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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…
Here is a diagram of Yahoo’s own public cloud architecture.
Here is a diagram of Yahoo’s cloud computing stack.
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.
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.
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…
Cloud technology can be harnessed to make it less profitable—or at least less lucrative—to develop and distribute run-of-the-mill malware, Eugene Kaspersky, the CEO of Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, told eWEEK. If developers are forced to add sophisticated features to develop malware that can’t be easily thwarted, it also raises the bar on who can enter the malware business.
Of the more than 20 million pieces of malware detected by Kaspersky Lab every year, a significant portion of them are considered "typical." They are often created using readily available tool kits or just re-skinned versions of existing malware.
The Community Cloud is one of the NIST Deployment Models, and is critical to the adoption of Cloud Computing, as it finds the balance between addressing customers data privacy concerns and leveraging Cloud-enabled economies of scale.
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) App Engine, the search giant’s cloud development platform, suffered a massive performance hiccup on Thursday when availability dropped and knocked some user Web sites off line.