Cloud Creates New Focus on Infrastructure, Operations Planning
It’s been said many times that the cloud represents a fundamental shift in enterprise operations. However, many conversations revolve primarily around the myriad ways in which the cloud will broaden existing data center functionality.
The implication is that cloud providers will fall over backwards to tailor their infrastructure to suit existing enterprise needs. But that’s true only up to a point. The other side of the coin is that today’s enterprises will have to make substantial changes, both technological and operational, in order to leverage the cloud to its full potential.
Cloud computing to create one 100,000 jobs in India
As the next technology wave, cloud computing by enterprises has the potential to create about 100,000 new jobs in India, a study said Tuesday.
"Of the projected $4.5-billion total cloud computing market in India by 2015, private cloud will account for $3.5 billion, generate about 100,000 additional jobs and save about 50 percent of cost of IT operations for Indian enterprises," the study "Private Cloud Landscape in India", by Zinnov Management Consulting and global IT firm EMC Corporation, revealed…
EMC revenue grows on strength of big data, VMware
Increasing customer demand for big data technologies and cloud computing brought record financial results at EMC in the second quarter, the company reported Wednesday.
EMC’s consolidated revenue rose 20 percent to US$4.85 billion. Earnings per share increased 20 percent year over year to $0.24. The results came one day after EMC’s majority-owned subsidiary VMware reported year-over-year revenue growth of 37 percent.
Non-US CIOs, wary of PATRIOT ACT, urged to encrypt data in the cloud
CIOs the world over who do business with US organisations do so under the shadow of the US Patriot Act.
It has proven a thorn in the side of globalisation; this month members of the European Parliament demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the European Union’s Data Protection Directive and the Patriot Act. The calls come after Microsoft admitted it may be forced to hand over European customers’ data on its Cloud service to US authorities and may also be compelled by the Patriot Act to keep details of any such data transfer secret.
IBM and the analytical Cloud.
IBM has combined two of its e-commerce offerings into a single online analytics package. The IBM Coremetrics Digital Marketing Optimization Suite is the result of the merger of its Coremetrics Web analytics software with its Unica digital marketing package.
IBM acquired both firms last year to be part of IBM’s recently launched Smarter Commerce practice. It purchased Unica in August for $480 million and Coremetrics in June for an undisclosed amount. IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative is focused on helping companies more effectively market, sell and secure greater customer loyalty in the era of social networking and mobile computing.
Government Cloud – CIO Best Practices
The State of Michigan’s ‘MiCloud’ strategy is a comprehensive framework for adoption of Cloud Computing by a government agency, one that can act as a best practice blueprint for others to emulate.
Most notably they opt not to use the centralized Apps.gov store. Instead they define their own role as a full-service solution provider for their clients, and handle all the supplier negotiations and in a manner that enables cross-provider switching and avoids vendor lock-in.
Altus365 launches vSearchCloud platform for media content
Altus365, previously known as simply Altus, is introducing vSearchCloud, a cloud-based rich-media search platform for enterprises.
Basically, the vSearchCloud platform runs on a hybrid cloud infrastructure for the purpose of building multi-format applications and to be accessible from anywhere, anytime on any device, such as desktops and smartphones. (Thus, the addition of “365″ to the company’s name.)
Three little clouds and the big bad world
A few weeks back I seem to have mystified a few readers with my apparent volte-face on the topic of private cloud, when I pointed out that any public cloud provider has to run a private cloud to operate its own service or platform. To help explain my thinking, I thought it might be useful to share with you today the ancient fable of the three little clouds and the big bad world…
Building a Dynamic, Interoperable Cloud
It’s been said that virtualization is a means to an end, with the implication that "the end" is in fact the cloud.
But that’s not entirely true, considering the cloud is merely another tool in the quest for an even greater end: a fully dynamic, endlessly scalable data environment.
For most enterprises, that means a lively mix of public, private and hybrid resources, all operating as a single, integrated environment that enables users to access only the resources they need for the job at hand.
Sounds simple on paper.
Universities offered high-performance computing cloud via Janet
Universities can now run cloud-based research on Janet, the joint academic network.
The UK-based service from Logicalis is built on the IBM Power7 platform. It enables communities of researchers to pool their funding to buy a shared slice of high-performance computer (HPC) processing. The Logicalis cloud dynamically allocates the HPC pool equitably in real-time, with each institution able to use up to 100% of the pool.