July 19, 2011 Off

Universities offered high-performance computing cloud via Janet

By David
Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Cliff Saran.

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.

July 19, 2011 Off

A Closer Look at Cloud-based Testing with Soasta

By David
Grazed from ReadWriteWeb.  Author: Ben Kepes.

One of the themes many of us commentators harp on about is the fact that barriers to entry for application developers have never been lower – the availability of cloud hosting, agile development methodologies, even this crazy frothy investment cycle we’re in all combine to see lots of applications being created…

July 19, 2011 Off

How to minimize cloud security risks

By David
Grazed from IT World.  Author:  Todd R. Weiss.

It’s scary out there in the cloud. Data thieves, hackers, criminals, they’re all out there scouring the Internet around the clock for ways to get into your corporate networks so they can steal data from poorly protected businesses.

So how can your enterprise safely use the cloud and what do you need to know about protecting your data and infrastructure from the bad guys? Is it even possible that your business can safely use cloud computing?

None of these are simple questions, says Ara Trembly, principal of The Tech Consultant, an IT consultancy.

July 19, 2011 Off

Intercloud as a ‘To Be’ Cloud architecture

By David
Grazed from Cloud Computing  Best Practices.  Author: Neil McEvoy.

One of the keynote topics of our forthcoming International Cloud Symposium is ‘Intercloud‘.

Like the Internet joins networks into a ‘network of networks’, so the Intercloud will do the same for computing clouds…

July 19, 2011 Off

Yahoo builds ultimate private cloud

By David
Grazed from Network World.  Author: Julie Bort.

Imagine the kind of infrastructure needed for a website fielding 1.5 million requests per second. That was one of the challenges faced by Yahoo’s Todd Papaioannou, vice president of cloud architecture.

July 18, 2011 Off

UK Survey Finds Satisfaction With Cloud Providers

By David
Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Olafur Ingthorsson

According to a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum of 450 organizations in the UK, almost half (48 percent) are already using cloud computing in some shape or form.

The survey showed high levels of satisfaction with cloud service providers, but lingering confusion about business interruption issues and the consequences of downtime.

July 18, 2011 Off

WS02 Brings Middleware to the Cloud

By David
Grazed from Server Watch.  Author: Sean M. Kerner.

Middleware servers used to be locked down to on-premise deployments, but that has now changed in the modern world of the cloud and Platform-as-a-Service.

Middleware vendor WS02 is advancing its PaaS offering this week with the release of Stratos 1.5. Statros is an open source project that is also available as service from WSO2 with Stratos Live, which is hosted on Amazon’s EC2…