouds are created equal, and some clouds are not even really clouds at all. One of the debates that is starting to emerge in this area is "public cloud" vs. "private cloud". In this article, we will attempt to describe some of the key differences between public and private clouds, ultimately leading to the conclusion that private cloud is an oxymoron and there is only one type of cloud…
Learning Tree International Introduces a New Course: Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services
Learning Tree International /quotes/zigman/55860/quotes/nls/ltre LTRE -0.13% has announced the introduction of a new Cloud Computing course– Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services(TM). This course provides extensive hands-on experience developing cloud solutions with Amazon Web Services…
Logicworks Launches infiniCloud PowerCluster for Large-Scale Cloud Computing Clients
Logicworks today announced the launch of infiniCloud PowerCluster, a service specifically designed for large-scale cloud computing customers. infiniCloud PowerCluster, or simply "PowerCluster," is a bulk computing package that combines the company’s popular infiniCloud service with private cloud resources creating a dedicated grid of compute nodes in a Private Availability Zone…
DynamicOps Named Finalist in UP-START 2011 Cloud Awards
DynamicOps, provider of the Operations Virtualization™ platform that enables unified cloud automation and management, today announced that it has been selected as a finalist in the UP-START 2011 Cloud Awards for "Most Innovative Cloud Computing Provider." Winners will be announced at the UP 2011 Conference taking place December 5 – 6, 2011 in Mountain View, California…
SoftLayer Adds RightScale Cloud Management Platform
Cloud and managed hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies and cloud computing management company RightScale are currently developing the ability to manage and deploy SoftLayer cloud computing services through the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. This will allow users to automate and manage their toughest computing workloads utilizing the RightScale platform on SoftLayer’s cloud infrastructure…
OpenStack a year later: Popular but still bare bones
OpenStack, simply put, is a series of interrelated projects delivering components for a cloud infrastructure solution. The projects are worked on by a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing providers supporting an open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds, and the objectives are cookie-cutter cloud computing, including massive scalability and ease of use…
Implementing, serving, and using cloud storage
Grazed from The Register. Author: Editorial Staff.
Introduction Organizations of all types are trying to control costs and satisfy increasing demands at the same time—demands created by explosive data growth and ever-changing requirements. To address these challenges, storage industry professionals are turning to cloud computing and cloud storage solutions…