The Desktop Is Turning Mobile
In many ways mobile technologies are derivative of their desktop brethren. Your iPhone’s e-mail app is like the e-mail client on your desktop, for example. The mobile world is the desktop world in miniature, a "lite" version.
But the mobile world is no longer just following; it’s leading. PC sales are sagging, while sales of mobile devices—smart phones and tablets—are on the rise. As the operating systems that power these devices become the new norm, we can expect to see certain aspects of desktop and laptop operating systems start imitating the little upstarts that had initially imitated them.
Telx Launches cloudXchange
Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider in North American markets, launched its new cloudXchange connectivity platform, enabling cloud service providers to offer on-demand applications and infrastructure via a distributed, hybrid delivery model.
This delivery model increases cloud services uptime, while reducing application latency, Telx said.
Who Is Responsible for Cloud Security?
On the tails of the Sony and Amazon breaches, a recent Ponemon Institute report had some very sobering news.
The study, “Security of Cloud Computing Providers," was sponsored by CA Technologies and found the following issues involving cloud security:
Planet Earth is becoming a massive computational cloud
The cloud is becoming massive. Actually, I hate people that call it "the" cloud. It’s the cloud computing model of IT service delivery in the form of applications and data. But that’s a bit long, so we’ll stick with calling it "the" cloud.
So if my original statement holds water, just how many clouds are there right now?
CEO of Eucalyptus Systems Mårten Mickos says that his company has launched over 25,000 clouds, making it the planet’s most widely deployed software platform for on-premise (IAAS) clouds.
Reducing Latency in the Cloud
Now that more and more enterprises are starting to get some cloud experience under their belts, attention is starting to shift from getting the technology to work to building an optimal cloud experience.
The primary fear of cloud providers and their platform suppliers is that failure to reasonably duplicate traditional data center performance will eventually hamper deployment. After all, a cheaper architecture is of limited value if it ends up diminishing productivity.
Vigilent Cutting Energy From Akamai, NTT’s Data Centers
How To Know What To Safely Send To The Cloud
he dark side of the cloud’s silver lining has become apparent during the past few months. With the Amazon outage, the breach of marketing service provider Epsilon, and the attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network, companies have significant fodder for concerns over the security of the cloud.
Cloud providers need to find answers to allay these concerns. These services can be as secure as keeping data in the traditional enterprise network is, but the services are not there quite yet, says Chris Whitener, chief security strategist for Hewlett-Packard. "When we talk to customers, the first impediment to adopting cloud is worries over security," he says.
Red Hat challenges Microsoft and VMware while unveiling cloud software
Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in.