Cloud helps drive Dell’s growth
Cloud computing has been credited with boosting Dell’s second quarter results to $15.7 billion.
Although the figures released today only showed a one per cent rise in revenues since last year, operating income rose 54 per cent to $1.1 billion and net income shot up 63 per cent to $890 million…
Cloud Cruiser Launches Industry’s First Cloud Cost Management Solution for OpenStack
Cloud Cruiser, the leader in cloud cost management solutions and a member of the OpenStack™ community, today announced the general availability (GA) of the Cloud Cruiser cloud cost management solution for OpenStack. It features ongoing workflow tools that provide management and accounting capabilities for optimizing capex and opex costs in heterogeneous cloud computing environments…
CSC offers “on-premise private cloud”
Multinational IT services giant CSC this week launched in Australia a service which it described as private cloud computing infrastructure which could be hosted in customers’ own datacentres, giving them an additional option for migrating to the burgeoning range of infrastructure as a service platforms…
Cloud Computing Technologies Embrace AS4 Standard
Drummond Group Inc., the trusted interoperability test lab and certification body, today announced its plans to conduct its first Drummond Certified™ AS4 Interoperability test in the first quarter of 2012. In addition to enabling interoperability for technologies such as cloud computing, AS4 is an emerging Internet messaging protocol that provides a standardized method for the secure and document-agnostic exchange of B2B payloads using Web Services from any location, anywhere in the world. Drummond Group’s AS4 interoperability testing is based on a proven test methodology developed to ensure that different products can work together to seamlessly exchange information…
DARPA to help shield cloud networks from cyberattack
With cloud computing rapidly emerging as a critical Defense Department mission support platform, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is asking commercial and academic computer researchers to help build stronger cloud networks…
Cloud computing and the 4th Dimension
Grazed from Business Innovations. Author: Ray DePena.
It’s time to think about time.
According to Wikipedia, in physics, spacetime is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum. In cosmology, the concept of spacetime combines space and time to a single abstract universe. But you know we’re not here to talk about physics, cosmology, or the universe, as interesting as they may be…
New York researchers looking into clean power cloud computing
In a move to extend green IT, researchers in New York are trying to figure out how to power cloud computing networks with servers that rely on wind or solar power, according to Renewables Biz’s website…
Amazon releases secure cloud for government
Cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced AWS GovCloud, a new AWS Region designed to allow U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements…
New book lets business leaders get to grips with Cloud Computing
Business leaders left scratching their heads over how to harness the power of Cloud computing can rest easy with a new book ‘Navigating through the Cloud’ launched internationally today by Rob Livingstone Advisory.
Dubbed the practical guide to all aspects of Cloud computing, the book helps business leaders make informed strategic decisions about the benefits, challenges and risks of adopting Cloud computing solutions…
Cloud box does virtualization sans SAN
Cloud-computing appliance maker Nutanix is tackling a problem that has dogged the deployment of virtual servers and desktops: all the key hypervisors require storage area networks and centralized storage.
To overcome this limitation, Nutanix has created a virtualized controller that implements a clustered file system and embeds it in a cluster-compute appliance – the compute nodes essentially become a virtual SAN…