Server farms sprouting in Silicon Valley
The centers are sprouting up to house everything from your family photos to the growing number of applications migrating to the Internet cloud. They get their nickname from the endless racks of computer servers that fill them…
Operations: Cloud computing
Cloud computing is a remarkable phenomenon, with analysts at IDC predicting public cloud computing services to be a $73 billion market by 2015. However, many CIOs are still puzzled by the term and may not yet be familiar with how appropriate ‘the cloud’ is for certain business IT functions. Concerns over security, too, remain an issue for some…
Cloud Concerns Waning in the Manufacturing Enterprise
Plex Systems opted to deliver ERP software for manufacturers exclusively through the Software as a Service (SaaS) model in 2001. We weren’t chasing a new buzzword or a trend in the market. Instead, we were simply looking for the best means to support the continually changing needs in our customers’ businesses. The traditional approach of sending out periodic releases had failed. With SaaS we can add features constantly and our customers can implement them when they choose. They are always on the latest version of the software and don’t need to worry about costly and disruptive upgrades. We were ahead of the market.Being a pioneer meant that we had to address all the concerns the market had about relying on the Internet for mission critical systems…
Oracle Embraces Cloud to Fuel Growth Without Acquisitions
Grazed from Bloomberg News. Author: Aaron Ricadela.
Oracle Corp., the world’s second- largest software maker, aims to eschew big acquisitions and promote growth from within, relying on hardware sales and a new cloud-computing service to broaden use of its products.
After gobbling up more than 70 companies in a $40 billion buying spree, any additional large deals would have to clear an “enormous hurdle,” Oracle co-President Safra Catz said yesterday at a meeting with analysts in San Francisco…
Can an Open Cloud Compete?
A new foundation, announced today, will attempt to promote a free, "open source" alternative for cloud computing.
The OpenStack Foundation, announced at the OpenStack conference in Boston, will maintain a suite of free software tools for building and managing a cloud-computing platform. The OpenStack software suite includes software for computation, storage, networking, and system management…
Feds: Cloud Computing Doesn’t Increase Security Risk
Federal officials defended their move to adopt cloud computing, stressing steps federal agencies are taking to ensure the technology does not present greater cybersecurity risks than already exist today, on Capitol Hill Thursday.
"Our problems with security are not unique to cloud-computing systems," David McClure, associate administrator for the General Services Administration’s (GSA’s) Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, told the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies in a hearing about the security implications of the federal government’s aggressive move to the cloud…
OpenStack’s secret weapon is modularity
Although somewhat late to the market for cloud computing infrastructure, OpenStack enjoys an advantage over other cloud stacks in that it has a modular architecture, said one of the first developers of the open-source cloud software.
"This is very important. There is no one way to do OpenStack, and this is very important," said Chris Kemp, who oversaw the development of the OpenStack cloud controller when he was CIO of the NASA Ames Research Center. Kemp spoke Thursday at the OpenStack Conference in Boston…
Syntergy Unveils Distributed SharePoint Computing in the Cloud
At the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, Syntergy, Inc., a leading provider of products for enhancing Microsoft SharePoint® Products and Technologies, demonstrated its flagship product, Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint, as a cloud solution. Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction…
Cloud computing is the future of networking
Grazed from Gulf News. Author: Naushad K. Cherrayil.
Every new technology is hyped as a miracle, but cloud computing managed to fog the eyes of even experienced IT people because its whole purpose is to behave as if it is a miracle.
Resources appear magically wherever and whenever they’re needed, data travels to find the questions it needs to answer, servers pitch in with whatever work needs doing.
Cloud computing refers to networks of virtual servers that allow individuals and businesses to access information from any internet-connected device…
With great cloud comes great responsibility
There’s a good reason why everyone is talking about cloud computing. With infrastructure-as-a-service, for example, whatever computing power and storage capacity you might need is immediately available on tap. Combine this with virtualisation technology and organisations gain unprecedented flexibility to deploy virtual servers whenever and wherever they are needed…