Fujitsu Launches NuVola Private Cloud Platform Solution
Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc., a leading provider of IT-based business solutions, including advanced technology products, biometric security, and digital media solutions, today has announced its new private cloud computing platform named NuVolaTM. The NuVola Private Cloud Platform™ solution is an appliance-based offering built with class-leading Fujitsu server and storage products, and paired with advanced software tools and utilities that transform business critical processes by leveraging private cloud computing power, security and scalability…
5 Cloud Lessons Learned From Finance Industry Gurus
The members of the Boston branch of the Wall Street Technology Association remain wary of public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon’s EC2, but some have started building out the private cloud.
The Boston chapter held its fall meeting Thursday to discuss "Cloud Computing in Financial Services." The main part of the organization is in New York, but Boston has a growing number of members. It’s still home to a significant number of mutual funds, including Fidelity Investments; services for institutional investors, such as State Street; and asset management firms, such as EatonVance Management, all represented in the WSTA, noted meeting organizer Michael Maffattone, CTO of Harvard Management, the firm that supervises the $30 billion Harvard endowment fund…
Know Your Clouds.
Just as there are all kinds of real clouds–stratus, cirrus, cumulus–there are different types of computing clouds. The three primary cloud types are public, private, and hybrid. The most appropriate cloud for your institution will depend on several factors: What services you want to take to the cloud; your school’s comfort level from a security standpoint; the existing infrastructure you have on campus; and privacy regulations that may dictate how data are secured…
Building Cloud-Optimized Networks.
Three experts look at building cloud-optimised networks from the operational point of view, a fabric-based infrastructure point of view, and a service delivery model point of view.
Each viewpoint is valid, different, and not enough on its own. Taking the three together gives us an idea of the complexity of cloud undertakings. Building and operating cloud-optimised networks is surely not a simple exercise…
Who Coined “Cloud Computing”?
Cloud computing is one of the hottest buzzwords in technology. It appears 48 million times on the Internet. But amidst all the chatter about cloud computing there is one question that has never been answered: Who said it first?
Some accounts trace the birth of the term to just a few years ago, to 2006, when large companies such as Google and Amazon began using "cloud computing" to describe the new paradigm in which people are increasingly accessing software, computer power, and files over the Web instead of on their desktops…
BizCloud Computing Consultants Offer Data Security Tips for SMBs
The Information Security experts at BizCloud® compiled a list of tips to help SMBs keep their sensitive data secure and protect their business from financial damage that is caused by accidents or data security breaches. The number of security breaches dramatically increased in 2011, with cases such as LulzSac, Epsilon and Sony PlayStation. These massive data breaches have raised awareness among companies about the necessity to employ all preventive measures to protect their business-critical data from malicious attacks…
Evaluating Public Cloud Computing Performance with CloudHarmony
With dozens of public cloud service providers on the market, offering a wide variety of services, standards, SLAs, and options, how does an IT manager make an informed decision on which provider to use? Is it time in business? Location? Cost? Performance?…
The King of Cloud: Q&A with Marc Benioff
Back in 1999, when the first Web boom was in full swing, Marc Benioff, then an executive at Oracle, had a vision for the future of software.
Benioff’s idea was that business programs could be used directly over the Web instead of being installed on users’ machines. He quit his job and founded Salesforce.com, which began offering software for managing sales and customer relationships that was accessed only through a browser. Benioff took the company public in 2004 and saw it added to the S&P 500 in 2008. Today, he is credited as a pioneer of cloud computing and as the man who proved software "as a service" could be a big business…
The Future of IT Infrastructure
It’s not exactly a news bulletin that information technology is evolving faster than CIOs can keep up. Over the last few years, the Internet has matured, infrastructure has advanced and a tangle of new challenges has emerged. Mobile technology — including smartphones and tablets — has changed everything, and the cloud is about to change everything even more. “It’s an exciting period, but one that is fraught with risks,” observes David Nichols, partner for the Ernst & Young CIO Services Practice of North America…
Cornell University Launches On-Demand Computing Service for Researchers
The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) announced today the launch of Red Cloud, an on-demand research computing service available by subscription.
Two Red Cloud services are available. The basic offering, called “Red Cloud,” is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that runs Eucalyptus, the open source cloud computing platform. Subscribers have root access to virtual servers and virtual disks…