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September 15, 2011 Off

EMC’s New Center Of Excellence And Cloud Data Center Powers Company’s Cloud Computing Vision

By David

Grazed from 4-Traders. Author: PR Announcement.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced its new 450,000 square foot Center of Excellence (COE) in Durham, North Carolina, which will deliver on and demonstrate the promise of cloud computing and IT as a Service (ITaaS) for EMC and its customers. In addition to housing a highly-virtualized cloud data center that supports EMC’s more than 50,000 employees around the globe, the COE includes 130,000 square feet of global research and development labs and will be a technology showcase to help EMC customers accelerate their own cloud computing and IT transformations…

September 15, 2011 Off

SAP’s cloud offering – now ready for industrial deployment

By David

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

While SAP has been variously described as both ‘investing’ and ‘seeking customer feedback’ on its cloud computing strategy to date, the company’s insistence on its ability to ‘leapfrog current software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings’ by 2014 has arguably worn a little thin by now given the general maturity of the industry…

September 15, 2011 Off

Joyent arms cloud for death match with Amazon

By David

Grazed from The Register. Author: Cade Metz.

A month after open-sourcing what it calls "the first major hypervisor" to arrive in half a decade, cloud computing pioneer Joyent has added this hypervisor to its flagship service, allowing Linux and Windows applications onto the Joyent Cloud for the first time.

The Joyent Cloud – an "infrastructure cloud" along the lines of Amazon’s EC2 – is built atop a Solaris-based operating system known as SmartOS, and as originally conceived, the OS did not include hardware virtualization. This meant the Joyent Cloud could not run applications built for Windows or Linux or any other outside operating systems…

September 15, 2011 Off

Cloud data needs to be tracked to ensure security

By David

Grazed from Computing.co.uk. Author: Derek Du Preez.

Cloud service providers should layer their infrastructure to better protect their data and alleviate security concerns, according to Imperial College London lecturer Dr Peter Pietzuch, who was speaking at a Westminster eforum event yesterday.

Pietzuch told delegates at the event, Cloud computing – security, market development and prospects for the g-cloud, that the current security model for the cloud is not transparent enough, meaning software developers that want to deploy their applications in the cloud do not have enough knowledge of that provider’s security…

September 15, 2011 Off

Arcades, holograms, cloud computing the future of gaming -Square Enix CEO

By David

Grazed from GameSpot. Author: Laura Parker.

The Tokyo Game Show kicked off today with a keynote address on the future of gaming industry from three of Japan’s leading video game industry figures. Square Enix CEO and Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association chairman Yoichi Wada, Sony Computer Entertainment worldwide studio president Shuhei Yoshida, and Sony Computer Entertainment senior vice president Yoshio Matsumoto took to the stage in the Makuhari Messe convention centre this morning to speak about evolving business models in the industry and the need to create new gaming experiences as the gaming audience continues to grow and diversify…

September 15, 2011 Off

Cloud computing service sees big increase across world this year

By David

Grazed from CenterBeam. Author: PR Announcement.

With its popularity seeing a big increase in large, small and medium companies, cloud computing, specifically software-as-a-service, has grown over 20 percent across the world this year and will continue its huge growth over the next four years, according to a new Gartner study…

September 14, 2011 Off

Cloud Computing: Zetta Raises Another $9 Million

By David

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Zetta, the three-year-old enterprise cloud storage service provider, has picked another $9 million from its backers Foundation Capital and Sigma Partners.

This third round brings total investment to $31.5 million…

September 14, 2011 Off

How to Build a Turnkey Private and Hybrid Cloud

By David

Grazed from CIO. Author: Garima Thockchom.

The hype around cloud computing is hard to ignore and as each vendor is trying to put the word "cloud" in front of all its products, enterprises are finding it extremely difficult to sift through the noise and really find which products work best specifically for their data center…

September 14, 2011 Off

Seven Signs of Cloud in the Corner Syndrome

By David

Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.

A lot of IT organizations are in a rush today to be seen doing something about cloud computing. Most of that pressure is coming from the corner office, which has become convinced that the path to lower IT costs is through the cloud…

September 14, 2011 Off

Cloud Computing Recipe: 1 Part Tech, 9 Parts Process

By David

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: Bob Deutsche.

I recently participated in a meeting of Intel’s Enterprise Board of Advisors (EBOA) Data Center Working Group. During the call, one of the members—from a very large, multi-national company headquartered in Europe—mentioned that in their experience, cloud is more a change in process than a change in technology…